hear people drifting from one language into another during conversation? I'm working the front desk and there's this lady that will speak 90% of her phone conversation in spanish and then randomly say a phrase or sentence in english here and there. It's kind of strange to listen to. :hsugh:

 

Yeah Toms mom is very german and speaks to Toms oma and opa in german most of the time but speaks english every so often. Kinda cool though haha.

 

I do that, I'll speak in Cebuano, but I forgot some of the words so I'll repalce it with English :hs:

 

my friends do that with hmong and english. my hmong sucks. :hs:

 

I took spanish for 1 semester in Jr High and my teacher would go from English to Spanish to French to German to Japanese to a combination of all of them.
We would tell her and she'd just laugh and say her mind slips from language to language. The next year she was taken to the funny farm.

 

my friends do it all the time, its weird

 

my mom does it a lot... annoying, as i suck with mandarin.

 

My parents and grandparents did it with English/Polish and English/German

I even do it now and then when I am in Montreal but with French/English

 

Sometimes when you hear that it's because there isn't a saying in their language that is similar to the English they use.

I will drift from English to Spanish, Russian, or Arabic sometimes h:

 

I do it all the time.