Wednesday, June 22, 2011

How do you keep languages separate?

One topic that seems to come up often in conversations I have with language-learners is the subject of mixing up languages in your head. Often people ask me "how do you keep all those languages separate?" and others ask, almost in disbelief, "don't they all eventually blend together?"

But they don't blend together, and it's actually not at all difficult to keep them separate.

Compared to the average American, I may speak a lot of languages, but compared to many other cultures around the world,... continue reading at Fluent Every Year