>>11280314what if i don't agree to this?
from my understanding that's sort of a given in most scenarios. assuming you're picking up your second language later in life it'll be borderline impossible to reach "true" native fluency and chasing that goal requires doing everything within your power to essentially replace your native language with your target. that isn't to say that it's at all likely you'll come remotely close to losing native fluency in your native language, but if you're going days or weeks or months without speaking it your skills will start to degrade a bit and vocabulary is probably what will go first since there's only so much "space" for words.
or at least that's my understanding. i saw this all in relation to a study showing that natively bi and trilingual children have the same vocabulary size on average as children who only speak one language, it's just that multilingual children have their vocabulary budget split across multiple languages
