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Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby glassgut » Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:18 pm

So yeah I'm bilingual (Finnish and English) and sometimes I mix words and sentences up.
Most often I mix up ''close'' and ''turn off''. I can't count how many times I have asked my boyfriend to turn off the door and window....
What languages do you speak and what are the phrases/words you mix up??
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby miissingyou » Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:06 am

TURN OFF THE DOOR omg thats amazing
japanese here (though i'm not fluent)
i have a terrible habit of saying that someone has a big mouth rather than saying they're speaking rather loudly o_o'
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby Nnnnani? » Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:10 am

Sometimes when I'm speaking Russian and I don't know what a word is I'll unintentionally use a Spanish word. Same thing the other way around : ((
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby liwibird » Thu Oct 15, 2020 7:09 am

I speak polish and english. There's no specific phrases I mess up but sometimes mix them together accidently when my brain goes "haha funny thing, what language are we speaking?????"
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby mimikiti » Mon Dec 21, 2020 8:36 pm

A german - polish speaker here.
I dont exactly mix up sentences, its more like my brain messes up which language is going on.
Like i forgett words by accident and my brain just puts in the ord of the other language.
Yesterad my brain randomly confused languages with the word "but"

But also, even if its not my mother language, my brain starts to mess up all languages i know.
watch me start counting i Korean and suddenly continue in japanese or saying something easy in spanish and ending up in French, its a big big mess xD
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby larn » Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:57 am

Same with the close and turn off! In Mandarin chinese the word for “turn off” is “close.”

I always catch myself saying “close the light” haha!
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby kylie..<3 » Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:33 am

with Portuguese, I always end up saying I have (this many) years old instead of I am (this many) years old ahhahaah
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby aveticus » Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:35 am

I speak English and German (though I'm not fluent) and somehow I always mix up the words for child & the word for boy, even though they're not very similar.
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby Duplix » Sat Feb 20, 2021 4:37 am

      not a phrase but, my sibling speaks 3 languages (English, Danish and German- super proud of them!) and spends the majority of their time speaking danish! so now when speaking English- they have an american accent! haha

      (i routinely write Germany as Deutschland though! silly brain)
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Re: Bilingual people what are phrases you get mixed up?

Postby little sunshine » Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:27 am

I often mix up "overly" and "over" in english
I feel like they both are the same,
but somehow they're viewed differently??
for example - what would you say?
"I'm overly tired" or "I'm over tired"

many people point it out lol
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