Why do we never lose certain skills we have learned, even if we haven’t practiced them for a long time. like for example riding a bicycle, and we lose some, like a new language we learned 10 years ago but can’t remember anything about it now?

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Why do we never lose certain skills we have learned, even if we haven’t practiced them for a long time. like for example riding a bicycle, and we lose some, like a new language we learned 10 years ago but can’t remember anything about it now?

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I was a linguist at one point in my life. It was odd to me that I dreamed fluently. Like really way more fluent than I was. I feel like if I went to the country I was a linguist for, in, whatever, it would take me a year to be fluent again. I currently after 30ish years of not doing that, I’ve forgotten 90 percent of what I once knew