I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master’s abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish
As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever
I speak a lot of English and do so with a Swedish accent. Since we’re trained on British English in school and mostly exposed to American English otherwise, it tends to be a mashed up version of English too.
I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible
It’s such an immigrant thing to do. At this point my conversations with my partner almost always have English and German mixed in. But even back in my country, I’d use a lot of English because I couldn’t remember the word in my language or it was simply easier to do so in English, lol.
I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master’s abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish
As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever
I speak a lot of English and do so with a Swedish accent. Since we’re trained on British English in school and mostly exposed to American English otherwise, it tends to be a mashed up version of English too.
I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible
Same here, but when I manage it, it comes out in a thick Spanish accent that I usually don’t have. 😅
Yeah the funny and notable part about it is the fact that the English word isn’t said with a Spanish accent.
It’s such an immigrant thing to do. At this point my conversations with my partner almost always have English and German mixed in. But even back in my country, I’d use a lot of English because I couldn’t remember the word in my language or it was simply easier to do so in English, lol.