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Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Archive link, for those who are paywalled.

The text is interesting, and it confirms a suspicion that I had that L1 is not written in stone, or that your languages are not like a swamp ogre, full of layers. I wish that I could contribute more to this topic but language acquisition and attrition is rather far from my "turf".