I’m gonna tell you a story about languages.
Languages are HARD. The older you get the harder it seems and i’m not preciselly a teenager lulz.
So, mi native language is spanish, thankfully cause i think learning spanish must be hell.
I learned english by myself as a teenager cause i used to be really good at languages, so i only needed the (really) basic things i learned in highschool, vocabulary i got while playing videogames (i used to play up to 8h when i was young) and a LOT of music in english, cause i personally don’t like music in spanish. So of course i still make some mistakes 😛
I went to italian, chinese and latin lessons but due to the lack of practice this knowledge died. I used to be specially good in italian but now i can only read… and i remember the numbers (?)
Now i started learning German quite lightly as soon as i got my first job, cause german in my country is not only hard, is also expensive so i had to wait, but i was interested on it since i was 16 and got introduced to German metal music.
After 2 years of learning German occasionally on saturdays i’m here in Germany on the B1 level. Enough to live but still could be better. So… here is where the Dengleñol starts. Sometimes i forget words in german so i say it in english, other times i forget them even in english! and sometimes i want to use a word that i only know in spanish so i have to ask.
I think learning a new language makes you socialize you want it or not, cause sometimes you end up low-key even explaining that this new language is the 3rd you know so it gets mixed… and most people either find it funny, interesting or just don’t mind 🙂
Germans are really patient, at least in the west and the north, but i will update further about this later 🙂