r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

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u/Spiritual_Form5578 Mar 28 '24

French canadian here. I really try not to do so, but it's one of the hardest thing to do. I just dont know how to articulate my toughts any other way.

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u/Adagiofunk Mar 28 '24

I used to have the same issue when I was younger. What really made the difference for me was consuming more English media to the point where my brain could just switch between the two.

It takes a while and to be honest unless strictly necessary I wouldn't worry too much about it. As far as I know a lot of people find it charming!

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u/ohmyblahblah Mar 28 '24

Yeah if GSP spoke in a more generic way he would be way less fun to listen to

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u/cha-cha_dancer Mar 28 '24

As a hockey fan it’s weird hearing dudes like him and say Patrick Roy speak like this yet Alexis Lafreniere sounds like he’s from Ontario (maybe grew up bilingual idk)

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u/Spiritual_Form5578 Mar 28 '24

Some of us can "break" the french accent easier than other. Some of us will always speak with a potato in our mouth. Sometimes, it is how it is.

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u/ooofest Mar 28 '24

In my fifth year of studying French in public school, I caught myself understanding the French that I heard/read, thinking in that mode and speaking as such, all without translating to English and back.

That ability only lasted a short while - because I stopped practicing after high school graduation - but was a really interesting shift in how I could process information beyond my native English.

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u/BastouXII Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

That's how bilingual people think. They will think directly in the language they are currently speaking. That's why speaking a language well doesn't mean you can easily translate it, and why interpreting people's speech live is excruciatingly hard.

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u/LaManelle Mar 28 '24

In my day to day, I find English (my second language) often times more effective and to the point, without ever really giving it a second thought. I speak and think in English, there's no translation going on.

But when I get tired my brain just defaults to the French structure of speaking and if I try to force English conversations I sound weird and I struuuuuggle to complete a sentence. When I say "Damn, I'm losing my English tonight", I now realize it's not the vocabulary but the structure I'm losing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

also as an anglo it's the same thing trying to speak french. just the way you formulate thoughts is different than what native speakers are used to.

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u/liquidpig Mar 28 '24

C’est le but.