Language Problem (does anybody else experience this)? I don't have a strong enough grasp on Spanish or Japanese to articulate this properly, so I want to ask in English. I used to study Japanese all through high school. Later on in college, I was required to take French. Now I am studying Spanish, and I have noticed that whenever I am speaking a new language, if there is vocabulary I forget in that language, instead of thinking about it and trying to remember the proper word in that language, I automatically blurt out the word in Japanese. For example, in French class, if I was asked what my name was and I wanted to respond, "My name is Corrie." Instead of answering, "Je m'appelle Corrie," i would blurt out, "Je namae wa Corrie." I experience this in Spanish, too. Especially with showing ownership. If I am trying to say "Miguel's book" for example, it comes out as, "Miguel no libro" using the Japanese particle "no" instead of "El libro de Miguel" I don't do this in writing. But when I speak it happens automatically. Does anybody else experience this, reaching for their second language when they can't find a word in their current language? Why does this happen? Is there any way to make this go away?