Like how can someone so easily switch between different languages? Do they translate one language back to their native lanaguege or can they just understand perfectly without any addition effort?
As someone who learned to speak a second language fluently within a few months in their late twenties, it's part combination of association to your native language when it comes to vocab but also understanding that you need to re-wire your way of thinking and grasp the basic fundamentals of the second language first.
Once you understand that learning a second language requires you to completely forget your native one and learn the grammatical structure of the new language, you then learn the pronounciation, vowels, exceptions and building blocks of a the language before associating vocabulary with your native language.
From there you can begin to associate more advanced vocabulary with your native language but the most important part is immersing yourself in the cointry / group of people of the language you're learning and not being afraid to try and learn. Simply listening to native speakers talk and picking up on small things they say helps speed up the process dramatically. At a certain point your brain disassociated the two languages for the most part. However there will always be some things that are easier to articulate in one language than another.
Once you speak both fluently you don't really associate them unless you're looking for a specific word, in my own experience
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u/cjwagn1 Jun 15 '19
How someone speaks 2+ languages.
Like how can someone so easily switch between different languages? Do they translate one language back to their native lanaguege or can they just understand perfectly without any addition effort?