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Halevi
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Topic: In which language are you thinking? Posted: 23-Feb-2006 at 03:23 |
I think either in English or symbolic giberrish, but often dream in
languages in which i have been immersed at various points in time...
mainly Hebrew, Cantonese and Farsi, although usually my dreams involve
me trying in vain to communicate with someone in one of those
languages! lol ... when living in Israel, i often thought and
dreamt in (elementary) Hebrew.
I've also developed the (somewhat irksome) habit of swearing under my
breath in other languages (i often use Arabic swear words, which i
picked up from living in Israel, and Russian, which i picked up from
local Russian friends, and Israel. They just sound especially dirty,
and stuck in my brain). I realize that may seem really lame, but im
thus far unwilling to bother altering this already-learned behaviour.
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arsenka
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Posted: 23-Feb-2006 at 05:08 |
We think in the language we try to express our ideas at the moment. That's much easier than translate it from your native language in your mind. That's most obvious when you have to translate from one non-native language to another non-native. You wouldn't copy with that if you had your own language as necessary point of transmission.
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Turkish Soul
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Posted: 25-Feb-2006 at 22:36 |
I learnt English,I will also learn German and Italan.I also know Turkish so in the future it will be a very hard question to answer..
I think in both Turkish and English when I am in this forum. If I lived abroad I would think both English and Turkish.But in my daily life I am thinking Turkish because I am in Turkiye
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cebeci
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Posted: 26-Feb-2006 at 05:36 |
and interesting topic which i very earlier then now realized
i think it has a parallel echo with the question: do everybody see 'the color red' exactly as you see?
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history is just a repetation of itself
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cebeci
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Posted: 26-Feb-2006 at 05:38 |
there may be 6 billion forms of red and everybody would call the color red
there might be a topic about this before, i donno
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history is just a repetation of itself
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cebeci
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Posted: 26-Feb-2006 at 05:39 |
i always think turkish and act like a turkish
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history is just a repetation of itself
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gcle2003
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Posted: 26-Feb-2006 at 05:54 |
Originally posted by Halevi
I've also developed the (somewhat irksome) habit of swearing under my breath in other languages (i often use Arabic swear words, which i picked up from living in Israel, and Russian, which i picked up from local Russian friends, and Israel. They just sound especially dirty, and stuck in my brain). I realize that may seem really lame, but im thus far unwilling to bother altering this already-learned behaviour. |
I learnt Russian in the Army (British) and as part of the course we had special lectures in learning how to swear. I don't know of any other formal course in a language that has included a similar speciality
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Cywr
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Posted: 26-Feb-2006 at 19:26 |
Generaly in English, though sometimes its clouded by Dutchisms, just
individual words usualy, though it is interesting that i sometimes
instinctivly associate certain things with the Dutch word over the
English one mentaly.
Also for no reason, i sometimes catch myself counting in Dutch.
Of interest though, is whenever i encounter a new word, i instinctivly
try to pronounce as if it were a Dutch word, like by brain just got
stuck in that habit as a teenager, makes for good fun, especialy with
the bizare spelling of some English words.
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Kilikya
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Posted: 27-Feb-2006 at 09:33 |
I like what Arsenka wrote:
We think in the language we try to express our ideas at the moment. That's much easier than translate it from your native language in your mind. That's most obvious when you have to translate from one non-native language to another non-native. You wouldn't copy with that if you had your own language as necessary point of transmission.
But I also agree with Serge about thought process in mages and feelings. I think the question we are answering here is what language do we talk to ourselves in? not what language do we think in.
There are some thoughts that I can only think in Turkish even though my Turkish is far from adequate. Situations trigger memories in a specific language and therefore we 'think' in that language.
When I am in the mountains I think in Italian. When I am at school ort thinking politics I think English. And the same goes for dreams-- I used to dream in Portuguese when I lived in Brazil tho now I cannot string together a coherent portuguese sentence.
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