Well, it's sort of something I took for granted. I had never used any except one of the languages I studied in the past for practical purposes, so I understand forgetting vocabulary in those. However, I had used Serbian for over a decade, so I didn't expect to suddenly forget common words so easily. I'm mostly wondering if it was possibly specific memory displacement.
It was just a little unnerving, and I was walking around with a cigarette not fully prepared to research it.
I could appreciate having that ability, but I'm not very good at picking up tongues. Even in English, if you pronounce a word or sentence slightly different than I'm expecting, you'd probably have to repeat it several more times before I give up and ask you to write or spell it. I said "What?" quite frequently as a kid and I used to mumble before I began forcing myself to enunciate.
It shouldn't be surprising that I study pronunciation straight from textbooks. I usually end up with either good pronunciation or a very ambiguous accent. Actually, it's the same in English, for I've been asked if I have an accent in English on occasion. It reminds me of...
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