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Q: Does speaking only with non-natives negatively affect linguistic expression long-term?
Does conversing with people who speak in Chinglish negativity affect one' s own erudition? Sometimes I feel that my higher linguistic levels of expression are escaping out of my ears. What d'ya think?
You tend to pick the talking habits of those around you with sufficient time of exposure. It is not days or weeks, it will require months, maybe years of exposure, but you definitively will. I spend 20 years between hillbillies and coonasses, back in the bayous of Lousiana. Then the next 20 was with people from Puerto Rico. So, gumbo and red beans are two of my favorite dishes. And if you hear me talking, you will wonder where I was born.
HugAPanda:
I dunno, Happy. When I was 14 I went to the UK for two weeks, and when I returned home, I was speaking like a Brit, accent, terminology and all LOL But when I was 14, all my friends and I wished we were British.
When you say negatively, do you mean things like "
X country stinks" or do you mean using "chinglish"?
I don't beleive it destroys what you've learned, just pushes it back (so to speak) while you're learning to communicate in the environment you're in. When you return to your previous environment or the like, your communication skills will return.
You get used to speaking the broken english (overly simplified english) in daily conversations and emails that it will show in your daily speech and writing. This depends on the person and how long you are here.... but you will notice the change.
