If a person is multi lingual, what language do they think in?

Answer 1

Typically, their native or first language, or the language they are currently speaking the majority of the time.

Answer 2

Their native tongue.Think of it this way, each learned language including dialects are stored in a separate small section of the brain, with interconnecting processors that translate and interact upon stimuli or input. However, if that person remains distant from their native language and has a steady input of another language, then they in time will think primarily with the newer language.For example, a southern person relocates to the north for 20 years, they may loose the southern dialect, it works like that.

Answer 3

I have many bilingual friends who speak both english and spanish fluently. I have been told by most of them that they interchange the language they think in.. primarily by who they are around, spanish speakers or english speakers and by what language they are speaking at that time obviously

. A few of them think in spanish only, and vice versa, but it these cases that I can think of the person spoke the preferred language much more often than the other one.

I have never asked what language they think in if they are just all alone with nobody around. I would assume the language they use most often to speak with.

Answer 4

I don't believe you think in a language. It would be like thinking in code- and thoughts are like feelings where we can give names to them and we understand what those names mean because we've been taught them, but they're just words, letters: symbols. Such a thing as thinking is impulsive-although I have a friend who is Greek and English is her first language, and she says she dreams in English all the time, but a couple of times she remembers dreaming in Greek!

Answer 5

I speak a "smattering of languages" (English primary; plus Gaelic, Spanish,French, German, Latin, Tagalog, Urdu. Chinese).

At first I was going to answer that I think in English...but by the time I got to the answers page itsef I realized that some of what I think in is more an "ideaograph" than a word per se.

The word 'Teacher' in Urdu is "Ustad"..... but thinking about that word actually brought memories of "Mr. Gil" in the Himalayas teaching me new words and phrases and not the English word 'teacher'.

Answer 6

For me, it depends on who I'm with. If I'm with my family or my neighbors in Miami, I usually think in Spanish because that's the language that most people are speaking.

With most other people I know, I think in English because that's what everyone's usually speaking.

I live in Japan now, and if I'm with an all-Japanese group (at a party or something) I try to think in Japanese as much as possible, although it's not easy.
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Answer 7

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Answer 8

Depends upon their primary language, I can speak 6 languages, and I'm learning a 7th, but my first language is still English.

Answer 9

I speak three languages, two fluently, one not-so-fluently.

I don't think in any particular language. I don't think people "think" in languages, but rather images or ideas that can't be depicted by language alone.

Answer 10

they think in the first language they were taught or in the language they speak the most