Archived People who speak more than one language, what is the language you use for your internal thoughts? (AskVoat)
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Archived People who speak more than one language, what is the language you use for your internal thoughts? (AskVoat)
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I think in the language that I'm currently using. If I'm talking to people in German, then my thoughts are German. If I talk to Americans, my thoughts are in English. My thoughts also change to whichever language that I'm currently reading, so for example on voat, my thoughts are in English and if I read a German news site they switch to German.
I still remember when I learned my third language, French, in the beginning it felt like I was thinking like a translator; thinking in English or German and then translating words to French, but once I started getting better at the language, I actually started thinking in French.