Here is an interesting article posted in BBC Mundo yesterday about language.
Is it possible to lose your native language meaning lose the ability to speak your first language or mother tongue.
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/vert-fut-44959894
It is an interesting question and the article presents thought-provoking concepts about what many foreigners experience regarding language when they move away from their home country. The experience is different for everyone over a period of time as to what happens to their native German, Spanish, Arabic etc or whatever the language in question may be after years of living abroad. The article compares the experiences of groups of speakers of the same native language but in diferent countries and what has happened. For example, Spaniards in England and how their Spanish may have changed vs. Cubans in Miami and how their Spanish may have changed or actually becomes influenced by the other Spanish-speaking groups in Miami.
The article also touches on what happens with your brain as it has to make room for another language and up to what age a child who moves away from their native country can maintain their native language.
-MP.
Is it possible to lose your native language meaning lose the ability to speak your first language or mother tongue.
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/vert-fut-44959894
It is an interesting question and the article presents thought-provoking concepts about what many foreigners experience regarding language when they move away from their home country. The experience is different for everyone over a period of time as to what happens to their native German, Spanish, Arabic etc or whatever the language in question may be after years of living abroad. The article compares the experiences of groups of speakers of the same native language but in diferent countries and what has happened. For example, Spaniards in England and how their Spanish may have changed vs. Cubans in Miami and how their Spanish may have changed or actually becomes influenced by the other Spanish-speaking groups in Miami.
The article also touches on what happens with your brain as it has to make room for another language and up to what age a child who moves away from their native country can maintain their native language.
-MP.