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Primarily in English, since that's my primary language.
I'm a second language learner though, not truly bilingual. While I was studying my second language and living abroad though, I often thought it in and sometimes dreamt in it. I still occassionally think it in, but not often, because I don't use it now that I live back in the States.
It depends on what language I speak during the day. I usually think in English, but when I go back to Germany to visit, I find myself thinking in German again.
My fiance mostly thinks in english but sometimes he'll find himself dreaming in spanish or counting in spanish. I would probably say he thinks about 50% of the time in each language. Spanish was his first language but he learned english around the age of 5.
i learned english and slovenian at the same time, but i mostly think to myself in english. but, there are times when i can't think of an appropriate english word...so i just say the slovenian word! kinda weird, i guess!
I think in english. I'm vietnamese but I'm not fluent. I can understand it but I can't speak it very well.
It depends on the situation. When I am by myself and think about my family and friends, then I mostly think in Russian. If I am with my FI or at work then I mostly think in English. Also, even if I am by myself and think about FI, then I still do it in English because that is the language we communicate with.
It's so interesting to hear the answers. I wish I knew another language to have the option of what language to think in hehe
I'm not bilingual but I remember that we asked this same question to our tour guide when we went on a european spring break in high school. She was italian but she lived in france and worked for an american tour company-- so she spoke those three languages completely fluently and also could speak german she said. She said that she primarily thought in Italian because that is what she was raised with, but sometimes her dreams were in French or English.
Je parlez Francais et Anglais. Mon amour est un Francophone du Québec
I've fallen off with my Spanish, but when I'd been studying it through high school and some college I actually would have dreams in Spanish! :-) I should really get back on that, it's a good skill to have.
I grew up in Turkey and moved the US when I was 21 so English is my second language. Maybe because I learned it at a young age in school, but it always came very naturally to me. I think and dream in English for the most part and talk to myself in English. Only when I dream of my family or friends back home, then we speak in Turkish in the dream as we normally would.
It depends. I think you react to your environment so most days I think in English but when I'm home I tend to think in Chinese.
I almost always count in Chinese though!
Born and raised in Portugal, fluent in Portuguese. I think in the language that I'm speaking at the moment, if that makes sense. When I speak with my parents in Portuguese, I'm thinking in Portuguese. When I speak with FI in English, I'm thinking in English. FI does say that I dream in Portuguese sometimes.
@Gerbera: Now that you mentioned that, I count in Turkish too, I don't know why. That's pretty much the only time I revert back to the mother tongue.
It depends on environment for me, too. When I lived in Japan and was surrounded by Japanese all day, I thought in Japanese. Now that I've readjusted to living in the States, I mostly think in English. I sometimes dream in Japanese, though.
Somewhat related: I'm an actress, and a while ago, I did a year-and-a-half-long stint playing a Russian character. During that time, I found myself thinking in English with a Russian accent.
I took an intensive college French class over the summer one year. It went from 7am to 1pm everyday for six weeks and was basically French I & II (yeah how bad did my summer suck) . I started writing out all my roomates phone messages in French with out even thinking about it. Sometimes on the phone i'd start speaking French and I dreamed in French.
My husband's first language was French and he still uses it a lot but the only time now he says he really thinks in it is when we go visit his family. I understand French fairly well but don't have confidance speaking so he usually talks to me in english. However when he's around his family he'll sometimes forget what language and just start spouting off in French to me because he thinks in whatever language he's primarily speaking. Even though I won't usually speak it after I've heard it for awhile I'll even have a few thoughts in French, though probably very grammatically poor thoughts. My husbands dreams are almost always in English though, once in awhile when we've gone to Europe he'll wake up excited because his dream was in French but that's usually after a couple weeks.
Russian was my first language but now I'm much more fluent in English. I usually think and dream in English. But when I'm talking in Ruassian then I'll find myself thinking in Russian as well. Then there are certain phrases and words in Russian that don't have an English translation and they creep into my English thoughts as well (like in the middle of a sentence).
@GreenEyedMoon: This is so funny... thinking with Russian accent :) I've never heard this before!
I am a french immersion teacher and speak primarily in french throughout the day...but I still think in English. There are times though, where I'm speaking out loud to friends in english and can't think of a word in English so a whole sentence or expression will come out in french, and they think it's hilarious. My FI catches me doing it every so often and he'll say.. " repeat what you just said"? haha...
One of my really good friends is Spanish and she learned English when she was 5. Even though she speaks really fluent and good English, sometimes when shes telling a story or talking *without* thinking she starts slowing adding in some Spanish words and then before you know it, shes speaking to you in full on Spanish and you have to remind her to switch back to English.
I think that means she might actually just think in Spanish. Hmmm Interesting post!
A friend of mine speaks Cantonese and flawless English, and she says she never thinks in English. Especially for numbers, such as prices and telephone numbers. I thought that was so interesting!
When I was taking regular French classes I would think in English but sometimes substitute random English words for French ones, like chair or boat haha.
I think this is such an interesting question! Once I asked my French teacher how she thought because she was raised speaking both English and French fluently. She said she switched back and forth depending on the type of thinking she was doing. Deep thinking = French, random everyday thoughts = English (:
I learned English and Spanish at the same time, but as I grew up (in the States) English became my dominant language and I don't remember ever thinking in any other language. When I was young though and both languages were more equal I would dream in Spanish sometimes.
Since where I am is a 100% bilingual city that is common place. We call that Franglais around here :)
I think in English, because that's my 1st language, but if I've been speaking French consistently for an hour or two I start thinking in French.
I'm such a stupid dum dum head.
I just read the title of this thread correctly.
I think in English. Write and speak in English punctuated with French.
(IE: Can you send me that email? Merci Mademoiselle)
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Totally random, weird question - I woke up this morning and for some reason, one of my first thoughts was "I wonder what language multi-lingual people think in?'' Like say you speak Spanish, French and English - are your thoughts in Spanish? English? French? Or a mixture!? I only speak English, so I just thought it would be interesting to hear what others say!