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if you have a multilingual family, do you speak all their languages or just one/some? (feddit.cl)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by RicoSuave@feddit.cl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i know of some bi/multilingual families in the us who'd talk to each other in their native tongue when they didn't want the kids to know what they were saying.

i speak my dad's native spanish as well as dad's learned portuguese, but i don't speak the polish or norwegian from the other side of mom's family. (she's also latina but doesn't natively speak spanish)

however, i'm learning the two i don't know, and practicing polish (the language my mom does know) with her

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[–] RandomUser@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

When I was working in Switzerland briefly, people would speak Swiss, German, French and Italian as well as English all in the same breath. I was told they used whatever word was easiest at the time.

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Swiss?

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I guess it should say "Swiss German and German", that's the usual combination in Switzerland.

[–] RandomUser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Long day!

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah they mean swiss german because it's not understandable to common hochdeutsch speaker whereas the french has barely any difference. Don't know about the rest (italian?).

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