Just interview me! I'll tell you what the difference in verb retention and noun retention is. It's called muscle memory. Like when I dance ballet, I count in French. I'm neither a native or heritage speaker of French. I grew up with Spanish and English. I'm a heritage speaker of Spanish. But the muscle memory thing I've noticed even when I'm acquiring a language. I retain things that are paired with action and demand a physical reaction. 🤷🏾♀️ I can't recall the word for spatula in most of the languages I speak, but I can remember the word "to cook" , bc (1) necessity is the mother of retention, and (2) nouns are easier to remember only when they match in multiple languages, which often they do not. For me, it's a lot easier to remember words in multiple languages when they are similar. So in German you'll often hear me use the Latinized verb vs a Germanic verb, z.B. telefonieren vs anrufen. Same for French and Spanish. I just like patterns that make my life easier. The brain is a machine designed for efficiency. No brain is going to go out of its way to work harder to get the same thing accomplished. 🤷🏾♀️ Oh god and gender in nouns is the worrrrst. I hate noun declension. It ruins all the fun and efficiency in a language. That's my two cents. 🤣 I love this video. Randomly came across it, but wow, it sounds like exciting work. I am very jealous of the team that gets to work on this. I am rooting you on!
Yeah, I think I would consider myself an overhearer because I grew up hearing Spanish, but struggle speaking it, and can only understand some phrases. Hope to eventually learn Spanish though.
Just interview me! I'll tell you what the difference in verb retention and noun retention is. It's called muscle memory. Like when I dance ballet, I count in French. I'm neither a native or heritage speaker of French. I grew up with Spanish and English. I'm a heritage speaker of Spanish. But the muscle memory thing I've noticed even when I'm acquiring a language. I retain things that are paired with action and demand a physical reaction. 🤷🏾♀️ I can't recall the word for spatula in most of the languages I speak, but I can remember the word "to cook" , bc (1) necessity is the mother of retention, and (2) nouns are easier to remember only when they match in multiple languages, which often they do not. For me, it's a lot easier to remember words in multiple languages when they are similar. So in German you'll often hear me use the Latinized verb vs a Germanic verb, z.B. telefonieren vs anrufen. Same for French and Spanish. I just like patterns that make my life easier. The brain is a machine designed for efficiency. No brain is going to go out of its way to work harder to get the same thing accomplished. 🤷🏾♀️ Oh god and gender in nouns is the worrrrst. I hate noun declension. It ruins all the fun and efficiency in a language.
That's my two cents. 🤣
I love this video. Randomly came across it, but wow, it sounds like exciting work. I am very jealous of the team that gets to work on this. I am rooting you on!
This is an awesome explanation: illustrative, to the point and with lots of examples. Thank you!
Very interesting!!
Yeah, I think I would consider myself an overhearer because I grew up hearing Spanish, but struggle speaking it, and can only understand some phrases. Hope to eventually learn Spanish though.
often is an adverb, hmm...
“When they count or when they’re scared”.?.explain….?
I think this is "if you ask them to count or something scares them, the language they are using is the dominant one"
So no studying of Native American language speakers...odd and biased
Poor husbands.
"The perfect husbnd"...completely unnecessary comment