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There's a fascinating trick multilingual people use called code switching, which is also

called code mixing or language alternation.

These are just fancy ways of describing the practice of switching between two or more

languages, dialects, or language varieties in a single conversation, situation, or even

in a single sentence.

If you hear someone code switching, you may think they're confused, but they're not.

The fact that they are code switching actually means they know the language is they're switching

between especially well.

There are really two definitions of code switching.

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