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  • Nairn0

    Any duel-language parents here?

    If so, I'm curious to know how you dealt with describing two (+) languages alongside each other.

    My Italian is terrible, but helping her is helping me too. My Italian vocabulary for entirely random animals is quite commendable.

    I try and describe every new concept in ‘Mamma's Language’ and ‘Daddy's Language’.

    • She's 26.Nairn
    • lol ‘duel-language’.

      Fuck you, Freud.
      Nairn
    • my father speaks racist and his wife is fluent in ignorant. i cry a lot. i hope that helps.imbecile
    • hahahahaNairn
    • I'm portuguese, she's german. I speak portuguese with our daughter. she speaks german. we speak to each other daily stuff in german. serious stuff in englishoey_oey
    • Mom makes some exceptions using portuguese words that my parents used with our daughter.oey_oey
    • Why "Serous stuff in English"?
      I'm so weirded out when I hear couples from different places here in LDN, speaking Enlish with each other.
      Nairn
    • I mean,it;s lovely - linga franca and all that - but it feels odd for me to place myself in that dynamic.Nairn
    • I speak enough Spanish to get along in a conversation, but right now we are focusing on French, which my wife speaks. She's so young she just likes learning.ben_
    • @Nairn: because of three reasons 1) fairness cause it's for both a neutral language and my German which is still good is not enough to be at her leveloey_oey
    • cause she's finishing her PhD in German Studies and her job is in the Literature institute at the local University.oey_oey
    • 2) My English is sounding more and more like Arnold 3) She wants to better her English and the extra reason: we need a secret language cause of our kid ;-)oey_oey

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