i know of some bi/multilingual families in the us who’d talk to each other in their native tongue when they didn’t want the kids to know what they were saying.

i speak my dad’s native spanish as well as dad’s learned portuguese, but i don’t speak the polish or norwegian from the other side of mom’s family. (she’s also latina but doesn’t natively speak spanish)

however, i’m learning the two i don’t know, and practicing polish (the language my mom does know) with her

  • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    1 年前

    I went to a Sikh wedding once, and spent the day hanging about with a bunch of the guests, all of whom were British or Indian. I spent the whole time amazed that they’d seamlessly switch between English and Hindi, apparently without noticing.

    • rico (he/him)@feddit.clOP
      5·
      1 年前

      code switching is awesome. sometimes i’ll hear bilingual hispanic people being like “oh, by the way, ya has visto squid game (have you seen squid game yet)? it’s so good”