This chapter opens with a reminder: how much of your high school French do you remember?
Maybe enough to order a drink or ask where the library is?
For most people, studying a language at school doesn’t allow them to achieve true fluency.
But what about your native language?
Is it possible for someone who’s bilingual or multilingual to unlearn their first language?
The short answer is yes, kind of.
It’s certainly possible.
Also, people who are multi-lingual can forget the grammar and vocabulary quickly through a process called language attrition.
What is language attrition?
According to Professor Monika S. Schmid, a linguist from the University of York in the United Kingdom, there’s a whole field of
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