God bilingual people are so cool. I’d love to be bilingual someday.
“Aren’t you alrea–” Shut the fuck up I’ve never spoken any language in my life
The thing people don’t understand is that mathematically speaking, being slightly bilingual actually makes you LESS bilingual than people who are monolingual. I’ve created a helpful chart to assist:
This is known as the I’d Rather Die Than Attempt to Converse With A Native Speaker paradox, and it has befuddled scholars for centuries
#that one post with the thing #thinking about Sofi’s comment here while listening to Swahili-language music with one of my Indian coworkers #language #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 