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    I had an english class right after french and I get so confused.
    And I can't learn japanese at the same time as french apparently.

    Tôi đói.

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    Back home we have something called Fringlish. It seems that often times speakers of English and French will mix the two together with amusing results.

    "I parké my car à la courbe" This is a classic example used to denote the French used by the residences of Moncton, NB, Canada.

    PErsonally I use Enligh words to replace the words I do not know in French. Sometimes I will swear in both languages, though it is usually in English. Then there are those wonderous times where I forget a word in English so I say its French counterpart (Sad bit is that Enligh is my first language).


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    Tagalog is my 2nd language, sometimes when speaking to my wife, who is Filipino, I'll speak to her and mix both Tagalog and English.

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    Just <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat_lexicon">Nadsat</a>.

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    Not yet. I just make up [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] at this point and have all my own quirky sayings...that I don't type on the net. It sounds better than it is written. Example:

    What are you guys going to do?

    Stuff-Spuff.

    It kind of sort of sounds good...but then again I am just plain smurfed up.

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    I mix english words into my norwegian all the time, but few young people don't. Other than that, I sometimes use short phrases or words from German, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish now and then.

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    I sometimes use German words and phrases every once in awhile. Not very often anymore, it's been awhile since I've taken German lessons.
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    Why is it annoying?

    I think it's perfectly natural to mix one language with another, if you were raised to speak more than one language. I can't speak to my parents in anything other than Konglish. A little Korean here, a little English there, it all works out.

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    I only really know English. Sometimes I'll say a few words that are French, German or Spanish when greeting somebody, but that's basically all I know.

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