Bilingual People - What Language Do You Think In?

Hi folks! If you are multilingual (preferably fluent in each language), what language do you think in? What language do you find yourself dreaming in? What language are your deepest thoughts felt in?

Make a reply video and let me and viewers know. The subject fascinates me in the same way the musical language fascinates me, and once people start thinking about it I'm sure they too will wonder what language you think in.

So what I'm looking for is:
Which languages you speak
Why you speak them (or how you came to)
What language do you think or dream in?
Why do you think that is so?

You can answer any or all of these questions.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• language
• multiligual
• bilingual
• vocabulary
• dreams
• philosophy
• mind
• thought
• sublime
• subconscious
• conscious

[sternumagnum]

But why would you dream in a different language just because you're bisexual?..

[BelgianSigma]

Actually it's kinda of hard to say right now I am living in the US so I think mostly in English but when I am in Belgium I speak French and think in French because everyone else around me do so it depends on the environment and about my dreams that's something that I don't control so it's just a mix of both English and French that only I can understand (I also speak a little bit of Dutch) =D

[awsomguy09]

haha im 13 years old and i live in finland, and i ALWAYS think in english

[thisistoocharming]

I speak English and Mandarin fluently, without any non-native accents.

Mostly I speak to myself(or to my pets) in English, and sometimes in Mandarin. It depends on nothing.

I guess that I think in English since I have been told that lots of Mandarin sentences that are originally from me look English. Syntactic structures, I mean. Syntax is not grammar.

And I dream in Mandarin because my major at college is Chinese Linguistics. :)

[Trinivalts]

Monolingual i guess. Started learning eng shortly before school, even though sparsely. Was exposed to rus and ger on tv early on, just listening.

latvian: native,

english: knowledge - advanced (still forgets words quite often), speech - fluent (I don't feel any suspension if i have to talk as opposed to rus & ger)

german: knowledge - basic to intermediate, speech - currently deteriorated.

russian: knowledge - basic, speech - none to basic. (only one which i hadn't learnt in school at all)

[bfmv2216]

hey :) i lived in london for nearly 15 years and then moved to france, im 17 and a half now and i speak both english and french fluently but i think in english as its the language i grew up with and have talked more in my life. although i do dream in french and english, depending on the people in my dream. weird isnt it

[Kbabykgirlk]

My family has many languages, i think in English cause its what I speak for most of the time but I usually dream in what ever language I spoke or heard the last before I went to sleep. I used to think in Polish a lot when I was very little but not anymore,it was at the point of my childhood when I knew only 2 languages.

[treez878]

@euphonies thats very true. The only time I think in a language at all is when I'm thinking to myself, or thinking about what to say to someone else.

[Sadrianamusicfan]

my native lenguage is spanish but i speak english german and portuguese too i dream in english spanish dialogues

[TheAspiringLinguist5]

Hey!

My native language is English. However, I speak Spanish and Russian.

I always think in my native language of English. I hardly ever think in another language. If I do think in another language then it would only be a few things in Spanish. I NEVER think in Russian unless of course I'm speaking it because you must think of what words to say and such... I guess the reason for this is that a language like Russian is so far away from a language such as English.. idkk know.