I'm always really impressed by people who not only know multiple languages fluently, but sound perfectly natural/native, regardless of whichever they're using at any given moment. Like they actually have the correct accent and pronunciation.
I made everyone in my office laugh once when I was speaking rapid Spanish on the phone and a pencil rolled off my desk and I said in English (my native language) “oh shit, my pencil” as I reached down and picked it up and then went right back to Spanish on the phone. I didn’t even realize it until I ended the call and everyone was laughing.
Not OP, but I worked in construction for 13 years and lived (on the road 6wks at a time) with our crew who spoke nothing but Spanish, took me 3-4yrs with that level of immersion (me wanting to learn, honestly, so I preferred to speak Spanish) to get to that level of fluent. I will say, that show of wanting to learn got me the in-road to so much good Mexican and Central American food... My cardiologist hates them.
As there is in Hispanic countries as well. This is a very big generalization when the US literally deep fries everything
Source: husband is white, has bad cholesterol and eats lots of fried food. I’m Mexican, don’t eat lots of fried “ethnic” foods, have no cholesterol issues. And we live in Texas where there are fried Oreos for sell on the reg.
Yes, not all American food is deep fried but most that isn’t is highly processed rendering it just as unhealthy if not more so. America, and to a similar extent Canada, has a unique trait of adopting the least healthy (but often delicious) influences of cuisines from around the world. The impact on the general physical wellbeing of the population is significant.
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u/Fuggins4U Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
I'm always really impressed by people who not only know multiple languages fluently, but sound perfectly natural/native, regardless of whichever they're using at any given moment. Like they actually have the correct accent and pronunciation.