I can't believe it ! I suppose I can really knowing myself , but that post I posted about the charity work . I thought I posted it in " how as your day been * I went into that thread and could not find it . Then went looking for my last post and found it in hear lol .
Anyway
Last night............
D `I`m losing my language.`
S `What do you mean?`
D `I`m losing my English.`
S `You are speaking in English to me, now. I can`t understand Hindi or Bengali. If you didn`t speak English I wouldn`t know what you were saying.`
D `Are you sure? What a relief.
That sounds very interesting , only because " D " saying " I`m losing my language "
My own observation from my mother , and myself I wonder if " D " is now Thinking in own native language .
When someone can speak 2 Languages and English is not they first Language they main thinking, talking to themselves is done in their 1 st. language in the brain ( if you get my point ) .
where with I , my thinking self talking is done in English . My mother thinking talking self - taking is done in Spanish, as she was never into learning the english language as my father did .
My mother had stages that she would talk to me only in Spanish and to her grandchildren , but with promoting and reminding her what she was doing , she would go back into talking in English .
Amazing really that " D " aware what is happening to himself, as I wonder if his thinking to himself was done mainly in English Like mine is .
But now all his thinking self talk is done mostly in his fist language , his worried about it , because he must know that you won't understand what his saying if he did . so his telling you it , but in the wrong way .
I would not worry about it , just reassure him , that if it did happen your just prompt him to talk English
my mother is in a later stage then " D " she slip back into talking Spanish . but when prompted she talk in English , what helps I would think is " D " hearing lots of people around him still talking in English . TV. radio , family .
My mother was never aware she was doing it to tell me what was happening , where with " D " his aware of it so share it with you.
PS
its a shame really that they not a club you could take him to so he could speak Hindi or Bengali.