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Losing my skill of German.
Hey everybody. Today I arrived back from my holiday. When I was on the flight home we had just pulled into my home place in the airport and I noticed someone on the plane said 'Keine Tasche'. Now I didn't understand this 'although I should have' and when we departed the plane I grabbed my mum's phone and looked up 'Tasche'. I should know this but after a whole 6 or so days I have lost some of my german vocabulary 'only temporarily I reckon. Has anyone else experienced this drastic loss of their skill in German after just a few days?
grüße liebe
cluney
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I guess that the brain is like a muscle - if you don't use it, it will become weak in no time. On the other hand - do you really expect to activate a language skill that quick? Unless you're in a position where your brain sees your second language the same way as your first you'll allways need a few words (or even sentences) to understand the words spoken. So, everything is still natural, don't worry.