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
Me and my wife both could speak 4 languages when we met, the first 3 years since we met, our conversation were so bad ‘grammatically’ we even had a big laugh when in a single paragraph I switched languages 6 times amog the 4 languages. I think as time went on we at least brought it down to 2 languages between us 95% of the time, but we also learned two more languages now and we have 6 languages common between us.
There is a big upside now, we always have a backup language if we wanna talk private things among people.
(p.s. Most of both of our families are trilingual, with family youth at least understanding all 4 common languages, so it was hard to keep conversations private in family setting that forced us to learn 5th language, and 6th we had to learn when I moved to my current country)
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
Me and my wife both could speak 4 languages when we met, the first 3 years since we met, our conversation were so bad ‘grammatically’ we even had a big laugh when in a single paragraph I switched languages 6 times amog the 4 languages. I think as time went on we at least brought it down to 2 languages between us 95% of the time, but we also learned two more languages now and we have 6 languages common between us.
There is a big upside now, we always have a backup language if we wanna talk private things among people. (p.s. Most of both of our families are trilingual, with family youth at least understanding all 4 common languages, so it was hard to keep conversations private in family setting that forced us to learn 5th language, and 6th we had to learn when I moved to my current country)