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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

it’s actually impossible to be bilingual because you can only ever be speaking at most one language at a time

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Do you speak both English and Spanish?"

"No."

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

"What about Czech?"

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Language hybrids and creoles exist, you could make an argument that those are "speaking two languages at the same time"

Bilingual people do sometimes speak in a mixture of multiple languages to people who speak the same languages