Bilingual People Will Know the Struggle

Amen, sister. Especially the lower left panel. You eat a lot of humble pie. Learning sayings to sound like a native is one of the harder parts, too, because the literal translation from/to another language usually just sounds bizarre. (Like ‘a gifted horse don’t look at the tooth’ translated from Spanish - you know what it means but saying it that way just feels weird). So please be patient when others are learning your language. People really want to do a good job and talk to you even if we sound like drunk toddlers while doing it.

I still get people telling me that I speak good Swedish. No shit, I've been here for more than half my life. But they still point out my alienness.

There are literally 3 people on the planet that i would let have some of my internal organs just for a one night date. No pre-sets, no rules. Just hey dinner and you get a kidney or a liver. This is one of my three.

Try talking in my shoes for one mile...
Did anyone else get that Al Bundy the shoe salesman tried to interject...
Talking...Walking...

We don't translate, though. We think and speak directly in the language. Translating would take so freaking long!

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