If your Bilingual what language do you think in?

Answer 1

I think it depends on the manner you learned the second language, and where the moment lies. So say you speak english but you learned french or spanish. If you learned spanish by going to Spain or Mexico and you associated each object and word with the object directly rather than using your first language as a medium then you'd probably think in both languages depending on which the moment called for. I know certain people who mixed up their approach to language learning in this manner and think and speak english but know their first language and do things like count and do mathematics in their mother tongue. I think in both. You can tell the difference for yourself with how easy you translate between the two languages. If you really have to think about the words to translate your second language back into your mother tongue correctly, then you probably think in two languages, otherwise you probably associated one to the other and while that can have more corruptabilities when it comes to learning the second language, once you get it down it'll be the same and you'll just be easier at translating moreso than someone who hasn't associated or practiced translating.

Answer 2

English!

Answer 3

There are degrees of bilingual. I can think/dream in several languages, for example.

Answer 4

You think in the language that you became fluent in first. If you learned two languages at the same time, you go back and forth, and may tend to think in one language for certain things and one for others.

Answer 5

To be honest, I am tri-lingual. I feel most comfortable in English because it's the language I used in school. Thus, that is the reason I think in English.

Answer 6

I think in my native (recently I am trying to think in other ones, but i am not used)
sometimes these languages change my native language...

my sister is super fluent in German (she passed exam as the best (or maybe not... I don't remember) even though it was on level for higher year of studies)

and she said once she was thinking and she did not notice....
now she is working abroad..but i don't know if she thinks...
i suppose tht yes.. because she is surrounded by this language and has to understand and speak it...

Answer 7

I am welsh and it's my first language but i can speak english quite good to. I generally fink i'n welsh and when spaking english it get's annnoying because i sa welsh word's and people must fink i'm stupid or domething but i aint it's just what language come first to me

Answer 8

I think in both language depending on where I am. if i'm in mexico with spanish speakers all around I think and dream in Spanish.

in the US I think in english.

Answer 9

Language is not what you think in, but rather the culture you were born into and you love the most.

Answer 10

Martian