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comment by Hein
Hein  ·  3175 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does your head use multiple languages?

I wasn't raised bilingual but we used to watch a lot of television and luckily us dutch don't dub but subtitle everything. So I spoke fairly good english and german before I started learning it at school. My english is still a bit of a mish-mash between english and american english. Later I added french and spanish to my vocabulary, but I noticed that the older you get the harder it is to learn a new language. When I was working in Berlin for a while I started to dream in german. And the use of english is now a very large part of my life that I do that in english too. And sometimes a specific language has the best way of communicating a certain meaning that others don't.