Please don't make fun of my situation, it's very real and scary.
I'm a Bengali with very poor hindi ( can understand it mostly, but can barely read and speak horribly) My English was not very bad, as it was the prime medium of studies.
Till 2014-15 Bangla (95 percent of time) and some English were the predominant language of communication.
Then I landed in a series of non English speaking countries where most of my colleagues and friends are/ were not fluent in English. For last 2-3 years except speaking in seminars, use of English language got smaller and smaller as I became fluent in Czech/ Slovak and reasonably good in French.
I taught in some medical colleges online last year and had to go through Czech textbooks and it was a cakewalk.
Now, we are in a city where many people can and do speak English and I'm finding it exceedingly difficult to maintain a communication in English, constantly forgetting very common words, but the reading skills are relatively intact. Can read for hours without any problem in comprehending.
The Bengali is completely intact, can read, write, speak fluently.
But I used to think in Bengali, now it's Czech.
We watch English movies, news, listen to music all the time and it's not a problem at all, but just can't speak fluently anymore.
My wife actually noticed this linguistic regression few days back and got very worried ( thought I'm having a stroke)
Now I'm also worried, as writing is also getting difficult!! Keep on forgetting words...
It's not a problem yet, I spoke to a neurologist, she thinks it's psychological after going through a lot of tests ( from simple MMSE to very complex linguistic tests)
It took me close to 30 minutes to write this, shouldn't take more than 5 ( wrote the entire thing in Czech in less than 7 minutes)
Copy pasting it from a medical forum post, hope there's nothing objectionable ( I'm not sure anymore)
I'm a Bengali with very poor hindi ( can understand it mostly, but can barely read and speak horribly) My English was not very bad, as it was the prime medium of studies.
Till 2014-15 Bangla (95 percent of time) and some English were the predominant language of communication.
Then I landed in a series of non English speaking countries where most of my colleagues and friends are/ were not fluent in English. For last 2-3 years except speaking in seminars, use of English language got smaller and smaller as I became fluent in Czech/ Slovak and reasonably good in French.
I taught in some medical colleges online last year and had to go through Czech textbooks and it was a cakewalk.
Now, we are in a city where many people can and do speak English and I'm finding it exceedingly difficult to maintain a communication in English, constantly forgetting very common words, but the reading skills are relatively intact. Can read for hours without any problem in comprehending.
The Bengali is completely intact, can read, write, speak fluently.
But I used to think in Bengali, now it's Czech.
We watch English movies, news, listen to music all the time and it's not a problem at all, but just can't speak fluently anymore.
My wife actually noticed this linguistic regression few days back and got very worried ( thought I'm having a stroke)
Now I'm also worried, as writing is also getting difficult!! Keep on forgetting words...
It's not a problem yet, I spoke to a neurologist, she thinks it's psychological after going through a lot of tests ( from simple MMSE to very complex linguistic tests)
It took me close to 30 minutes to write this, shouldn't take more than 5 ( wrote the entire thing in Czech in less than 7 minutes)
Copy pasting it from a medical forum post, hope there's nothing objectionable ( I'm not sure anymore)