Maybe I am forgetting my English, but this is a country of so many languages that overall I’m increasing my vocabulary.  Unfortunately I’m making soup out of it.  When I was saying ‘let’s go’ to an Arab friend as we finished our coffee date, I blurted out ‘Davai,’ which was Russian instead of ‘Yalla.’  But on the other hand I understood the Arab conversation of the others, and of course I can switch back and forth from English to Hebrew without thinking.  And when I came home my friend in Yiddish called and we wandered back and forth in three languages.  

So I guess I have no excuse to complain about losing languages.  And I wonder whether it isn’t true for others as well…