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Do you feel like you're forgetting your native language?
| More often than not, yeah. At some point I started thinking and talking more in English, which inevitably leads to situations where I stop mid-convo and go "I'm sorry, how do we call that thing that (...)" or whatever. Feels bad, man.
| Why, yes, but I've nearly become Japanese again and will soon return my aching soul to the land of the rising sun. You see, dear reader, I was once a noblewoman in the Edo period. After my husband died, his enemies sacked our estate, pillaged our property and forced me to work in a brothel. I eventually escaped after killing my owner, though I did not make it far. Now, I have reincarnated into the body of an obese American man. I will soon cease to speak this filthy tongue. Bile...
| me forgot english?
that's unpossible!
| Yeah, my Hungarian is slipping away fast. A few years back a Hungarian kid actually asked me why I talk so weird, it kinda stung.
| My parents were raising me like in mexico in the states, unfortunately, the school forced me to learn english and we try our best even now to try to understand each other.
| I would, I think, but since my day job is being a translator I get used to juggling English and my native language a lot. My brain still runs English like 99% of the time, though.
| Worst thing is I listen to Japanese weeb music yet that doesn't exactly stick as much as English has. English just oozes everywhere! Especially after being terminally online after the lockdown
| I only speak english and I feel like I'm forgetting it everyday
| No. If I forget my language, then I can no longer try to live.
| I know 3 languages and I wanna learn more but English is all I actually use, I've yet to use my German for something
| Yeah, it's been happening for a while now.
It's turned my speech into a mixture of "sophisticated" language (because I'm shamelessly importing from French and English to supplement what I forget) and prison slang because don't ask.
| I have been read and write in English for my part few years, I have lost the intuitive of my native language, shit is wild.
| Is my mother tongue something I can say I'm native in anymore is the dilemma I'm facing. Ive been thinking in English for years. Which is even more wild because even what I consider my mother tongue isn't the first language I learned, it's because me and my mom moved elsewhere when I was around first or second grade and I had to use another language entirely.
| oh god the bilingual struggle of losing parts of your lexicon in both languages in the most inappropriate times imaginable
AND it also makes you sound like a pretencious asshole if you code-switch in conversation because you forgot something or got used to most of the phrases being rather interchangable in your head
| Sometimes I forget some common words of my native language, or struggle with explaining a concept that’s native to English. I used to be a shut-in, with nobody to talk in my first language, but plenty of stuff to read/watch/play in English.
English took me 2 years, on-and-off; working leisurely through Japanese now
| Yeah quite. I was never really good at finding my words or anything like that, but English flows better and is SO much simpler to use, using my native language feels like an inconvenience at this point, I only do it if everyone around already is. English feels less vulgar too.
I actually have a broader emotional range in English too, and I can usually be more outgoing and agreeable; it's that weird phenomenon of one's personality being a little different across various languages.
| No, why would I
| Not really. It's more like a mix them more often. Especially when I'm speaking with another person who understands both my sentences sometimes go full 50/50.
| >>818085
>sound like a pretencious asshole if you code-switch in conversation
Ain't this a fucking MOOD. My sister and I code-switch between English and our first tongue freely when we talk to each other, even out in public. Sometimes someone else will say "your English is very good! Where did you learn that?" and I won't have a single fucking idea what to say.
idk man, same way we learned our first language??
| >>818229 code switching is so fun, one good thing is if people around you aren't proficient in English you can just encrypt what you're talking about. However everyone knows some English words so some stuff is off limits or you need to use euphemisms such as "go commit die"
| Filipinos in this thread
| Sometimes..
| >>818233
I don't feel the need to encrypt what we talk about though. It just makes me feel like a snob. :( I'm not trying to show off, this is just how we talk!!!
| >>818442 In high school when we had English classes I was generally a popular choice for a conversation partner. I would struggle between talking in an American accent or the local accent, I would usually start with the first then transition slowly to the second depending on how much my partner comprehends me, and sometimes I'd get accused of mocking them because of it, but I swear it's unconscious. I don't expect them to understand accents they aren't regularly exposed to anyways.
| >>818473
Oh mood. Like, when the person I'm talking to struggle to speak in English, I also struggle somehow.
It's a weird automatic reflex, like my brain is going, it's ok, we can talk however you're more comfortable with! But they're supposed to practice English and my subconscious just can't comprehend that.
| I remember that I always tried to speak English without accent, but it was impossible due to different pronounce.
So I told myself "fuck it" and started to use a rude, almost fake, Russian accent. From that moment I've got 0 problem.
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| Native anglos gtfo