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RE: How much of a language do you forget if you stop using it?

in Cross Culture4 years ago

I love learning new languages. I've tried to learn a little bit of the language of every country I've traveled. So I've learned to say "Thank you" and "Hello" and some other every day expressions (numbers, food, etc.) in Spanish, Portuguese, Moroccan Arabic, Montenegrin and Bulgarian over the last two years ^^
But I forgot most of it, as soon as I wasn't in the country anymore.
The language I'm studying the most, is English actually. My writing and understanding improved a lot over the last year. Mostly by reading and writing on Hive and watching Star Trek ^^
But I didn't get to speak much. So I'm still feeling quite insecure, when I do. But I think, if I would have to speak English all day for a while, I would adapt quickly, because I already know the words, I just haven't used them. So I hope I get to spend a time around English speaking people someday. I would love to be able to speak fluently :-)

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Next Generation, I hope?

One of these days I'm going to start organizing regular parties on discord so you are welcome to come and speak English with us :-)

My favorite phrases to learn are "I am...." "She is...." and just make absurd sentences everywhere I go

Yes, all of it. Started with Next Generation last summer and worked my way through Voyager and Deep Space Nine. I've also watched the first three movies, but it's not the same. I'm a bit sad, that it's over, I became a bit of a Trekkie over the last half a year ^^

The discord parties are a good idea! But I don't know if I'm up for that just now. It's hard enough to talk to people face to face, but doing it through the telephone really scares me ^^

The parties will be voice and text. You can choose either.

I have a friend that swears Star Trek is based on a true story lol