I'm going crazy

[Corsu]

I've been speaking the local language at uni, work and with friends for 7 months now. It's going very well.
Except I woke up yesterday to have a complete mental block. I have switched around the numbers 4 and 6 in my head. I hear the right word and it automatically matches with the number 6. or 4.

Please someone tell me that this is a normal part of immersion? I honestly feel so stupid getting it wrong in front of the shopkeeper when I have been chatting to these people quite confidently for several months now!

[butterfliesinmytummy]

Normal. I came back from France after a year and had lost 30% of English vocabulary. Family thought it was hilarious as I searched through a dictionary in order to explain things. Don't stress, it will come back.

[tomatodizzymum]

Normal. The next step is to completely forget English words. I've spent days trying to remember words and not even complicated ones either. The most recent one I forgot was O as in the letter O

[RolodexOfHate]

It's so infuriating!
I've already had a few problems talking to my parents back home. What exactly do we call the old women who do all the odd jobs around the city/ uni/ hotel/ home? I keep calling them Aunties which is obviously very strange!
Same with the air conditioning - I'd never used it before I arrived in China and now the only word that comes to mind is the Chinese!
I'm glad to head it will pass when I return home...

[LikeABadSethRogenMovie]

I live in the US and so it's essentially the same language, but I still get frustrated as I seem to have "forgotten" entirely normal English words on occasion.

[corsu]

I'm very glad to hear this is a common problem. It's still happening, but kind of easing off. Brains! They are just there to cause problems!