For those who speak many languages, you will understand at least half of all these.

1. When you know the word in every other language you’ve learned besides the one of your interlocutor.

2. Some jokes are not as funny when translated.

3. When you’re watching a TV show in another language and you can’t explain the references to your friends.

4. Thinking in the wrong language during an exam.

5. Having the perfect wording to insult someone, but not in the language they would understand.

6. When your sassy comeback is in the wrong language.

7. People ask you “Speak [insert language]” and you have no examples in mind.

8. People try to speak with you, thinking they know the language better than you.

9. Being able to correct the teacher because you know the language better than them.

10. Helping others get extra points on their exam because you’re basically like a teacher.

11. Rightfully assuming that tutoring is the fastest way to make money without too much effort.

12. Taking a phone call and completely switching your tone, voice and delivery as well as the language.

13. With people who speak the same set of languages as you, you mix all of those together in one sentence.

14. When your friends ask you to translate a part of a text and it takes you embarrassingly longer than you’d think to explain it to them.

15. Having friends ask you to teach them the language.

16. Making friends with someone because you speak the same language.

17. Refusing to watch a movie with subtitles with your friends because you do speak the original language.

18. Refusing to read a translated book, because you know the original language.

19. Always watching the movie in the language you first watched it in.

20. Being faced with words that cannot be translated.