What's the first philosophical question you can remember thinking? Mine: Why am I not someone else? What makes me *me*?
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Happened to me all the time growing up trilingually. In young age people considered me slow cause I was juggling many languages at once.
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I think we are slower actually. The data seems to show at catch up though.
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Not an expert, tagging those who might know more:
@chbergma But you might wanna see stuff on this, if you're curious.https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/bilingual-children-lag-behind-in-language-learning-early-on-but-catch-up-by-age-five-46781 … -
Obviously though, you/we are "slower" than monolinguals though. You're/we're learning something much harder.
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As far as I know - but there are real bilingualism experts out there, of course, I study monolinguals because that's complicated enough - it really depends on what we're looking at, language is so complex. If we just count words, yes, in one language it looks slow
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But: if you count the words learned in all languages, bilinguals are completely on par with monolinguals. And that's not even touching on the ability to separate languages, which your anecdotes imo show.
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Is this anything like not recognising someone because they are out of the usual context in which you meet them? (a common problem I have!)
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Are you prosopagnosic?
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Only very slightly, the only time I don’t recognise people is out of context when I haven’t seen them recently
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Thanks :-)
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It's not that rare IIRC.
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So for a moment, I knew what English would have sounded like had I not ever learned it. Kind of. I guess!
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