Shay also says that a smile is universal, so all of them.
Shay also says that a smile is universal, so all of them.
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Assuming you're comfortable with French, or even with English for that matter, can you imagine coming up blank for a word just because you worked so diligently at cementing the same word in, let's say, Arabic? That seems a little crazy for me, granted I haven't used it in like 4 years, but still. It's like forgetting how to count...
Fuck, I think I forgot how to count.
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One whore, two whore, three whore, four
The ugly ones go out the door
Five whore, six whore, seven whore, eight
No more need to masturbate
Nine whore, ten whore, and double digits
To pluralize I did forgets
Too many whores, grammar can wait
Especially the need to conjugate
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It happens, if you've studied them intensely during, say, a year, and then cease using them. If you've kept at it for far longer, it's much harder to lose a language, however. I've also found that with a second language, my accents can change and fluency, or rather flow, can come and go fairly rapidly, depending on how much I use it.
I studied norwegian, danish, russian and english in an organised setting, with the aim of being able to speak them, and on top of that I studied japanese and dutch on my own.
Added to that I've had classes on finnish grammar, and absorbed enough out of several other languages to have a basic vocabulary, and use simple sentences in each.
These days the only languages I am fluent in are swedish and english, and my english accent has gone from eton-ish (the version I was primarily instructed in), through welsh-seeming (the welsh intonation is closer to my native dialect, and I wasn't speaking much english), into a heavily accented mess, and then, in around six months time into something somewhere between GA and some unspecified canadian accent (I now live with an american woman, but there's something about how canadians use their vowels, that rhymes with my native tongue).
I lost norwegian and danish, because I speak swedish, and what with swedish, norwegian and danish being close enough to be nearly be dialects of the same language, I didn't need the others, and they fell out of use. I still understand them just fine, I just don't use them back.
I lost dutch (though I can understand it somewhat, still), because I didn't need it at all, so got no practice.
I lost russian, because who the hell needs russian.
I lost japanese through lack of practice, though I could probably have kept it if I'd have stuck with the anime.
When I say lost, I'm not saying I don't understand one iota, but I don't really understand everything anymore, except in the case of danish and norwegian, where I understand, I just can't pronounce.
edit: I should note that I seem to be genetically predisposed for learning languages (my sister speaks japanese like a native, according to natives, after a relatively short period of studies, to name but one example), so I never had to work very hard to pick up a language, when I did, and because I didn't need, or engaged in, many exercises with repetition in mind, maybe it didn't settle in my long term memory very well, as it were.
If you're like me, maybe you need to put in more work at grinding in what you know in serbian, through repetition. But then again, your wife was serbian, so idk
Last edited by Snee; 07-11-2016 at 08:12 PM.
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