Retrieving a language of your youth

Here’s a really good description of a person who spoke a language as a second language and as a child, abandoning it around age 10, but then going back to the country and using the language to good effect. This is Pres. Obama returning to Indonesia. a close analysis of his use of Indonesian in a speech and other contexts.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2765

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