Bilingual People?

Question

I live in a city where there are many people who grew up speaking both spanish and english from their childhood and are fluent in both to the point where they could consider either english or spanish their first language. Are there any people here who are bilingual like this? It doesn't matter which languages, I would just like to know, if you are bilingual, which language do you think in?

Answer 1

I consider myself as "a multilingual person"...
I speak English, Italian, little bit of french and Korean. One day I want to speak German and Russian too.I learned all those languages in my adult life (I started to learn those languages when I was 24 years old, I'm early 30's now) So once in a while I'm confused...and accidentally say different languages or make small mistakes. One of my friends speaks 10 different languages. When she was young, she lived in lots of different countries...

Answer 2

I was born in Poland but moved to England when I was 1. Then, when I was 6, I moved back to Poland.
A the beginning I had several problems with speaking among Poles, since I felt no difference between English and Polish. However, after some time, I got used to it.
I was very young, but I remember that at the beginning I thought 'in English', later both 'English and Polish' (sometimes I only knew English names for some items). Now I think in Polish.
However, sometimes when I come to Great Britiain, after a while I start thinking using English. It's like waking up childhood memories ;)

Answer 3

I'm from the Philippines where there are quite a number of dialects. I speak Cebuano, Tagalog (Filipino) and English. Cebuano is my native tongue, and the words and sounds have a sort of Spanish influence. It's a beautiful language that I love. Depending on the situation, I can think in any of the three, but I think I write better in English

Answer 4

For me personally, any language thoughts are triggered by either visaul or audio stimulants. And the thoughts automatically switch to the input language, often without as much as a pause.
e.g. I'm multi-lingual between english and 3 chinese dialects. I can be sitting amongst a group of 4 with them all speaking differently and respond in kind without first having to think about which language to use.

Answer 5

Bilingual in Spanish and English, but 99% of the time, I think in English.
Curiously, though, when I extremely stressed or frustrated, I start to think in Spanish.

Answer 6

I am also bilingual. I can speak both Korean and English. It seems to me that the society encourages the people to master second-languate in order to compete with other companies' workers, and second-language can be the good method of business. Is it enough answer to you?

Answer 7

believe it or not I am trilingual and I only think in English, sometimes if I'm speaking a foreign language I have to switch my brain back to English, it's funny sometimes because other people would look at me puzzled and start telling me: "I don't understand Spanish, you're talking to me in Spanish!" not realizing that I'm speaking another language. Good question though, I dream in English too:)
But one thing I noticed, I count in Spanish, sing in French and call my kids with Italian phrases, pray in Hebrew...crazy don't you think?

Answer 8

I'm not that bilingual, but my husband and children are. (My husband's mother tongue is French but he went to school all in English. My kids have always spoken English with me and French with him.)

My husband will think in either English or French, depending who he's talking to or what he's thinking about. My kids seem to think in a combination of the two (and also German sometimes).

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I speak English and Chinese (Mandarin). However my Chinese isn't anywhere near as good as my English, although technically, it's my first language.

I think and speak mostly in English, and sometimes in Chinese. The only exception is that I always count and do maths in Mandarin, unless I'm counting aloud for someone else :)

Sometimes I think in German, just for fun :)