Do persons who know multiple languages get confused as to when speaking, and say words from another language, like you're speaking French and then blurt out something in English by accident?
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jaek
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Si, we do. But mainly only when speaking the second language.(at least for me)
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I have spoken to people who know heaaaaaps of languages, and apparently when they want to speak a language, their whole thinking switches to that language so they don't get confused. They dpn't translate words in their head, they literally change the language they think in.
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Yes I speak French and English at work all the time. If I speak French I'm fine, if I speak English I'm fine. But when I have to speak both I get really mixed up and start putting both languages together and I get really confused, as do the people I am talking to.
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When I'm really angry and speaking in English, French words will accidentally pop up for some reason. But when I'm angry and speaking in French, all the swear words I use are in English, because they sound more offensive and direct then most of the French ones. Otherwise though I don't get confused that much, but I often forget words in either language and have to think of them for a bit, or just say the opposite language one if I can't come up with it.
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LOL! Yeah, somtimes. It doesn't happen as often as you would imagine, but it does happen. I might use an English word by mistake while I'm speaking Italian or vice-versa OR I may just suddenly start speaking English to an Italian. That will sometimes happens if I was thinking in English at that moment rather than in Italian.
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my friends and i have all been taking spanish for... 7 years now, and we'll mix in spanish with english a veces (sometimes) either purposely or accidently
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My cousin was Airforce counter-espionage back in the 70's. He had been given such an intense course in Russian that when he got a chance to write home his letters would go from English into Russian then back to English. He was stationed behind the lines in Russia for a while and was also used to translate intercepted messages.
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I speak Russian and English, and sometimes it happens to me.
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