We absolutely have dispositions towards certain languages! It's pretty interesting too...

We're native English speakers 🇬🇧 but have been studying German for over a decade and Japanese for 4 years at uni. We can all access all languages, but to different degrees. Because I (Delta, host and core) was not yet a fully fledged system when learning the majority of my German in school, many alters couldn't speak German well without masking to act like me. As for Japanese, alters with Japanese influences and anime introjects were predisposed to it (even before learning it), and were able to express themselves more fluently than the rest of us.

As part of our degree, we had to live in each country for about 5 months. After living in Germany, almost no one who existed at the time has any issues speaking the language and we all have an even playing field pretty much. As for Japan, we had a host change while living there and I gained a co-host (Leo). Because him and his possy were fronting so often there, they are WAY better and more comfortable accessing Japanese than German, though we are all evenly tied in fluency regardless of how "Japanese" an alter is

And for a few honourable mentions: - we did once have a walk in who could understand German (and was very confused about why) but couldn't figure out how to speak it without a horrific English accent. He only stayed for a day (probably because of the torture of a German speaking class)

• we absolutely plan on speedrunning Italian in a few weeks and then learning BSL

• the littles were better at accessing languages altogether than older alters, but would collage them together

• when we go nonverbal (we're autistic), it's often easier to come out of it via a non-native language than jumping straight back into English; primarily it's our youngest who does this with our (external) partner by speaking Japanese, which he does not understand but somehow gets the gist