What languages do you speak? read? write?

[Big Poppa Smurf]

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I don't have a second language. However, I have always wondered about the thought process of people who are fluent in more than one language. Specifically, when you speak a foreign language do you think in your own language and then translate or do you think and speak in that language?


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People have asked me that question many times, and in the beginning, I would say the first 4 years of learning English in America, I was still translating stuff into Chinese in my mind process during a conversation. As time progresses the process becomes faster and eventually it reaches a point where I can process in both languages, where my Chinese level fell to meet the rising level of English.

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There was a period of time where I started having dreams in spanish, which was both really cool and really weird. I also somehow managed to speak english in epic hexameter once but I think that was just a fluke.