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Maxwell's avatar

I can only say for myself that even with very limited knowledge of a language the brain can accomplish astounding things.

2 weeks ago I was with my crush and talked to him in Ukrainian, he answered in Ukrainian and I was overly happy. Well…. I was confused that suddenly I was laying on my bed, realizing it was just a dream. My mother tongue (German) wasn’t a part of the dream at all, neither was my second language (English). The entire dream was coherent, the entire dream made sense and everything that was said during the dream was perfectly fine grammar wise, sentences were complete even though my vocabulary barely consists of a few hundred words.

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Shamar Loi's avatar

I love this! I just wish I could figure out how to make the brain do what I want. Thanks for sharing your findings as well.

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