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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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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Sometimes I know how to address a topic in English because I read an article in English about it and don’t remember or can’t think of the equivalent in French at the moment.

Just because we speak more than one language, it does not mean that the vocabulary span is exactly the same in all languages we speak.

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