Sudden language amnesia, all multilinguals know it, right? While we can name all tools in a toolbox in French, although that is not even our native language, we cannot say “milk” in English when we have to switch quickly to this language. As we learnt in the first and second article of this series, whenever […]
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We learnt in the first article of this series that our languages like to take a break from us when we don’t use them as often. Thus it takes longer to get them to come back when we suddenly need them and this leads to stammering and forgetting usual words. Whenever it happens, it is
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There are times when at least one of the languages we can speak goes “numb”, i.e. we no longer use it so frequently. During this time it slides to the back of our mind and we slowly lose our fluency in this language. This may happen for many reasons, for shorter or longer periods of
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Basic questions: Am I mul-ti-lin-gual? Am I “endangered species” as a multilingual? Am I polyglot as well?! You will notice a recurring word on this website. Actually, you’ve already read it in its title. Yes, yes, that long one, mul-ti-lin-guals. And maybe you’re wondering if these articles are for you. “Am I a multilingual?“, you’re
Frequent train of thought: No way, I made a grammar mistake again! -> This is so embarrassing! -> Instant blushing -> Apologising -> Reformulating -> Pronunciation error -> Correction -> Next time I’ll keep my mouth shut. Confident train of thought: Ups, grammar slip-up. -> Next time I’ll get it right. Speaking several languages confidently
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