• affiliate@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    10 days ago

    it’s actually impossible to be bilingual because you can only ever be speaking at most one language at a time

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      10 days ago

      Language hybrids and creoles exist, you could make an argument that those are “speaking two languages at the same time”

      Bilingual people do sometimes speak in a mixture of multiple languages to people who speak the same languages