I am curious and wondering what language you do your thinking in. I am most interested if you speak your second language just as much if not more than your first.
2007-12-28 08:17:17 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Never thought of this before, i think in both, when i'm angry or stressed i think in my mother tongue more, otherwise its english. It depends what language you are speaking in that moment in time.
2007-12-28 08:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I speak both English and French fluently. I find that the language I think in(and even dream in) changes with where I am living. Whenever I have lived in a French environment, after a while my thinking switches over to French. The same thing happens when I return to an English speaking area. It usually takes a few weeks but it inevitably does happen.
2007-12-28 08:21:35 · answer #2 · answered by North 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my first language was Spanish and at 9 yrs I stared English so I cant really tell if I'm thinking in the1st or 2ND or both. But both of them are good and sometimes talking to my non English speaking friends I say a few words in English then I think for a moment and go back and say it again in Spanish. and somethimes the other way around it can get a bit complicated.Unless I just use 1 language.
2007-12-28 08:25:27 · answer #3 · answered by nana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I speak 4 languages, but think only in 2.
I alternate my thinking according to what I am thinking of, or what I've been reading lately. There are certain topics that "invite" a language, and some the other.
2007-12-28 08:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-12-28 08:19:59 · answer #5 · answered by AAA 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I get this question often. I am a native speaker for one language and started using English in my early teens. I'm well into adulthood now.
My answer is NEITHER. Most of my thoughts are abstract and language independent. I think in symbols and images, and not in words. Only if I need to express my thoughts, languages comes in.
There are few exceptions. Things I ONLY learned in one language, if I have to think it aloud, it will be in the language I learned the subject. For example, multiplication table... If I can not do it visually, it comes out in one language. Another is calculus... that comes out in English. I have no idea how to do it in my original language.
But, most of other things are not thought in any particular language.
2007-12-28 08:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you think in the language your about to speak, or speak the most. A better question would be what language do you dream in
2007-12-28 08:20:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I will think in english, but have the words in spanish pop up too. So it'll happen, sometimes anyway, that I'll mix spanish words in with my english spoken sentence. I generally speak english more, because it's the language my family and friends speak.
2007-12-28 08:21:33 · answer #8 · answered by lynnyloo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I speak 2 languages. English is my second launguage and I do think in English. I also dream in English.
2007-12-28 08:22:54 · answer #9 · answered by miye p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I speak two languages fluently, gujarati and english, but I mostly think in English, probably because I speak it more often and live in the U.S.
2007-12-28 08:20:23 · answer #10 · answered by Manan T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is widely beleived that, in order to be fluent in a language, you must think in it.
I speak fluently in three languages, and I think in whichever one I am using, or have used last. Occasionally, I mix them up, when a concept doesn't translate well.
2007-12-28 08:21:30 · answer #11 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋