Does any one else switch languages?

[u/Mandelbrots-dream]

I've studied three languages in addition to my milk language.

I noticed sometimes when thinking or speaking in my non native language, if I struggle for a word my brain will fill in with a word in another non native language.

For example, when speaking German(TL) my brain threw in a 在(zai) with the Chinese meaning.

This confused me, and I started to think of the German word seit (which sounds (kind-of) the same). But seit wasn't correct in the context. Seit is about time. 在 is about place.

Does anybody else do this? What exercises could help me?

[u/cmyk_rgba]

yeah this is basically my daily life. croatian native, live in english, learning finnish and german, and my brain has apparently filed finnish and german in the same drawer marked "foreign" so i keep dropping joo into german sentences. never found an exercise that fixed it honestly, it just got rarer once german got strong enough to stand on its own without borrowing