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matjam  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

I have japanese and tagalog and bisayan words sprinkled throughout my thought process. I wasn't raised bilingual, but I lived in other countries for a while and thats what happened.

I especially find some of the curses come to my mind quickly before the english ones.





Hertha  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Had to Google those. So the Philippines? Out of curiosity, how comfortable do you feel in those languages, and assuming you learned them pretty much simultaneously do you feel it's hard to distinguish between them?

matjam  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Japanese when I was there I was pretty good conversationally. Crap doing anything formal. The language gets too complicated.

Tagalog/Bisaya, not there long enough to get a good handle on the vocab but it's pretty straight forward.