Why do multi-lingual people seemingly, with no reason, switch between languages while talking to someone who is also multi-lingual? What benefit does it have over staying with the language they started the conversation with?
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Without claiming to be a linguist, and only have the perspective of somebody who is bilingual, I think the best explanation is that when you are speaking say in Spanish, you get to a point in the conversation where the word you are looking for comes faster to your mind in say English, and without realizing it, you switch to English for a while, until the same happens with a word in Spanish, and then you switch without realizing it back to Spanish.
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