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I am bilingual. My phrases switch to the language I learned them on very easily. Computer terms are almost always English. A lot of idioms I learned in my ad
by tehlike 1y ago
I am bilingual.
My phrases switch to the language I learned them on very easily.
Computer terms are almost always English.
A lot of idioms I learned in my adult life are going to stay English, even if a Turkish equivalent exists and I later learned about them.
- BrandoElFollito 1y agoI am bilingual as well, my children are trilingual. I find out that it is way easier for me to translate to or from English (not a native speaker) to any of the languages I am bilingual in, than between these languages. It is very hard for me to listen to one, and speak the other.
- tehlike 1y agoI struggle to fluently translate childrens books from English to Turkish, but it wouldn't be too hard to do Turkish to English, I imagine. There would be loss of some nuance, but general meaning would transfer.
- BrandoElFollito 1y agoIn my case this is more some kind of compartmentalization. When I speak on of my two languages, I can translate to English because English is a learned one. Same if I want to translate to German (that I speak just a tiny bit). It doesn't work that well between them. I can of course fluently translate but the words are not going to be really great. I cannot really understand this.