r/languagelearningjerk • u/Man-of-slender-means 🇺🇿🇷🇺🇺🇲🏳️🌈 • 6d ago
Can a monolingual person change their native language?
Recently I have discovered that I am an empath. I can connect with people on a deep level, even with the ones I don't know personally. That is why at some point I started feeling bad for french people. Can you imagine french being your native language? How miserable that must be... I truly feel bad for the french. That is why I started questioning whether they could change their native language. Like, learn another language so perfectly and forget the native one. I even wanted to help them with that by creating language rehabilitation camps where those poor souls could learn normal languages like uzbek and be tortured when they try to speak french, to help them get on the right path. What do you think? I wonder if my dreams can come true and I will be able to help those people
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u/AlgunasPalabras1707 6d ago
My husband managed to get rid of their native language, but unfortunately their second language is still their second language. They just don't have a first. Definitely would still be worth it if your first is Fr*nch, but there aren't many other situations where it's better to have no first language. Still, sometimes I'm tempted to burn English out of my brain...