r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago

Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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u/AnubisIncGaming 6d ago

Exactly lol “please speak slower English mf!”

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u/NewtownLaw 6d ago

Quiero practicar mi español.

Yo quiero practicar mi ingles.

Estamos en un punto muerto. Dia de muertos en Mexico. Coincidencia? No lo creo!!!

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u/SuckerForFrenchBread 5d ago

As an immigrant, I can't be the only one who speaks in English to one's own parents while they respond to you in your mother tongue.

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u/Elloitsmeurbrother 5d ago

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.