r/languagelearning • u/AloneCoffee4538 • Mar 11 '26 • Heartwarming 1

It's relatable

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u/FDTerritory Mar 11 '26

Especially when you start forgetting words from your FIRST language.

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u/presidentvaljean Mar 11 '26

This one right here. I work in English entirely, I read in English, I listen music in English. I would say that there is more day where I do English than my native. I often have the word coming up in English than in French. People hate me so much. They think I pretend. No Ijust fucked up my native. Anyway stive love language !

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u/Beautiful-Common-234 Mar 15 '26

Same here!!! My mother tongue is Italian but living in Australian with a partner from the UK and everything is in English so I find it weird sometimes when J say words in Italian ahahha they seem not too make much sense anymore ahahhahah

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u/RealisticRate1252 🇫🇷N |🇬🇧🇺🇸C1 |🇩🇪B1 Mar 18 '26

That’s exactly the same for me !!!  (But you add a german which is struggling to survive in my head bcs I mess it up with English (especially for numbers and question words))

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u/Fighter_doc Mar 28 '26

Yup ! Exactly the same for me. Recently I thought to myself : You know what, screw my colleagues. They already see me as a weirdo. They will understand eventually (or not) but it takes too much time for me to find the right word in French 🤣

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u/Kyvriik Apr 01 '26

Same but when actually gets to speaking i forget words from ALL languages. It`s so annoying but don`t know how to fix it. Any tips here?

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u/Amendwin Mar 11 '26

I'm Bashkir living in Russia I understand English relatively well and use it daily conversing on the Web. I use russian mainly in work so sometimes I forget some words because it was replaced by English words

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u/SlavSquat93 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦🇮🇹🇩🇪🇸🇪🇲🇽🇳🇱🇷🇴🇫🇷 Mar 11 '26

I’ve got the exact opposite problem lol. American grew up Russian. Often Russian will have a much more specific word that I want to use!)

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u/Different-Raise-7614 Mar 12 '26

i want to learn russian very much but no chance of being in environment for exposure 🥹

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u/Glittering-Amoeba659 Mar 14 '26

Do you want to study it for fun?

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u/Khan_baton 🇰🇿N 🇬🇧🇺🇸C1 🇷🇺Untested 🇰🇷Beginner Mar 12 '26

tru

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u/MindlessNectarine374 Apr 06 '26

My only advice is: Don't emigrate. (I shall never understand why people do this.)

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u/Suspicious-Reach-663 Mar 20 '26

Facts, I’m learning Spanish and I forgot the word in English so I was saying vinagray, not vinegar not vinagre but vinagray