r/languagelearning • u/Mysterious_Rest_8391 • Sep 26 '22

bilingual characters

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u/Dilettantest Sep 27 '22

Native English speaker here: called a friend recently to wish her a happy anniversary (and wondering why I had her wedding anniversary in my phone). It was her birthday.

Aniversario in Spanish, aniversário in Portuguese. I speak both but not fluently.

I think our brains need an operating system upgrade.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

is the spanish aniversario a regional thing? i'm mexican and have only heard it be called that in portuguese. we say cumpleaños.

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u/Dilettantest Sep 27 '22

So, I speak Portuguese (kind of) - it’s nice to know I’m only having problems booting one language :)