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Are you a different person when speaking in your native language?

vs one of your acquired ones?

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  • Tito
    4 years ago
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    I'm the same akward guy in English and Spanish. But I feel I'm more funny in Spanish. I don't know, I just feel like I'm better at making jokes in Spanish than English. But it my be also because I don't have friends to joke around in school(were everyone speakers English). But at work (Mexican restaurant, everyone loves me).. I have lived 10 years in the U.S and 8 in Mexico so I speak them perfectly.

  • the internet
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Yes, when I speak in my native language I am a nordic king. When I speak latin I am caligula, when I speak spanish I am Juan Christobal Colon, when I speak spanish I am Emmily (who never learned spanish).

    Seriously, the idea of what you ask is so nonsensical that I don't even

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    It has been said that that our personality changes when switching language.

    I myself am a polyglot and when I take a step back to observe myself, I think that might be right.

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