army1987 comments on AALWA: Ask any LessWronger anything - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2014 05:15:13PM *  6 points [-]

I feel uncomfortable speaking another language (it has a cognitive cost, so I feel I sound more stupid than I would in my language).

Speaking in a language I'm not fluent in (and in a cultural context I'm not familiar with) makes me feel like an idiot savant, because it destroys my social skills while keeping my abstract reasoning/mental arithmetic skills intact.