Me and all my cousins lost our native language. It's common for kids. > But just as they are good language learners, children are good language forgetters. Lin

Me and all my cousins lost our native language. It's common for kids. > But just as they are good language learners, children are good language forgetters. Linguists generally agree that a language acquired in early childhood tends to have greater emotional resonance for its speaker. But a child who stops speaking a language before age 12 can completely lose it. For those who stop speaking a language in childhood, that language can erode — so much so that when they try to relearn it, they seem to have few, if any, advantages, Schmid says, compared with people learning that language from scratch.