So, if someone is for example turkish, lives in Turkey the first 15 yrs of his life than moves to England and lives there for 25 yrs, in what language will he think? His thoughts will be in english or in turkish?
2006-11-23 19:47:16 · 8 answers · asked by Puiu 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Depends on how well the learn they language or their new residence. I lived as an ex-pat for 5 years and after becoming fluent in the local language found myself thinking and even dreaming in my new tongue.
There is a point in learning a new language where keeping a running translation in ones head is just too slow. I would shift between thinking in one or the other language as the situation merited. Usually without conscious choice, it was easier to think in the language I was using at the time.
2006-11-24 04:40:36 · answer #1 · answered by J D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Turkish
2006-11-23 19:59:51 · answer #2 · answered by rams 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it depends on how much the person from Turkey decides to assimilate in England. He/she could live in England for 25 years and barely speak, let alone think in, English!!
2006-11-23 19:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by kaus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm.If he/she was a teenage whem migrated and not living in a Turkish enviroment then probably english. Otherwise Turkish
2006-11-23 23:18:55 · answer #4 · answered by M I 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Surely It will be in turkish .
2006-11-23 19:51:54 · answer #5 · answered by r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Experts think in Expert's Language, may be thier mother language
2006-11-23 20:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you do not choose a language to think of, yet usually the belief is observed with the aid of a variety of of of the languages you talk - with a pause as quickly as we predict of something which could not be pronounced in them.
2016-10-13 00:33:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SPANISH
2006-11-23 19:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋