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Originally Posted by ApK
 You've forgotten a language you used to know? |
I have stopped using it, and at this moment I speak [and *read* and write] English much better than Russian that used to be my third language. I speak another two languages that I am better at than English. One of them my mother language, of course ;-)
Yes, you can forget a language, especially when it is the one you were forced to learn in school against your will(*) and that you haven't had chance to use in the last 30 years ;-)
It is not entirely forgotten, I can still watch news in Russian(**), but it got *very* rusty.
I have never read a book in Russian, and I have read well over a thousand in English.
(*) your country being a part of Socialistic Block
(**) recently I got a new cable TV installed with a few channels in Russian