Did you experience any side effects of learning Japanese?

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1. When I was studying it way more than I used English…for about 12 hours every day there came a point where I felt I was making too many mistakes in English I would have never made…..looking back at it that probably was just a state of mind and not reality…maybe I always made those mistakes and because I was learning a language I became self aware…idk

2. Japanese is my third lanaguge, and the further I got in my Japanese studies the worse my English and native language got. I think it’s pretty natural though. Even before I started learning Japanese I’d have problems remembering certain words in my native language and having to substitute them with English words in conversations. It’s just a side effect of knowing multiple languages at once, and most bilinguals I know experience the same thing, especially if they learned the second language later on in their life.

3. I’m fluent in 5 languages. I didn’t converse in one particular language as I moved away from that community and it did weaken a bit. But imo once you are good enough already or after a certain level, you won’t worsen in that language anymore.

4. My English would go brrr because i got used to say things like makudonarudo no aisukurimu instead of mcdonalds icecream

5. English is not my first language but I had after being abroad for studying and using English everyday for study and work to the point I started to forget words in Italian