Also: does it hinder their progress at each language?
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Something I remember hearing about a long time ago, about people who speak more than one language, is that they tend to have different personalities with each language.
That could be construed as tone, pitch, emotion, rhythm, gestures, posture, and so many other little things that people pick up on, especially at a subconscious level.
Children are very good at picking this sort of thing up because their brains are much more receptive to taking in information and parsing it out. It’s a big reason why babies who are talked to like adults, rather than with the goo goo gah gah baby voice, learn to speak at a younger age.
From personal experience, when I was in high school I was super obsessed with Rammstein, and then from there it expanded out to other German bands like Oomph and Megaherz. I got to a point where I could muddle my way through a conversation in German, and one of the things I still remember vividly is that when I was practicing the language, it felt like my brain had to physically change gears, so to speak, in order for me to get into a German “mode”. If I had the presence of mind back then to record myself and play it back, I probably wouldn’t recognize myself because of the difference.
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