Do you ever forget how language works?

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Sometimes, mostly when someone speaks to me unexpectedly, I have a moment or two in which I can perfectly hear all the syllables that a person is saying to me, but I cannot make them form words. It's just noise. I have to ask them to repeat themselves.

Other times, words just sound strange. All of a sudden, words I use every day will sound foreign to me. Does any of this happen to you?

You should read about central auditory processing disorder (CAPD or just APD).

I experience something similar. For me, it is sort of a delay in processing. If I wait, sometimes I can understand what they said without them repeating it. I don't know if this is the same thing as APD or not.

Thank you, I'll look it up.

I'm kinda like that. People think that I have a hearing problem or something because I'm always asking 'what?'. But usually I can get what they've said before they've had a chance to repeat it. I guess I just need more time to process things before they make sense to me.

Yes.

Yes, but not very often. Sometimes I forget how to understand the language being spoken to me... completely.

How it works? Not really. I have difficulty recalling specific words at times, but I think that happens to everyone. Incorrect grammar vexes me and therefore I don't forget how it works.

However, if I'm speaking in a foreign language in an academic environment (example: my prof asked us in Russian about nationalities, but he switched it up so that he wasn't asking the same version of the question to each student. While I know the answer, "Ya amerikanka" or "Nyet, ya nye (nationality)" the thought of not knowing the question stumped me and I had to really think about it, even though I often slip into Russian when I'm speaking to my English speaking friends) I do sometimes have difficulty remembering the format for my response. But this doesn't happen to me in English or outside of a classroom where I might be graded.