• postnataldrip@lemmy.world
    40·
    2 个月前

    English is my native language. I have on more than one occasion gone blank trying to think of a word, only to remember it in Japanese. Which is particularly amusing when it’s the kana-ised version of the English word I had forgotten.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    23·
    2 个月前

    Yes, especially with tech-words. Hell, I even don’t know what for example “exploit” means in my native language.

    • 87Six@lemmy.zip
      13·
      2 个月前

      My thoughts are in English instead of Romanian and it’s terrfying

      I’ve been colonized

      • wieson@feddit.org
        2·
        2 个月前

        Dem suc de mere fromos

        (It’s probably spelt wrongly, but that’s all I remember)

        • 87Six@lemmy.zip
          2·
          2 个月前

          I think you meant

          Bem suc de mere frumos.

          We’re drinking some beautiful apple juice.

          • wieson@feddit.org
            2·
            2 个月前

            I actually wanted to say: please give me the apple juice. I only learnt it by hearing, not by reading. Dâ-mi

            • 87Six@lemmy.zip
              2·
              2 个月前

              Ahh

              That is “Te rog, dă-mi sucul de mere.”

              Also, please do yourself a favor and don’t learn Romanian. Our genders are fucked up (the language ones) same as our…well a lot of other things.

      • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 个月前

        My thoughts depend on what I’m thinking about

        If I’m talking/writing in English I’m obviously thinking in English

        Same with Polish

        However, I tend to think of programming and computing stuff in English and maths stuff in Polish

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    15·
    2 个月前

    I speak three languages and whenever I’m with someone that speaks the same languages, I’ll revert to a mix of grammar and vocabulary that covers all three languages. I’ll continuously pick the next word in the language that comes to mind first and I can literally switch language 5-10 times in a single sentence

    Everyone hearing me talk in moments like that thinks I’m insane, but it works perfectly

  • germtm.@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 个月前

    ever since my brain got hard-wired to think in English despite it not being my native language.

  • rose56@lemmy.zip
    10·
    2 个月前

    Yes it happens, especially when you speak 3 languages. A year ago, I was mixing 2 languages by mistake and people where like “what???”. Lol

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 个月前

      This always reminds me of our karate master back when I was going to trainings. One day his instruction was “one mawate zurück”. We don’t normally speak any of these languages.

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 个月前

    All the fucking time. Now I’m at this phase of learning my third language, where it starts to sip in. I can’t sprechen normally anymore, send help пожалуйста.

  • cybernihongo@reddthat.com
    5·
    2 个月前

    All. The. Time.

    I’m not a very good speaker despite how well I write English (I just sound stiff and sometimes I just freeze up when I forget a word), but I know it better than my native language. Once I wanted to describe deer in a phone call, but I forgot what the word was in the native language… Cue me being clueless for a good few minutes before I figured it out.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    2·
    2 个月前

    I totally mistook that lightbulb in the background for a bowling pin for some reason on first glance.