I am native level fluent in 2 languages – Slovenian and English – and this feels true to my experience. There’s a lot of stuff I can critically think about in English because the words don’t carry much/any emotional weight. They’re just abstract concepts, very easy to be coldly objective.

Meanwhile talking about work stuff in Slovenian is near impossible because most of my career has been in English. It’s like the concepts just don’t exist in the Slovenian part of my brain.

This gets really trippy when the same word in each language feels like it carries different connotations and baggage. The translation is same but the meaning is different because the correct where you’d use each word is different.