Thread 212817114

I have no idea when and how I learned english. One day I just woke up and my inner monologue was in english. Does this happen in your country?

don't remember asking

yes

I learned by watching old Batman cartoons and playing games

>>212817114 (OP)
my ancvestorvs conquered the land, and through their memories the echo of this vile and primitive language materialized

The concept of being ESL is so weird to me.
So you grow up speaking this ooga booga language and have to actually LEARN how to speak Human. That's crazy.

>>212819028
Yes, we have to learn how to speak human through our mother language so we can stop talking like babies growing up, but the downside is that we have to learn to speak ooga booga again to communicate to you.

>>212819202
You're literally Mexican. Your mother tongue is the language of gardeners and maids.

>>212819202
Haha you don't even know nahuatl kek you learned spanish and then english because spanish sucks so bad lmao you are a doublecuck

Same
One day, I was just minding my own business and tthen the gods decided to download the entire Lexicon into my head. I couldn't make any sense of it at first, but I managed to learn the grammar and form my own sentences watching British and American television.

>>212819028
Being multilingual is very interesting to me from a neurological perspective. I believe we subconsciously learn to execute several chain of thought pipelines when we learn languages, and we more or less have to abide by them to be able to form sentences. When I am thinking in Turkish for instance it's insanely difficult for me to execute a task where I am mostly dealing with English content, i.e., writing code or summarizing a book. My mental circuits do not fully translate between these two languages because they were formed independently. The opposite is also true. Acting on Turkish content while I am thinking in English is a monumental effort for me.

Despite all that, having all these mental tools that were formed during language acquisition lets you think about things from multiple angles, mapping from conceptual space to multiple linguistic spaces, you can think, describe and act upon problems in multiple ways that wouldn't be possible for a monolingual person.

We form our thoughts and learn to think about concepts through language, after all. So I strongly advise our monolingual friends to learn some other language, be it French or Spanish or any other language you might find interesting.