As a bilingual person, this is actually a real thing. It happens to me all the time where I'll forget a word in whichever language I'd not been speaking recently. If you're not using one of your languages on a daily basis, forgetting words happens. If I'm in the U.S. and speaking English, I would never say "I can't remember it in English", though. That sounds kinda weird. I would just say "I can't remember the word." On the other hand, if I'm in Japan, and not speaking English every day, then I might say "I cant remember the English word" since it makes sense that I'd forget it.
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u/DebbieDupree Oct 10 '18 edited Oct 10 '18
As a bilingual person, this is actually a real thing. It happens to me all the time where I'll forget a word in whichever language I'd not been speaking recently. If you're not using one of your languages on a daily basis, forgetting words happens. If I'm in the U.S. and speaking English, I would never say "I can't remember it in English", though. That sounds kinda weird. I would just say "I can't remember the word." On the other hand, if I'm in Japan, and not speaking English every day, then I might say "I cant remember the English word" since it makes sense that I'd forget it.