Nicole Wallace talks acting in Spanish vs. acting in English

[@faby90s]

The bilingual brain is amazing 😊

[@ConnectedInternational]

It absolutely is!!!

[@ldv02]

As a bilingual person this is so accurate, your brain does get wobbly

[@Sushantlover77]

meanwhile in india i know 6 languages since childhood english hindi marathi konkani and sanskrit and urdu and i want to learn south indian languages and other basics of european langauges like french spanish

[@Sushantlover77]

see konkani was mother tongue marathi was commonly spoken english was taught to me when i was 2 years old my mom holded my hands and taught to write abcd then hindi is the common langugae of india so all cartoons are made in hindi so i learnt hindi and sanskrit learnt in school also learnt urdu because urdu is copied from hindi . urdu is just hindi written in persian arabian font basically islamic version of hindi

[@Mayo_8239]

@@Sushantlover77 damn bro, the only useful language there is english that u know

[@Sushantlover77]

@@Mayo_8239 yes even when v communicate in local language we write them using english alphabets.english is the most important and the most formal and widley used and maybe ur mother tongue or national language aprt from that

[@hestikleynhans4926]

As a bilingual person I can totally relate. English is my second language and when I have to give someone my phone number in English I get confused so I have to run it in my first language first😂

[@mcnoneya]

My SIL is the sole translator between her family and ours and I feel sooo bad for her. They speak no English and we speak no mandarin. When she’s tired she gets cranky, I would too. An aquaintence who is from China told me that around 5pm her English brain shuts off 😂. I was like “yea that makes sense” to have to translate everything in your head before you say it and even though you are smart when you get something that in another language is basic-wrong, people think you’re stupid. I had a really smart friend she was bilingual and graduated american high school early even. Yet there were still times I could tell she would just blank on a word. It’s not easy!

[@XyanneHansen-f6p]

She is so pretty

[@evap.5121]

To speak a language well, you have to think in that language. I love how most Americans can't fathom that some ppl are good at more than one language. It's possible for anyone who grew up with two languages. What isn't possible for everyone is actively knowing over 3 or 4 languages.

[@greekchick104]

As someone who grew up bilingual, you are 100% correct. Having to switch between languages is a mental feat of its own right, even more so when you’re talking to someone who knows the same multiple languages you do and you flip back and forth between languages mid- sentence or mid-conversation.

[@Mia_M]

It's not that we can't fathom it, it's that we rarely encounter people in our every day lives who are bilingual. For most of us, we don't get introduced to foreign languages until middle school (if we're lucky) and high school (if we're unlucky). By that point, it's become much harder for us because are brains are less plastic. The sad reality is most Americans rarely venture outside of the US so never find a reason to learn another language as it seems impractical and unnecessary to them.

[@emkayyyy3358]

How do you think in that language!!? Genuinely (desperately) asking!

[@greekchick104]

@@emkayyyy3358 so for me, it’s a matter of translating in my head before I say something while I’m having a conversation with someone. So for instance: I’ll be talking to a family member or a friend of mine in Greece, and in the split second that I have while they’re talking to me I will not only have to translate from Greek to English what they’re telling me but I’m also having to translate my response to them from English to Greek. It’s definitely aggravating at times.

[@greekchick104]

@@Mia_M this definitely plays into it as well. People who grow up bilingual in the US typically learn their second language in young childhood (usually because of being immersed in whatever respective culture they’re growing up in), so when they get to the point of having to learn a language in school, they will usually have an easier time picking up that third language because, for lack of better wording, their brains are already trained for learning another language in a way most other Americans aren’t when they’re learning their second language in school.

[@lauracosta1774]

Bilingual problems: think in your native language and speak your second language at the same time and sometimes mix them all hahaha

[@luminitaelena6593]

I love you Nicole Wallence Yo también soy española y te quiero mucho, se me olvidó la culpa mia la culpa tuya te quiero❤

[@gayavardan]

As a trilingual person, I can relate to her to a certain degree

[@latoyialove9825]

I promise she can play Sophia bush … I don’t know why she reminds me sooooo much of her especially on one tree hill

[@alara7566]

wow I thought she only Speaks Spanish

[@cjvipinosa3328]

She's literally Spaniard-American.

[@iscovsmart7339]

I speak 3 languages but I always think in my mother tongue. Madingue, French and little English.

[@cb-zc8dv]

she's right, she still has a spanish accent when speaking english.

[@shani3861]

My mother tongue is hebrew i learned English at school and now learning Spanish, korean and Arabic (started at different times) When i try to speak im a mess!! I have broken sentences with more than one language inside I forget words in my mother tongue mid sentence and can pnly remember it in other languages (some the other speaker doesn't know...) And some phrases don't exist in other languages Also when i started Spanish my English spelling just commited suicide, Spanish makes way more sense...

[@miguel.a.d.6078]

Tal vez deberías centrarte en un idioma cada vez 😊

[@jamecia90s]

I taught myself some Arabic and I think in Arabic sometimes 😂

[@pritybird8502]

Better not think then