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Is this weird?
My grandparents used to speak to me in a different language and well I grew up with a grandparent that couldn't speak English at all. It's been like 5-6 years since their deaths but I can still understand the language when spoken. I cannot speak it, read it or write it.. but I can understand most of it when people talk. How does this work when there's this huge gap in between? Do I only remember because my grandparents spoke it since my birth and the following years.. did it stick to my memory or? I can't make sense of it really.
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It's not weird at all. I too grew up in this type of situation, as did my children. We all speak English and Spanish resulting from it. Since you already understand, why not cultivate it and learn to write, read and speak it. It's very helpful to know more than one language in today's society. It also is cause reason for higher pay in the working world. It provides you with versitility. It isn't weird, it's a blessing!
It doesn't work when there's a gap, so try to bridge it so there isn't a gap in between. You heard it while in the womb, therefore it's innate, which means you were born into it. You couldn't speak as a child, and so makes sense that you wouldn't speak it now,unless you were speaking it as a child. We were around it before birth,spoken to in English and Spanish so that we would understand both languages. Yes, it stuck to your memory also, just as the language you learned to speak. Hope this has helped.
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well its a little weird to not be able to speak it at all, but its fairly common to be able to understand a language fairly well long before you can speak it fluently. i took spanish in high school, and dont remember very much of it, but i can still get the general gist of a conversation, but cant produce many words or sentences myself. listening, reading, writing, and speaking all involce different areas of the brain, especially with writing if you are right handed. recognition is also an easier task for the brain than production. also, language learning is far easier when you are younger, even before you can really understand whats going on, your brain is forming connections in the brain based on what you are seeing and hearing, so its quite likely you heard the language alot as a baby, and before you learned to talk, so the understanding connection were formed well, but the speaking ones werent. since you have the understanding, it should be easier for you to learn to speak and read/write it if you decide to.
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No, it's not weird.
I know someone whose parents spoke Spanish. She can't speak, read, or write Spanish, but she understands it when it's spoken to her.
How does that happen? I don't honestly know that.
But I do know it isn't weird.
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