My friends speak Dutch and for a while. I’ve been trying to learn Dutch. We can text in Dutch (very casually) and when they speak to me in Dutch I am able to understand what they are saying (or at least pick it apart to understand generally what they are saying) . but when it comes to me trying to say Dutch words or speak Dutch my brain all of a sudden has no memory of everything I’ve learned.
I have a friend also whos mom speaks Portuguese and he understands her completely but he responds in English and doesn’t really speak Portuguese himself?
Why does this happen??
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Along with what everyone else has said, there is also the bit about your tongue being a muscle. It has practiced for so long making those little moves in the mouth to create words in your native language. It needs the time to build up the muscle memory to create new sounds.
Do you happen to use auto-complete feature in phone, where the phone will complete words/phrases for you based on context? Because if you use that, you can afford to remember less when you write. Have you tried writing text by hand in Dutch?
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