/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14425668]

Can you ever really master two languages equally?
I noticed that when I write in my native I can't write as well in english afterwards, and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.14425773]

I was brought up with both English and Spanish (american mom and spanish dad). I speak Spanish in my day to day, but most of what I read/watch is in English. It varies for me: sometimes its easier to speak English and sometimes its easier to speak Spanish. Not really sure why that is though. To answer your question I'd say probably not. I guess there are certain advantages, I've noticed a boost in vocabulary both ways, but I sometimes stumble when I haven't had to use English in a while.

[Anonymous No.14425777]

>>14425668
equally, yes
simultaneously, no

[Anonymous No.14425878]

>>14425777
do you mean I have to give a break after writing on one before starting on another one?

[Anonymous No.14426012]

>>14425668
yes

what a dumb angloid question to ask

[Anonymous No.14426124]

>>14425773
Same but with swedish and somewhat fluent spanish. When ive spoken spanish all day i tend to think in spanish, same with english. When i spend time with swedish relatives intensely as in this holiday season, my thoughts are in swedish.
I say fluency and ability to use a language depends on the intensity with which you’re using it. I love all three languages, they all have their own infinite personality and 100% fluency is impossible

[Anonymous No.14426150]

>>14425668
Writers who are well gifted in many tongues usually run into the problem of mashing up languages such as a French guy who writes in English as if it were French and vice versa. Voltaire lamented how in his days students were taught Latin and ancient Greek as children when their French was shit. Why learn another language when you haven't mastered your native tongue?
Yet, in the end, writers with multiple languages will have an edge simply by the wealth of numerous fountains of languages from which their mind can drink. Or a defect...
Shakespeare knew little Latin and less Greek; yet wrote in such perfect English.

[Anonymous No.14426180]

>>14425668
Dante could write poems in Latin and speak to the Pope in Latin; he wrote the Divine comedy in Italian and talked with the peasants in Italian.
You don't have to be a genius to be highly competent in just two languages. Being a monolingual monkey is simply a recent degeneration.

[Anonymous No.14426720]

>>14425668
Yes.
Oui.

[Anonymous No.14426804]

>>14425668
Yes.
Oui.
Ja (dutch).
Ja (german).

[Anonymous No.14427009]

>>14426180
less people were multilingual before. multilingualism is a product of globalisation

[Anonymous No.14427030]

>>14427009
How can you be so wrong? Is this really what you think? If anything globalization has homogenized language(s).

[Anonymous No.14427033]

English is the only real language. 2020 we can stop pretending...

[Anonymous No.14427040]

>>14427030
people never really left his own land to live on a foreign soil before. There was no need to learn a foreign language

[Anonymous No.14427054]

>>14425668
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[Anonymous No.14427070]

>>14427040
see 800 years of mercantilism with an even greater variety of languages and regional dialects

see just the history of the city of Venice

what are you talking about

[Anonymous No.14427166]

>>14427040
what is trade.