Unfortunately this is not because I am so good at French now that it has taken over as my main language. No no. My French is still much worse than my English, and I probably speak in French less than half the time. However, I find myself incapable of structuring English sentences, making spell right (wtf I just reread that) and pronouncing things in an actual way. I put this down to a mixture of the following factors:
a) Pretty much all my friends here speak English, and no two have the same accent so I am forgetting how to use my own accent and say words properly
b) Because most of my friends aren’t French, we speak in a retarded mixture of English and French and whatever other language they happen to speak, so when I try to stick to just English my head collapses
c) I have to use 3 different alphabets. Not only that, but the letters they consist of overlap allowing for much confusion. In class on Monday I had to read out some Greek written in the Greek alphabet. I don’t speak Greek. Then I had to read some French written in the Greek alphabet. In class on Tuesday I had to read some French written in the International Phonetic Alphabet and translate it into the Roman alphabet, before reading some Italian written in IPA and having to guess what language it was. Then I had to read out some English in IPA for a class demo, after listening to our teacher who isn’t from here say it in whatever accent he has. Sure, this doesn’t sound that hard, but when you’ve only had three hours of sleep and you’re trying to remember which one of the three different sounds “z” could have is applicable your brain goes a bit stupid. Z could have is applicable. See what I mean?
d) In case you didn’t know, I do linguistics which means I think about language too much and forget how to use it. Like when you think about the act of walking and it makes you fall over. No?
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That's okay, I could never English goodly to begin with.
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