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what language do you think in?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by dangokura, Jan 19, 2018.

  1. dangokura

    dangokura what is happening ;w;

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    title! i’m curious :P
    i think in english, chinese, and japanese! it’s probably an equal amount of each :3
    what about you guys???
     
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    Since my primary language is English, my default 'thinking' language is English, though given the types of books I like to read the variant tends to be older than common American-English.
     
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    If I have to think with words I think in English, but otherwise I just use images, somehow
     
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  4. dangokura

    dangokura what is happening ;w;

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    that’s so cool tbh!!! i can’t think in images, it’s always words for me :P
     
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    I only speak English, so it makes sense that I think in it. I think it would be amazing to be able to think in more than one language :o
     
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    I only speak and think in english ;_;
     
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    I think in Dutch, English and in Pictures!
     
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    I guess if we’re counting pictures as a language now, I do that too xD
    But anyway, because I interact in English so much on a daily basis, I now think mostly in English rather than Dutch, which is my first language. It’s like 60-40 but yeah, mostly English xD
     
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  9. Dawn

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    Klingon. Occasionally. Usually when I'm half-asleep.

    English otherwise. Even when I was studying French in school I thought in English...probably why I was never any good at French. xD
     
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  10. Gwoomy

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    Only French for most of my life, as it’s my native language, so I have a lot of vocabulary. But now that I speak better English, I started thinking in English.
     
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    I only speak English fluently, though I used to speak intermediate Spanish, French, and Latin; so English is my de facto language of thought. The thing is though, my thoughts are very verbal, I rarely think without mentally audible words. Which makes me wonder... does anyone here know (firsthand or otherwise) how Deaf self-perceive thoughts? It's so difficult for me to grasp since I'm so verbal.
     
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    I only speak English, so my thoughts are in English. u.u
     
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    I think in picture mostly but when I do think in words It's usually in english because I only know snippits of other languages.
     
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    I usually thing in English and Spanish.
     
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    I think in English, because its the only language I actually know. I've tried learning Spanish and Japanese in school, but I've never been able to pick up more than a few words of anything other than English.
     
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    You stated my thoughts so eloquently that I will not even bother to repeat them.

    On the whole image-thought thing, my mind operates very much like a computer or machine, so my thoughts will take the form of logical chains or connections, as I attempt to layer or construct everything together. Sometimes they will take the form of lists if it's a set of tasks I need to accomplish. Yes, they'll all be in English, but the shape of the thoughts varies vastly depending on circumstance.

    ...Speaking of which, that gives me an idea...
     
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    Sometimes I think in Filipino and sometimes I think in English. At rare times, I will think in Korean. It really depends on who I'm talking to, what I'm seeing at the moment, or what my mood is.
     
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    Dutch, a bit of German, and a whole lot of English.
     
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    English for me.
     
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    I only speak English, so I think in English. But I have caught myself using maybe a word or two of Spanish on occasion. It's usually tinged with sarcasm, though, because I've just had so many bad experiences learning Spanish that I can't get myself interested in the language anymore. At least I'm sort of learning it this year.

    (oh, and if Italian words that I learned from music count, sometimes I'll think about something slowing down as a ritardando. But it's only the one word.)
     
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