Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”īilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over.

Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.

He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “ Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that.

Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word.

Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.

Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives.

Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah…. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language.

Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English.

Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity. Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English.Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING RODĪs someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:

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