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How do multilingual people balance and maintain each of their languages
>>212360846 (OP)Speak English with englishers
speak German with germanx
Simple as
>>212360846 (OP)I use English at work, Italian at home and I chat every day for 2 hours in Russian with my girlfriend
by exposing yourself to them. tv, radio/podcasts in the background, youtube, rss, setting your devices like your phone to your target language, whatever works really.
I maintain my English language skills by listening to music and browsing 4chan
>>212360846 (OP)Automatic translation of documents and program outputs makes me angry. For some reason Microsoft decided I need to read their documentation in Polish.
>>212361468Painfully accurate, good luck googling some error message in anything but english.
>>212360846 (OP)when speaking to people of language A i speak language A
when speaking to people of language B i speak language B
למשל אם אני מתחיל לדבר איתך עברית עכשיו אתה לא תבין מה אני אומר ולכן אני מעדיף להחליף לאנגלית
>>212360846 (OP)we don't
we just forget everything all the time