Unlearning

-Removed-

That's not up for discussion.
You can call me all the names you want but that subject is closed.

I'm back in Dublin Ireland now looking for a new job.

I don't like these zoom meetings. Somehow it doesn't feel like a proper interview.

Back in my day you would go to the firm and if they liked what they saw they would hire you.

-Removed-

My education, qualifications, skills, talents and wonderful personality are all available to prospective employers 😁

@fmf said
Have you ever unlearned anything?

I was able to get by in French in 1991 when I started learning Indonesian. I soon found that the new foreign language deleted the previous one in my room-for-only brain. As I learned Indonesian, I unlearned French. I cannot think of a whole a sentence in French nowadays or understand French language YouTube clips. As fluent as I may be now in the language I use here every day, I am not a linguist ~ that much is clear.

@fmf said
I was able to get by in French in 1991 when I started learning Indonesian. I soon found that the new foreign language deleted the previous one in my room-for-only brain. As I learned Indonesian, I unlearned French. I cannot think of a whole a sentence in French nowadays or understand French language YouTube clips. As fluent as I may be now in the language I use here every day, I am not a linguist ~ that much is clear.

I have heard that the blonde girl from ABBA has forgotten all her English and now lives as a recluse on an island off Sweden. Only speaks Swedish now.

Maybe the Swedish lady Torunn might confirm that.

@instantkarma777 said
I have heard that the blonde girl from ABBA has forgotten all her English and now lives as a recluse on an island off Sweden. Only speaks Swedish now.

This wouldn't be true, as you yourself will know with you being a "language specialist" and all. She may not use English nowadays, but she won't have "forgotten all her English", not after 40+ years as an international globetrotting celebrity - unless she is seriously cognitively impaired. But you'll know this already. As a "language specialist". Right?

@fmf said
This wouldn't be true, as you yourself will know with you being a "language specialist" and all. She may not use English nowadays, but she won't have "forgotten all her English", not after 40+ years as an international globetrotting celebrity - unless she is seriously cognitively impaired. But you'll know this already. As a "language specialist". Right?

You know what they say, use it or lose it.

@instantkarma777 said
You know what they say, use it or lose it.

Yes, but no one loses a language they spoke for a lifetime, as you well know. I lost schoolboy French that got used for two weeks every three years.

@fmf said
Yes, but no one loses a language they spoke for a lifetime, as you well know. I lost schoolboy French that got used for two weeks every three years.

Go and look up articles on her and you will see that she is a recluse, lives on an island and is not comfortable speaking English anymore.

@instantkarma777 said
I was a language specialist.

Are you sure?

@instantkarma777 said
I don't have any bias.

I'm just trying to be nice and calm and logical and sensible.

Why must you try to take sides?

I respect all. Even those who don't like me.

I have declared my true identity to Ghost and to Ponderable and to Drewnogal .

I have nothing to hide.
You can speak to them if you want to.

It really isn't even important to me, if you feel you don't want to say, all the same to me. Really I just don't care!

Try harder to be nice and calm and logical not to mention sensible.

I asked you a simple question is all and you make a big deal about it.

I have a pretty good idea who you are anyways.

-VR

@instantkarma777 said
Go and look up articles on her and you will see that she is a recluse, lives on an island and is not comfortable speaking English anymore.

You said she "has forgotten all her English". But now you're saying she can speak English but she is "not comfortable" doing so? So your anecdote is changing?

@fmf said
I was able to get by in French in 1991 when I started learning Indonesian. I soon found that the new foreign language deleted the previous one in my room-for-only brain. As I learned Indonesian, I unlearned French. I cannot think of a whole a sentence in French nowadays or understand French language YouTube clips. As fluent as I may be now in the language I use here every day, I am not a linguist ~ that much is clear.

I'm guessing that you never learned to speak Dutch then? Nah, you likely weren't in Indonesia in prior to 1949.