🔗 Can You Lose Your Native Tongue?
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James
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
This reminds me of trying to write essays in English after an intense year studying Japanese in Japan. It was so hard and my English became way worse. Arguably never recovered w.
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@jamesvandyne Oh man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one that went through that. I feel downright senile at times fishing for words in my mother tongue that readily spring up in Japanese.
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