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Originally Posted by GA Russell
jps, that's something I first heard almost fifty years ago.
The thinking along those lines is that one's thoughts are limited to the vocabulary one knows.
Therefore, a Frenchman will have an idea that an Englishman will not, and vice versa, because the words of every language have their own nuances.
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I remember hearing that only a native can speak a given language properly because we learn our native tongue (English, Spanish, Russian, etc) back when we are very young and the brain is developing. Therefore though we can still learn other languages later we don't quite master them no matter how close we get to doing so.