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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6186 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 2 13 July 2009 at 3:02am | IP Logged |
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My 21st birthday was last month, so I'm sure you can guess what happened that night. I'd like to let you all know that you are wrong, although I did consume enough alcohol to lose some of my memory. But I didn't just forget things like traveling from one place to another, or small things like conversations...
Toward the end of the night and beginning of the morning I was brought by my brother and some friends to a Korean restaurant he wanted me to try. Our waitress was a native Korean, and so I spoke only Korean to her. During our conversation I remember her switching to English from time to time seemingly without reason. During a conversation with my brother recently I was informed of some key details from my conversation with the waitress I cannot for the life of me remember. My brother and our friends don't know any Korean, and he did clarify that she said those things in English. In other words, I have no memory of any of the English spoken at the restaurant that night. Not what the waitress said, my brother, or any of our friends. But I can recall everything from the Korean conversations me and the waitress had. Has anyone heard of or experienced this sort of phenomenon? I know there are cases where people literally forget an entire language. I read a story on the internet a few years ago where a hispanic man sustained a head injury and forgot everything about the English language he knew, leaving him only with his native Spanish. But in my case, I lost the ability to recall information produced in English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5909 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 2 13 July 2009 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
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You were probably just using your brain a little more actively with the Korean :-)
Happy birthday! Edited by Lizzern on 13 July 2009 at 6:22am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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