Hacker News: Swoerdshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SwoerdsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:39:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Swoerds in "Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)"]]>I visited my mom's uncle when I backpacked in Australia, he moved there from the Netherlands at a young age. He could still speak a few words, but definitely wouldn't be able to hold a full conversation in Dutch.

I'm Natively Dutch myself but live in Denmark, and sometimes also struggle to find the correct Dutch words when talking to my friends. Not that my Danish great, my partner isn't Danish and since I work at an international company, the default language is English.

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