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  I get your point, but there's a fun thing, I live currently in another country and I'm obliged to go to school and learn my own native language (teachers don't care it's my native language duh)
  So, basically, I know how it is to learn my native language as a foreign one >
  
  Wow. I suppose you're having very high grades in it? >
  
  For sure lol >
  
  Same with my brother. He chose our native language as second in our school and got 'Exceeding' mark on his report. There was also a note that very few students get this mark on any subject because it requires the deepest level of knowledge and blah blah blah. Now he's being proud of it. >
  
  You do every time you get confused whether you should use "there", "their" and "they're" and have to Google it just in case. >
  
  Sometimes it feels that I'm more fluent at English than some who were raised with it, while I didn't know English at all in the first 10-12 years of my life. >
  
  You probably are. I’ve encountered a lot of native speakers who couldn’t write what you just wrote >
  
  Actually you can… my teacher said that they had a Chinese exchange student once, and he stayed here so long that he lost his ability to speak Mandarin so he couldn’t even have simple conversations with his family on the phone anymore. >
  
  Oh my God, is it even possible? I can't imagine forgetting my first language. >
  
  If you speak another language and use it as your primary instead of your native language then yes you can lose the ability to speak in your native language… you probably wouldn’t forget everything but you might not be able to hold a meaningful conversation. >
  
  Well the closest thing you can get is to repeat a word a bunch of time untill it loses its meaning and see how weird it is. >
  
  It happens all the time. >
  
  ..how Easy* it is ..
  Is this what u meant?
  Yeah, i wonder that sometimes >
  
  
  ..how Easy* it is ..
  Is this what u meant?
  
  It actually depends on what your native language is. >
  
  There's actually a switch in your brain that allows you to do that, it's just very hard to press you might need a sledgehammer >
  
  Unless you have an eidetic memory that stretches back to when you first started learning how to speak.