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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 27 08 May 2011 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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Have you ever been as comfortable in a learned language vs your native tongue? It
intrigues me. I'd prefer to be able to think as effortlessly in another language as my native one, I know that wouldn't literally happen, but how close could you get? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6440 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 27 08 May 2011 at 6:40am | IP Logged |
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Why wouldn't it literally happen? Some people claim to be more comfortable in a non-native tongue; spending much more time with a non-native language than a native one can lead to that, though it doesn't always.
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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 3 of 27 08 May 2011 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
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Really? I thought one would never be as comfortable due to the lack of the 100% natural
learning from birth. I guess that was a strange misconception. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6440 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 27 08 May 2011 at 7:05am | IP Logged |
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Yes, really. It doesn't seem to be that common, but it's not vanishingly rare, either.
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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 27 08 May 2011 at 7:10am | IP Logged |
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Thanks! That's encouraging :)
I was dreading the idea of having a headache trying to speak in so many languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6553 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 27 08 May 2011 at 8:07am | IP Logged |
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Today, I'm more comfortable in my second AND third languages than in Spanish which is my mother tongue. I left Mexico at 10 and have been in total immersion in other languages since. While I have no problem speaking Spanish, my active vocabulary, use of slang, speed and grammar knowledge are just better in those two other languages.
Look at most early age immigrants with multilingual parents and you'll get a similar result. It is actually relatively common within that group, such as the expat community. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 7 of 27 08 May 2011 at 8:44am | IP Logged |
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I feel about as comfortable in English as in Swedish, and I don't even live in an English-speaking country.
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| RogerK Triglot Groupie Austria Joined 5076 days ago 92 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian Studies: Portuguese | Message 8 of 27 08 May 2011 at 8:51am | IP Logged |
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I began learning German at 28, took two years to be able to converse on any subject and due to the fact that I have practiced my profession almost solely in German I prefer to speak German rather than English. When I speak English I have to search for words which I wouldn't normally use. So it is possible for the adult learner too.
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