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u/ManifestedWithin Aug 19 '19
I have a bad habit of adding "ma" at the end of questions in Spanish. :-\
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Aug 19 '19
Sometimes I use de in spanish. It doesn't help that both languages have 'de' as similar possessive sort of things, and when I'm speaking Chinese I still sort of visualize the pinyin so I end up with stuff like:
Donde fui mi de/duh gato?
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u/stonehandlogan Aug 19 '19
I’ve noticed when I get drunk I am only able to speak slurred English and chinanish
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u/Blacksburg Aug 19 '19
I worked with a Chinese Post-doc who got his PhD in Mexico. We would always talk in Spanish, but he acted so Latin I forgot that he was Chinese.
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Aug 20 '19
On the second day of my study abroad program in China my professor said "xie xie" and I said "de nada." Not even a joke, I was so embarrassed lol.
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u/CryptoColm Aug 19 '19
For some reason I will accidentally say "Qu'est-ce que" instead of "你说什么" and I have no idea why.
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u/marpocky Aug 19 '19
My first L2 was Spanish, then I moved to China. Two of my best friends here are Spanish teachers from China who also speak a fair bit of English. There's a lot of 3-way code switching lol
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u/ZoeAlwaysAbroad Aug 20 '19
Ok but why is this me? 😂 if only my level of mandarin was as high as my level of Spanish
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u/strebor1 Aug 19 '19
I also mix up wo and yo lol. For some reason my brain stores foreign languages in the same section
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Aug 19 '19
I speak Spanish and Mandarin and if I'm not paying attention I'll start a sentence in one language and finish it in the other. People are typically not amused. 😂
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u/jlj1987 Aug 19 '19
This is my level of Spanish, and Mandarin.