Although I communicate textually in English pretty much every day, all day, and do still tend to think that language, in the six years since I was last in the UK, significant opportunities to speak English, at least with other native speakers, have dried up a bit...and when they do occur — such as in Belize last September — the conversation typically commences for me with a worrying sensation of impending jaw malfunction.
My wife only speaks to my grandchildren in Spanish, their parents and grandparents find the resulting mixture of speech interesting.
ReplyDeleteI do drop into Spanglish occasionally. Not a problem in Belize of course.
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