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Ay-Nawn  ·  3112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Hubski, what language do you speak?

I get the impression that English's lack of signifying prefixes/suffixes regarding gender or people, for example, is part of my difficulty learning other languages with seemingly more complex grammar. Kudos.

    It's more of a matter of connections between shapes, sounds or memories.

I can attest to a similar experience. More so a collection of loosely related ideas or flashbacks in sequence rather than words per se.

    If I 'hear' myself in the head it's usually the language I'm focusing on. If I'm learning/speaking English, it's English etc.

Ah, yes. This always is fascinating to me. To learn a language to a point that your brain (or you) can encode and interpret information in a form other than your native or preferred medium.