Sometimes I worry about my brain.

[13chapters]

So, one thing about me is that I am a linguistic dilettante. I love to start learning new languages, but once they get challenging, I tend to move on to something new. The only language besides English that I really legitimately speak is Bulgarian, but I didn't have a lot of options there, and I was pretty motivated to learn to speak it since I,

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[epicycles]

LOL this happens to me CONSTANTLY. I'm a language dilettante as well -- I speak passable French, a smattering of Japanese and Spanish. Whenever I travel I take a phrase book and get up to order-food-and-ask-where-the-bathroom-is fluency before losing it all when I return. So I end up recognizing words but not knowing what language it is all the time!

It happens when I speak too. I was lucky enough to have a roommate who also spoke French and Japanese on my level, so we spoke this bizarre mash-up language sometimes depending on which language we could remember the word in. :)

[belleweather]

Living and working in a community of polyglots, I am reliably informed that this is common and does not indicate brain breakage. It also fucks up your life when you're taking work-related language tests -- a big part of the reason the Federal government believes I speak better Russian than Spanish.

[toronja]

A+ for this entire post :D

[oywidapoodles]

One of my friends is totally fluent in French, and she'll have that happen where she can't remember if a word is English or French. And English is her first language too.