I've been confused between French and English and Esperanto and some Chinese altogether once at a restaurant filled with ex-pats from Canada and Germany along with some Chinese friends. Well, guess what? Some knew French and English, others, Esperanto and Chinese, others, English and Chinese, others, just Chinese. And the worst part? I was one of the interpreters! Half way through the meal, I started tuning into the wrong channel all the time (i.e., I'd be interpreting into the wrong language, or speaking to someone in the wrong language). By the end of it, I was speaking to the waitress in french, the ex-pats in Chinese, and to the Chinese in English.
Oh, lesson is, never, and I mean never, volunteer to be in an interpreter for more than two language at the same time.
Machjo, what languages do you mean? English and Chinese, or Esperanto? Do you what the "negative" effect is from participating in a Canadian forum? Sometimes when I'm talking to my sister or my parents while I'm surfing on the forum, I can't come up with the Dutch words anymore, so I'm just like, when my sister tells something to me, "oh, dat is echt interesting" (that's really ... interesting), instead of "oh, dat is echt interessant" (just to give one example). I've had the same thing at high school; my friends all took lessons at an international school (I was the only one who didn't took those lessons, I still regret that), where they spoke English, so sometimes we were just talking in English instead of Dutch, and that was really confusing sometimes.
