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One final thing: The weirdest part I've personally experienced is that the more languages you know, the bigger your issues with spelling and sentence structure
by mamonster 4y ago
One final thing: The weirdest part I've personally experienced is that the more languages you know, the bigger your issues with spelling and sentence structure in ALL languages. Many European languages have a large overlap of words with differences in spelling, and depending on how much you used a word in one language vs the other when writing something quickly your brain will default to the more used one, even if it is in a different language. Similarly, you might end up translating a sentence from one language instead of writing it in the target language and end up with a weird grammatical structure. And the more proficient you are in the 2nd/3rd language the bigger the above issue.
- auganov 4y agoI think people underestimate how verbal ability develops well into old age. Some of it may carry over across languages but most probably doesn't. If one truly does speak multiple languages with similar proficiency, it's reasonable to assume all of them took a hit. Many make the mistake of comparing themselves against the median with respect to foreign languages, yet they'd never do this with any other ability.