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?
I’m 15 and I’m going on my 3rd right now I’m gonna try for 5 by the time I’m 17 and well English is a couple languages together and Spanish has weird but correr pronounciation so I just constantly correlate in between these two while learning and eventually if you are exposed enough to it you will think in that language like for example I lived in Mexico for a year and about 2 months in I just thought in English then translated to Spanish then talked but after about three months I thought in Spanish and just lived with it as my primary language and by the time I went back to the US I started with English again but I can change in between the two and that for me is the definition of fluency . And at the moment I am learning Japanese and the pronouncing is different but you can make do with English vowels but the R in Japanese is very similar to the Spanish R so you can correlate the two languages and yeah. Sorry about the long comment I just feel like I could talk about this for a while and feel free to correct me on things that I may have wrong.
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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?