• Wait, what words were used to say that?
  • Skua@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    The weirdest experience I’ve had with language mixups so far is that my brain apparently seems to conflate anything not English. English is my first language, and I used to be able to speak German pretty well — not fluently, but well enough to hold a fairly natural conversation. I have unfortunately let it slip away now. I’m now learning a different language and for some reason whenever I don’t know a word for something but I do remember the German one, my brain just picks the German one. It’s quite frustrating.

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      2 days ago

      Same. If somebody speaks to me in Spanish, half the time I react by speaking German.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I have that too. It feels like in my brain there’s a big box for my native tongue, and a smaller box all the foreign languages I don’t really use that much.

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      Ja, ich liebe when I’m busy talking in one language aber words von the other language ich know keep sneaking in.