Psychologists have guessed that Conrad associated these other languages withunpleasant experiences-his exile, his parents' deaths, his attempted suicide.Also, the experiences that shaped Conrad's earliest novels were lived in English.English might have been established in Conrad's mind as the language of adult experience.These guesses make a lot of sense. A large volume of research indicates that multilingual people tend to link some aspects of life with one language and other aspects with another.Why Conrad became such a master of written English will always be a matter of debate.He himself wrote that the rhythms of the language matched some inner sense that had been with him since birth.As he once wrote, "If I had not written in English, I would not have written at all,"He never wrote professionally in either of the languages that preceded English in his life, Polish and French.