I do not mind at all, I could spend half a day with curious HNers talking about the topic :) My mother being spanish and my father basque, I grew up with both

I do not mind at all, I could spend half a day with curious HNers talking about the topic :) My mother being spanish and my father basque, I grew up with both of them at home. My mother's mother was genuinely worried with my then toddler's brain being unable to cope with both languages at the same time, as I am told I did not begin speaking until almost my third birthday. At that point I started speaking both indistinctly. Nevertheless, my heart beats in Euskara, because this is where I grew up. When it comes to thinking, I believe my brain does not directly parse thoughts into language unless preparing to express them verbally or writing. The struggle comes when talking to a group of people with part of them not being proficient in basque; even if they understand it perfectly, the tendency is to switch to spanish out of politeness with those who do not speak it fluently; nowadays only the senior denizens of the most rural and small villages may find harder to express themselves in spanish than in basque. The recent Euskaraldia* event, where you could choose among 3 pins to wear during 11 days expressing that you could either talk Euskara, understand Euskara, or just did not mind not understanding it but having it spoken around you, has helped a lot when it comes to these everyday situations. When it comes to preferring a mother tongue more than the other, spanish seems to be doing fine in the languages ranking, as opposed to Euskara; the cool part of that being my SO and myself enjoy using "that funny language" especially when abroad so no one understands us. Very occasionally we meet a fellow basque or someone who recognizes the language and at least a nice chat ensues. Additionally most people here will open their homes to every foreigner who shows the tiniest bit of interest in our language or culture. As a finishing fact, there is actually no adjective for basque (citizenship) in the basque language, there is just "euskaldun" (euskara + "-dun" suffix), meaning possessor/holder of basque language. * https://www.hellabasque.org/euskaraldia/ https://www.hellabasque.org/euskaraldia/