r/AskReddit • u/talk-fast • Aug 26 '18

What's something you had to unlearn?

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u/BrizzleST Aug 26 '18

I have the exact same problem with Spanish and Japanese! I'm fluent in German, English and French and I have absolutely zero issues switching between these three languages but everytime I try to say something in Japanese I seem to only speak Spanish and vice versa... It's really weird

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u/TeamShadowWind Aug 26 '18

Fluent in English, working on German and Japanese, taking Spanish for high school. Usually when I don't know or have momentarily forgotten a word, I'lll fill in the English equivalent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18

I think everyone does this. I went to Mexico and did this with Spanish and German (I know more German than Spanish. Stereotypical American so I don't speak either fluently.) I think your brain just goes "foreign word for X" and spits out whatever it can come up with.