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i'm sure it wouldn't just depend on your company

2006-09-30 23:49:12 · 9 answers · asked by TCARANON 1 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

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I don't speak Italian, but I speak several languages. The language you think in can be influenced by the language you are currently speaking, the circumstances you are thinking about or even what language you have been reading or listening to. If you speak several languages fluently, you don't have time to translate. You automatically start thinking in that language.
Ever 10 years the Swiss send round census forms which you have to complete and return. About 16 years ago they changed the question 'What is your mother tongue?' to 'What language do you think in?' My husband (a stubborn Anglophone after 30 years in Switzerland) asked me what language I thought in, and I replied that it would depend on what language environment I was in at the time. 'Don't be bloody difficult,' he said, 'what language do you speak to yourself in?' My answer was the same. He then said, 'I'm glad I don't speak to myself in a foreign language, because I wouldn't understand what I was saying to myself.'

2006-10-01 00:16:19 · answer #1 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1 0

I speak two languages and I think in both of them. Some thoughts are almost impossible to express in one language but can be said easily in the other.

One simple example - in English we have just the word "rice," but in other languages there are many words for it to express finer shades of meaning.
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2006-10-01 06:55:30 · answer #2 · answered by Ever Learn 7 · 0 0

My Italian BF speaks both perfectly.He thinks in both languages .Which one depends on his train of thought.

2006-10-01 07:02:33 · answer #3 · answered by eva b 5 · 0 0

I speak English, Dutch and Flemish fluently. I live in an English speaking environment. I think English, i dream in English.
But i count in Flemish.

2006-10-01 07:26:03 · answer #4 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 0 0

The language of love and bad food.

2006-10-01 06:51:56 · answer #5 · answered by Kango Man 5 · 0 0

I'm sure it depends on your heritage and which language you first learned.

2006-10-01 06:52:13 · answer #6 · answered by Just Me 4 · 0 0

Esparanto?

2006-10-01 06:51:09 · answer #7 · answered by gerbiltamer 4 · 0 0

Venusian / Martin depending on what sex you are

2006-10-01 06:51:43 · answer #8 · answered by shagkitten21 3 · 1 0

Which ever you wish too

2006-10-01 06:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0 0

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