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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 11 14 March 2011 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | ||
That's normal. You'll need to develop the ability to switch from one to the other, though, depending on the use you make of your languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 10 of 11 14 March 2011 at 11:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's pretty normal.
Words are really incidentally to language -- language is about how words and other morphemes combine. When you see a single word, there's no combination, so there's no indication of language. If I saw the word "leer" in isolation, I would read it as Spanish, and I wouldn't be "wrong", whatever the person who wrote it says. An interesting related phenomenon: I was doing flashcards in Gaelic, and I got the word "eye" in English to translate. I know this one. It's sùil. But I jammed up. Why? It felt to me that in my mind I heard /ai/, but without any context around it, I couldn't automatically tell if it was "eye", "I", "aye" or "ay". I was looking at the word and I could see the spelling -- it was definitely "eye", but it felt like something inside refused to accept it without more evidence. (!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5123 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 11 of 11 19 March 2011 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree I think it's normal.
Sometimes I'll be reading something in French or German (mostly German, and my German is really basica so I find that strange) and I can understand the sentence but I can't translate it into English no matter how hard I try. Like I can picture the concepts in my mind, I'll see a picture of a red car going through a carwash with 2 people in the front of the car but half of the words I'll totally forget in English. It's really frustrating, but that probably happens a lot to other people so I'm not going to worry myself :P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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