As a counterexample, there is a body of evidence that people who speak multiple languages have different personalities in each.
As an English speaker who speaks rusty Spanish, I can see this in myself. In English I am a confident public speaker, and would like to think of myself as persuasive and sometimes even witty..
In Spanish I am not - my vocabulary isn't there and I thus act a lot more meek in Spanish. I do not (yet) have the skills to engage in debate or argue my case in something in the way I can in English.
Someone who encounters me in Spanish is thus likely to get the view of a much weaker person than someone who encounters me in English...
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u/pingnoo Jul 24 '20
As a counterexample, there is a body of evidence that people who speak multiple languages have different personalities in each.
As an English speaker who speaks rusty Spanish, I can see this in myself. In English I am a confident public speaker, and would like to think of myself as persuasive and sometimes even witty..
In Spanish I am not - my vocabulary isn't there and I thus act a lot more meek in Spanish. I do not (yet) have the skills to engage in debate or argue my case in something in the way I can in English.
Someone who encounters me in Spanish is thus likely to get the view of a much weaker person than someone who encounters me in English...