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What are language interferences ? I guys today I will talk about language interferences ! First you will ask me what's that creepy thing . And then I will ask you. Have you ever respond to someone in an other language than the one you were currently using or spoken in Chinglish (it's weird especially if you aren't chinese, chinese learner know what I mean :p)? People who can speak many languages ,usually 4 or more and sometime just 3 , can have problem searching the right language to use when they speak or the right Grammar (here comes the Chinglish). For me it have begun when I began to learn German I was always messing up German and English while speaking German, but I got no problem with other languages. Then I have begun to learn Chinese, and so now I know 4 languages :p. But why does those language interferences happen? It's quite simple you can't distinguish completly the different languages you know, then when you know 2 or more languages you learn the next ones by making parallels and analogies (seriously it really help ^^). Thus the frontiers between the languages you know become very tiny and you begin to make mistakes and even in your own mother tongue. (Yeah that's creepy ^^) But in the same time you have to always take care about how you are making your sentences, applying the Grammar , using the right words . And it's very funny ,because you speak better all the languages you currently know (even your mother tongue). But it raise up some big problems like how can you switch your accent from french accent to english or american one (personaly I need to speak english for 10 minutes before getting the right accent )? Then the sentence constructions are so different ( french, german, english, and chinese don't use the same patterns to build sentences). Morover the words don't have the same meanings in each language and also don't have the same gender (when you say das Mädschen in german "neutral" , or la jeune fille in french "female" . For people who don't speak either french nor german it means the young girl) .The gender point is maybe the most difficult in learning languages(that's why I like chinese and english ^^). Last thing when you know and use many languages you are thinking in different languages at the same time , and when one is drunk or really tired one can use the wrong language without noticing it and it's realy funny ;-). So thank you guys for reading it and maybe talk to you on skype or talk with you about something else ! Bye ! Tschuss! 再见 !

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Sometimes I feel like I can't speak ANY language! I just stand there with my mouth open, even if I'm speaking in English because all my words have left me! I think language learning can fry your brain for a while :D

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