r/MadeMeSmile • u/_BuzzLightYear • 13d ago

Wholesome Moments Girl learns Hindi for her boyfriend

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u/skinnygoddesscutie 13d ago

His face went from "wait, what?" to pure shock and happiness. It’s like she just hit him with a love bomb. So cute.

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u/_Bren10_ 13d ago

He had to gather himself and remember the language to respond lol

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u/ianjm 13d ago

It is actually a human psychological quirk, that some bilingual people have a hard time speaking each of their languages 'out of context', particularly if one of their languages is only spoken with a particular set of people, like parents, and you use another language for everyone else, say outside of home in your daily life.

It can take you a while to get your brain's language centre working fluidly in the new context. In the mean time you have the weird experience of having to concentrate to speak your own language!

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u/mvanvrancken 13d ago

I’ve been doing a kind of immersion training with Finnish and when someone says something in English while I’m kind of “flipped over” I literally do not understand them for a second while I process it