Sometimes I genuinely forget that I'm bilingual and that I can speak another language natively and I think about like French or something where you have to keep track of the gender of the nouns and I go "oh, wow, imagine" and then LOL I realise I can do that in Cypriot Greek. 
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Same!! First thinking of French or Spanish and then it hits me

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I also get a bit upset that people tell me "Spanish sounds so cool but Cypriot Greek, that's ugly-sounding"...

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I love the rhythm of Cypriot Greek
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To me though, Cypriot Greek sounds very different — we have very different consonants to Spanish and Greek.
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When I’m not paying attention, I sometimes confuse Spanish and Greek as well. I get why people say they sound alike. But yea Cypriot Greek is very different in terms of sounds so I don’t think many people would take it for Spanish

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I saw somebody spell it "Galamaraes" the other day and I'm going with it.

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That's Cypriot (weird spelling though, like an immigrant Cypriot would spell it) for Greek mainlanders.

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I used to forget English is considered a foreign language when people asked me if I speak any.
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Not to mention having to memorise Italian. And I want to learn Spanish now. My head will explode.
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Do you ever get this in London?https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1115530512053960704 …
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No. Everyone tells me Greek sounds like Spanish, but the comment I had for Cypriot Greek is that it sometimes sounds like Italian. I always assume that’s due to the lack of long vowels in the first two, unlike the latter ones.
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Spanish-speaking people tell me Greek sounds like Spanish, which it does to me too. But they and I do not think Cypriot Greek sounds like Spanish at all.
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Nope not at all. Cypriot Greek has long vowels and many phonetics that do not appear in Spanish/Greek, so it’s phonetically very different.
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But it's a bit disturbing either way. Thanks brain.