Most bilinguals are familiar with this situation. Being far from your country and your original language gives the impression of no longer knowing how to speak it or of being completely rusty. Brice is a 45-year-old French executive who has lived in Spain for 24 years. Married to a Spanish woman, he works in a financing company in Madrid.
“When I write emails in Spanish, I have no doubts, but when it comes to writing in French, I sometimes go through the proofreader
,” he admits, adding that he is more at ease. comfortable in Spanish as in French in his professional life.
“As I only speak French with family, I sometimes get stuck on certain words that I look for in French during professional meetings with France, sometimes I do literal translations into Spanish
,” he says. he. When he returns to the country, the French take him for a native of the country of Cervantes with his accent. And congratulate him on his French.
“Often, my mother corrects me by telling me…
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