being bilingual is understanding but not being able to translate because your brain couldn’t be bothered to do any extra work and is just content with knowing what the heck is going on
Being bilingual is sitting in the class of your second language and people asking you to translate the word and you struggle because you get the meaning, the feeling, the general aim of the word but can’t even use your own language to translate it.
Being bilingual is trying to express something but you can only express it in the your second language so you just say nothing