I don't know. I feel lucky that I understood anything at all. It may all depend on the child -- whatever they want to do. Sometimes forcing children to do something, and being strict does not work at all. I think even if they deprived me of all my belongings, I would not speak certain dialects I was exposed to in my childhood, although I understand them well. The sounds would not even be able leave my throat.
(some varieties spoken by the children, or even adults, not necessarily my family members)
I don't exactly know what it might feel like when certain family members do not understand the others languages, because in my family, after all, most people could communicate in some of the languages. My grandmother -- my mother's mother, did not understand Lithuanian at all, and used to get quite upset when my father spoke Lithuanian with his father, when he forgot that she was around. It was considered very rude to speak another language around other people who did not understand it.
I don't exactly know what it might feel like when certain family members do not understand the others languages, because in my family, after all, most people could communicate in some of the languages. My grandmother -- my mother's mother, did not understand Lithuanian at all, and used to get quite upset when my father spoke Lithuanian with his father, when he forgot that she was around. It was considered very rude to speak another language around other people who did not understand it.
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