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| Nguyen Senior Member Vietnam Joined 4890 days ago 109 posts - 195 votes  Speaks: Vietnamese | Message 25 of 29 20 February 2011 at 8:28am | IP Logged |
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Very interesting topic. I am on an assignment in Singapore right now so Singlish is the order of the day nha. My English gets worse by the minute and I speak very badly sometimes but it seems perfectly natureal until I consciencly think about what I'm saying. Also, when I hang out with other Vietnamese we often speak a really messed up dialect. VietSinglish?
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| Lightning Groupie United Kingdom livelanguagelove.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5135 days ago 58 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 26 of 29 24 February 2011 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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I'm only about lower intermediate in Japanese, but recently I've been having trouble recalling if I read something in English or Japanese, or if I had a conversation with someone in Japanese or English, or if someone said something to me in Japanese... I'll be telling my friend about something and I'll be thinking, '...Did they say that in English or was it in Japanese...?' Not that I'm complaining, I quite like how familiar I've gotten with Japanese. :)
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5055 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 27 of 29 24 February 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
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In my experience (and I don't have much), this happens to me with languages I'm at least
mildly proficient in. It has happened to me in Spanish and happens all the time with Hebrew, and let me tell you I am nowhere near fluent in either of those languages. I think it happens more when I read something than when I hear something. When I hear something I tend to remember the sounds more than the meaning, but when I read I remember the meaning and not the sounds (if that makes any sense lol). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6462 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 29 of 29 26 February 2011 at 2:01am | IP Logged |
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I think that I'm almost always aware of which language I'm speaking, writing, or hearing. It has happened to me on a few occasions that I answered automatically in French or German when somebody used that language although the conversation was in English, but these are rare exceptions.
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