Bilingual people, how do you it!!!
How do you sustain a full conversation in English….
Growing up in a bilingual (English/Spanish) city with bilingual friends really messed me up for interacting with people outside my city.
I have recently made monolingual English speaking friends and I CAN’T DO IT MAN!
Fuck, staying home for college+COVID really did make me reliant on Spanish/Spanglish
I can text/write in English with no problems… but SPEAK… over for me! I didn’t even speak this much Spanglish growing up!!! I’m sure I did speak more than I realized, but fuck, having casual conversations fully in English is rough. I totally have the vocab(honestly my English is better than Spanish), it’s just, I slip into assuming people know Spanish when they don’t. And then my brain’s already in Spanglish mode, which is hard to turn off. I’ve started responding to my teachers in Spanish when asking questions or answering small things, WHICH I CERTAINLY DIDN’T DO BEFORE. So uh yah… speaking hard, props to all my multilingual folks out there.