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Knowing multiple languages, I have found that the languages I'm fluent in have their own "buckets" of words, and then I have a 3rd "bucket" with all the other languages.

This means that if I'm focusing on a specific new language, and I'm missing a word or phrase, I'll use one from a different language that I know a little bit of.

Earlier today my husband was speaking Korean to me, a language we're both learning, and I wanted to respond with, "That's me!" But I don't know the Korean words for that, so I tried with the russian "Eta ja", but realized that he doesn't know what that means 🤣

Years ago when I was trying to learn some Russian, I'd add some French into it when I was missing words, as I'd learned French in Junior high.

Languages are fun, and knowing a little bit of lots of them can make for some extra funny conversations 🤣🤣🤣

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Rustypuppy 1y ago

I studied German in high school, then nothing for over a decade. When I started learning Japanese, if I couldn’t remember the Japanese word, sometimes the German equivalent would pop up. 🇩🇪🇯🇵

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AnnSofiNovelist 1y ago

Isn't that funny!

I sometimes even found that I remembered more French than I did while taking it, years later. 🤣

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