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14 Everyday Struggles of Bilingual Latinas

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14 Everyday Struggles of Bilingual Latinas

June 15, 2018 by Alessandra Foresto

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When Someone You Just Met Says They Also Speak Your Second Language and Then They Totally Don't

That was not Spanish at all, sir, but I will be polite and keep quiet.

When You Change Languages Mid-Sentence Without Noticing

When There's a Word For Something in One Language but Not the Other

When You Have Trouble Spelling a Word

When You Accidentally Make Up a Word

When People Ask You to Help Them With Their School Paper/Homework/Email to a Foreign Friend

When Your Phone Just Doesn't Freaking Get It

When You Try to Translate a Funny Story From One Language to the Other and It Flops

When It Takes You a Second to Figure Out Someone Is Speaking to You Not in English

When You're Speaking Your Second Language on the Phone and Everyone Around You Is Not

When Someone Tries to Test You to See If You're Really Bilingual

When Your Friend Who Took One High School Semester of a Foreign Language Claims to Be Bilingual

When Someone You Just Met Says They Also Speak Your Second Language and Then They Totally Don't

When You Read Subtitles in a Movie or Show and They're Terrible

When Your Accents Get All Mixed Up and What You Say Makes Zero Sense

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