Tonight I went to a family dinner/birthday party with my host mom & brother. It was super cool because a lot of their family was displaced during the dictatorship in Chile during the 70's, so everyone there could speak some combination of Spanish, French, Swedish, and English. I ended up having a conversation in English with a girl whose first langugage was Spanish, second language was French, and third was English (in order of how good she was at speaking them.) And with a guy whose first language was Swedish and second language was English, and another guy who spoke Spanish and then English. It was a lot of fun and super cool to have all the languages going on at the same time!
(In case you were wondering I also had conversations in Spanish, but the the one with everyone but me speaking English-as-a-second language was definitely the highlight of the night.)
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