❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA

Gotta go digging through the rummage.

— Silvina Ocampo

(via thatswhywelovegermany)

Also not the US but this left quite an impact on me: I have had a peruvian guy tell me that he was jealous “of all the languages you Europeans learn” and that he also wanted to be multilingual but when I asked him if he also spoke Quechua next to Spanish, he said “yes but that doesn’t count” because people around him treated it like a “lesser” language all the time

I’m caught between “when the f will I use this??” and “accurate”

Keep reading

- you know the word in second language but not first - your notes sometimes are in both languages at once. some words are quicker to write than their equivalents - phone autocorrects to wrong language - the words that are the same but slightly different in your two languages are always spelled the wrong way. no matter what. - certain memories only available in one language - music genres?? u like maybe alternative and pop music in your first language but like rap and musical theatre in your second - u know what verb tenses are called in your second language but not in your first - saying bullshit like “close the lights please” because it’s idiomatically correct but not in english

I made this survey to find out about why people decide to learn foreign languages. It’s for a paper I need to write so if some of you could fill it out that’d be great, reblogs are much appreciated!

dude i hope you know that “je suis le pain” translates into “i am the bread”