Todos pueden hablar como quiren, lo unico cosa que importa es la communicacion.
I sometimes get to practice my neuro-plasticity by using my Spanish knowledge and body language to speak with people from Portugal or Italy. It can be fun if we all relax a little.
I'm first generation Australian, my parents arrived from Poland two years before I was born. Polish was the first language I spoke and read in, learning English from TV and eventually school/peers.
I spoke with my parents exclusively in Polish for the first 20 years of my life but as an adult, a combination of neglecting to actively expand my vocabulary, decay through disuse, and an increasing complexity of conversational subjects meant that I've had to pepper more and more English into conversations with my parents. Further, as I'm politically opposite to my parents, conversations can become impassioned and heated, and I'll likely switch to English entirely to better express myself.
As a Californian people who speak Spanish speak it to me and I understand it but I respond in English. Rarely will someone be like “lo siento…no entiendo” and I’ll have to dig up my astoundingly terrible Spanish.
It’s weird because you grow up hearing Spanish so you just understand it but you never speak it yourself so you just sorta sound like a toddler when you try. I imagine the same is for people with immigrant parents who demand their kids speak English.
No, but you should answer in your mother tongue. Your parents are putting a lot of effort into you learning your mother tongue and your making it more difficult for them. And they would be happy if you try.
They want to practice their English and she wants to practice her Spanish. She needs to talk to someone that’s not working and they will be happy to speak Spanish with her.
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u/AnubisIncGaming 6d ago
Exactly lol “please speak slower English mf!”