Multilingual people what language do you think in?

Cyan · Apr 5, 2020

are you most thinking in your mother tongue language?
or english even if not mother tongue?
I personally think most in french, because I'm french and still live in France. I never lived or interacted with people in other languages.

Maybe giving that info could help understand why you think in the language not matching your forum's flag?

onibaku, why thinking in english and spanish, if you are swedish?

Nobody_Important4u · Apr 5, 2020

I am from Poland so i use Polish, i heard that it's a hard languege for other country's but i like english more because there some words that don't have anything similiar, also in Polish there's a lot of cursing like i never thought of it but apparently in french (i am not sure if it was french) the worst thing you can say is something like an old cow and from what i heard others langueges are not that much worse also it's useless to talk with people in my country anyway because they are really rude.

onibaku · Apr 5, 2020

Cyan said:
are you most thinking in your mother tongue language?
or english even if not mother tongue?
I personally think most in french, because I'm french and still live in France. I never lived or interacted with people in other languages.

Maybe giving that info could help understand why you think in the language not matching your forum's flag?

onibaku, why thinking in english and spanish, if you are swedish?

Well I live in Sweden but I'm actually Finnish/Lebanese and since I've attended international schools and an English speaking degree programme, I feel most comfortable with English. But yeah I've managed to learn a few languages throughout my life.

(I also did live in Spain for some time and I feel that some words (and emotions) are best expressed in Spanish

)

bell1-1010 · Apr 5, 2020

Flame said:
for me i think in English. but when im angry i think in Turkish.

what language do you think in and why?

this isnt a wish thread. if you know the language for real.

italian ad english... when im mad i curse in own southern italian dialect...

Lucifer666 · Apr 5, 2020

It kind of depends on which native language I'm speaking. I am fluent in both English and Arabic and if I'm speaking to someone in Arabic then I'll tend to 'think in it' too. With French and Spanish I guess I think in English and then translate it when I'm trying to articulate myself. On my own I definitely default to English.

Hanafuda · Apr 5, 2020

I'm gonna have to ask my daughter about this. I speak English as native, Japanese as a functional illiterate. My wife speaks Japanese as native, English as full literate (she's a public school kindergarten teacher here in the U.S.), and other languages including Italian, Spanish at a decent functional tourist level. Our daughter has been raised in a mixed Japanese & English home since birth. She's now 16yo. She can speak Japanese and does speak Japanese, everyday. She can carry on a conversation with her grandparents in Japan, watch Japanese TV programs, and she has attended Japanese public school as a guest student. But she's a sophomore in an American H.S. making almost all A's. Where language/inner monologue is concerned, I do wonder what goes on in her head.

DinohScene · Apr 5, 2020

English.
Strangely enough...

AmandaRose · Apr 5, 2020

Totally depends on the situation and who I am with or where I am. So could be Gealic or English or a mixture of both.

If I'm by myself I tend to think mostly in Gaelic.

If I am with my friends I tend to think in English.

If I am with my family its a mixture of both.

SG854 · Apr 5, 2020

I think in German

The Catboy · Apr 6, 2020

I speak English, German, French, and I am studying Japanese (can speak some Japanese.) I think mostly in English and German because I was intending to use the German to have private conversations with an ex but we never really spoke much German together as smartphones started being a major thing and we just brought our private chats to messager apps. I also have some Japanese thrown in there when I am trying to remember things I am studying and want to use them in conversations with my girlfriend. Now I just think in a weird jumble of languages as I tend to think the same way I talk, which is a jumble of languages.

delilah23 · Apr 7, 2020

Billingual with basics of Russian, so when I speak, I tend to use even Russian words at random. But I would say I think in English more than my mother tongue

MrLucariox · Apr 7, 2020

I think in both Turkish and English but usually in Turkish since its my native language.

Flame said:
that is why i said i think in English most of the time. but when I am angry, is nice being able to think in Turkish. lets your angry out.

Turkish has a wide range of swear words. English its like the same few.

Can agree on that. Turkish allows you to literally stack swear words on top and create a monster.

x65943 · Apr 8, 2020

AmandaRose said:
Totally depends on the situation and who I am with or where I am. So could be Gealic or English or a mixture of both.

If I'm by myself I tend to think mostly in Gaelic.

If I am with my friends I tend to think in English.

If I am with my family its a mixture of both.

Wow, how common is it to speak Scottish Gaelic anymore?

zxr750j · Apr 8, 2020

Dutch is my language, but we occasionally speak English at home. My son works at a bank where English is the norm.
Mostly my Dutch is without an accent: except when I go to a football match or when cursing, then Dutch people can definitely hear where I come from... Utrecht!

MockyLock · Apr 8, 2020

As a french, i think in french in my daily life.
But like Cyan, when i know i'll use english like in this forum, or IRC, my mind naturally switch to english.

AmandaRose · Apr 8, 2020

x65943 said:
Wow, how common is it to speak Scottish Gaelic anymore?

Not very common unless you are from the Outer Hebrides where I grew up.

In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old) reported as able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there are revival efforts, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and 2011 censuses. Outside Scotland, a dialect known as Canadian Gaelic has been spoken in eastern Canada since the 18th century. In the 2016 national census, nearly 4,000 Canadian residents claimed knowledge of Scottish Gaelic.

In the next Scottish census in 2021 its estimated the figure will rise to above 2% the highest its been in decades. We a few years ago had no Gaelic TV channels here and only had 1 Gaelic Radio station. We now have 2 fully Gaelic TV channels and 3 Radio stations.

Cyan · Apr 8, 2020

Sorry to hijack the "thinking" subject.
speaking of less used languages, in France we have regional languages too !
not counting City languages, which we do have too. My city has its own language. I never learned it, but my sister did. it was still talked by old people 50 years ago, but I guess it's a remnant of old history, our town is 700 year old. it's starting to being lost and very few people are learning it, even less practicing it.

Depending on the region, some of these languages are still strongly used.
We have specific words which stays, and some of these words are so common for us that we don't know they are unknown to others.

General regional language map

dAVID_ · Apr 14, 2020

I think in a mixture of Spanish and English.

xskibbles · Apr 14, 2020

It really depends on the scenario. I would have to say mostly in English though( occasional Spanish). I will say I hate subtitled spanish just due to my head working in a way were it translates it to english instead of ,you know, just understanding it in spanish

RacsoSakuraba · Apr 14, 2020

Well, I am from Latin America so my mother tongue is Spanish, as I do not have complete confidence (and I forget some rules) I sometimes use the translator to write in English but I read and listen to you modestly well.

On the other hand, I have hatred too well used to Japanese so sometimes I usually translate whole (short) sentences out of habit but up to there, the grammar is still scary to get into with the kanji XDDD

In short: 80% Spanish, 15% English, 5% Japanese

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