Jerbear

Omg people aren’t automatically switching to English when I speak Portuguese?? Am I…fluent?

What do you mean?? There exists this magical time period of ‘next time’ or ‘in the future’ when we’re all fluent in all our target languages!

One porto in, and all of a sudden, I’m fluent in Portuguese (allegedly)

I love this. It hurts me to be this villain unfortunately, so I need to lean into it more!

I honestly feel ridiculous trying to speak a language I’ve barely studied, but it’s kinda crazy to hear and feel Portuguese coming out of my mouth.

It was going well until she asked me if I could understand Portuguese well before she was gonna give me a bunch of information, and I just couldn’t lie. We ended up switching to Spanish.

In Porto now, right outside my accommodation, trying to hype myself up for my first Portuguese conversation. Here goes nothing…

I just wanna use the word ‘obsequious’ in an argument. Anyone wanna fight?

I keep repeating the word ‘gender’ in (what I think is) an Australian accent to amuse myself. Jeen-dah, jeen-dah, jeen-dah. Did I get that right?

I just wanted to make sure íbamos had an accent. It does hehe

Me: I think I can take on the Spanish C2 exam!
Also me: *googles ‘ir conjugation’*

No, I just wanted them to tell me!

Is it weird that I get offended whenever I see people going to the Philippines without telling me, even if I don’t know them that well or even at all? It is, isn’t it?

My friend in Indonesia: banyak gossip
Me: spill-lah!

Yeah i should’ve said tungkulin

Mine was in my own L1…I confused the Tagalog word for ‘right’ with the one for ‘responsibility.’

What time does everyone do their daily ‘regretting something wrong I said in some language’? Mine’s at 8:15 am today.

Used the English expression ‘for what it’s worth’ earlier today, and honestly, I don’t know if I used it right.

You interpret everything while i speak then

Mine should be, if I’m not mistaken…eu sou duz eshtaduz unidush

I just keep randomly repeating the phrase “Sou dos Estados Unidos” to myself for when I go to Portugal next month.

Can confirm. I'm always at a 10

Wait, apparently she thinks I’m half Chinese??

At a Chinese restaurant in Madrid right now, and although it was already established from the start that I was Filipino and did not speak Chinese, the owner seems to keep forgetting and keeps on speaking to me in Chinese anyway.

Going for the first time to Portugal next month, and so I’m finally gonna take on some Portuguese. Let’s see how far I get in a month knowing Spanish.

Normalize leaving your gay dads at home unattended

Another day, another pat in the back for a masterful use of the Spanish past subjunctive

Code-switched to corporatese at a meeting this morning, and I’m torn between feeling proud of myself and vomiting my brains out.

Spanish really said “Y’all on your own” when it dropped all the conjugations for ser and ir.

I always like to think that at some point, I must have had Malay-speaking Tagalog ancestors that were disappointed that their kids weren't learning Malay anymore, which at the time was considered a prestigious language.

Don’t worry, lolo and lola, I got you.