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Sparsile · 4548 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hubski multi-linguists, How Different Is Your Personality Between The Languages That You Can Speak?
There could definitely be some truth in that! When I think about it, almost all of the "research" I have done into just about anything I can think of right now had been in English. So the vocabulary I used to think and talk about those subjects were English. Maybe it is then more difficult to discuss those same subjects in another language (Dutch for me) than in the language I usually use to think/talk about those subjects. That might also explain why there is a sense of uneasiness when using the Dutch to discuss those subjects, because I am simply not sure of how exactly to word my thoughts vocabulary-wise. Maybe this also applies to your wife when she feels she can't speak clearly about something in Chinese?