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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 19:05:03 JST clacke

   My brain has usually had four shelves for languages:

   - Swedish
   - English
   - German
   - Other

   When I started learning Japanese, Spanish words started falling out, and my brain would give me "kedo" when I was looking for "pero" ("but").

   When I started learning Cantonese it pushed out my Japanese and I could no longer make simple sentences in Japanese.

   But the other day when I was trying to think something in German, Cantonese words intruded on my German shelf. This is new and worrying. I'm not really better at Cantonese than a few years ago, just worse at German. 😟

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 19:27:59 JST clacke

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     • Desikner

     @desikn My Swedish is deteriorating and anglifying. 😔

     I used to speak only Swedish to my son, but in the last two years I've been increasingly responding in English when he starts conversation in English.

     I think I've found a lower plateau of Swedish level for now though. I have several people I IM with in Swedish and sometimes call, which helps me not drop any further.

     I also overcompensate a bit when writing or speaking Swedish with people who are not my son, so I'm probably using fewer English words and Anglicisms than some people in Sweden. 😁

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     Desikner (desikn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 19:28:00 JST Desikner

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     @clacke At least your Swedish is not getting worse.

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     :cate: This is Mur :scremcat: (mur2501@qoto.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 23:14:46 JST :cate: This is Mur :scremcat:

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     @clacke
     Maybe it's time to renovate your brain :catjam:

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     Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 06:17:02 JST Kermode

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     @clacke I can't speak anything except the english I was born with. I try to read some other things like news items and fedi posts. The last couple of months I've been doing duolingo spanish and german in the morning and spanish and french in the afternoon. Some days my brain locks up and I can't come up with the simplest article in the right language! Meh. It's good for my sorry old brain to try hard anyhow.

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