Books

Readers who moved abroad: how often do you read in your first language? I primarily read in English but last year I decided to start brushing up my classics. Current read:

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Have to read Russian classics in the original. Just started to build out my collection of classics with Преступление и наказание by Достоевский.

No, it's my mother tongue, but I don't use it that often, so it's slowly slipping away 🙂

Even more so when you move abroad as a teenager. It's so bizarre though, isn't it? The reduced ability to express yourself in your mother tongue, the increasingly limited vocabulary, the inability to discuss certain subjects which you learned entirely in a different language, etc. The list goes on.

Ah gotcha, yes, it slips away even when you move abroad at an older age. Depends on how much you are actually using it. Mine will never fully disappear but it’s getting increasingly harder to express myself