Name: Anonymous 2010-08-27 7:57
Do you sometimes feel like you know another language better than your mother tongue?
For years it has been happening to me that sometimes during a conversation, an English word comes to my mind that I'd like to use but I can't think of a good equivalent in my mother tongue. So if the person I'm speaking to is adept of the English language, I'll just use the word. Otherwise I stagger, trying to think of a translation or how to paraphrase what I want to say. It's really awkward, people sometimes think I'm mocking them or that I'm a retard.
For years it has been happening to me that sometimes during a conversation, an English word comes to my mind that I'd like to use but I can't think of a good equivalent in my mother tongue. So if the person I'm speaking to is adept of the English language, I'll just use the word. Otherwise I stagger, trying to think of a translation or how to paraphrase what I want to say. It's really awkward, people sometimes think I'm mocking them or that I'm a retard.