Bi/multilingual Southperrians.

I've always wondered, what language do you think in? All four managers at the place I work are foreign, and speak English in addition to another language. They came from overseas, but have been living here for ages. After using English so much, do you eventually stop thinking in your native language?

First thought:
This thread... for multilingual SPers... and for Bi SPers... what does being bi have to do with being multilingual

On topic:
I think in either language (spanish/english) depending on whether people around me are talking spanish or english. If someone switches from spanish to english... more often than not, my thoughts (mid-..."sentence") will change from spanish to english. Happens rarely backwards though. If i start thinking in english it'll probably stay that way.

Didn't we have a similar thread before?

Oh well anyways. I think In english most of the time, probably because I spend way too much time talking and writing in english >_< (but I still eventually think in spanish)

It depends, I speak two languages (English and Bengali) and I sort of know French, and I'm usually switching between the first two randomly, and then French randomly pops into my head once in a while.

English/Spanish here. I can read Spanish up to the 10th - 12th grade level no problemo, but I can't speak it worth a damn. I always think in English.

English and malay. i think in singlish though.

 What i would think when i have to submit an assignment i didnt complete

fck, cibai la, diie diedie, mati mati.. nnti si [teachers name] tu confirm marah ( (fck,platypus la, die diedie, die die.. [teachers name] will surely nag at me (( )

 When a chick walks pass

wooh, hot pe! (wooh, hot or what!)

i speak english primarily. But then i also know bits and pieces of canto/mando/spanish (from HS). the only thing i really do is take little colloquial word combos from canto every now and then. Like when someone does something stupid it's like and "aye-ya" moment.

Well, when I type (I rarely speak, but also when I do), the idea structures itself in English syntax. So I assume that's what you mean by "thinking in English".

I also find my mother tongue language to be more... emotional. Like I feel embarrassed to use it or something of the kind. I talk to my cousin (he's the closest dude to me in the world) in Vietnamese, but if I see him online, we chat in English, so I think it's the same feeling for him. Dunno why.

And despite 20 years of speaking Vietnamese, it took me 10 minutes to find an equivalent word for "heroic".

I think in both English and spanish, and that's pretty much all the time.
Even when I'm at school, doing spanish things I think in english a lot...
Whenever I'm on the computer my mind is 90% english 10% spanish, because most things are in english.
Sometimes I forget words in spanish and can only think about the words in english... (of course temporal, not forgetting the language I speak everyday)
... It's really weird 'cause I started learning english when I was 5 or 6 till 8, then stopped for 3 years (stopped the intensive english) and went back to it when I was 10-11, and I've had intensive english at school since then...

i speak spanish mainly at work. I've just started practicing it more since. Worst part is when people are talking to you in both languages at once and trying to understand both. I've had a few mishaps where i spoke the wrong language to someone and left everyone confused

French English Arabic English is wierd enough since my family didnt speak it (ccept my bro). Now i think in english talk and write in english.

During the time I spent in other countries I always thought in English even though I knew the main language that was spoke there. But of course since the max amount of time I spent in another country was 5 years it might not have been long enough to have started thinking in the main language of that country.

I speak Spanish to my family, Dutch to my elementary/high school teachers and friends in the Netherlands and English everywhere else. I also think in English.

Sadly, I've been in the US for so long now (2 years seems long to me), I lost a lot of my fluency in both Spanish and Dutch, especially Dutch, so I understand them better than I speak them. In the case of my family, though, they barely speak English so I have to and only speak Spanish around them.

I know Spanish, Dutch and English. I used to be able to speak Valenciano I've forgotten long since. I can still understand it though.

I think in English, I speak Dutch 99% of the time. On the internet it's mostly English, Dutch at some social network sites. Spanish & Dutch at Facebook.

Natively spanish, I still think in spanish, but when using english, I switch to english 100%.

I dunno, I guess I defend myself well on both.

I think in German as it's easier to do task for me. :r Odd huh?

I have the situation where I mostly type in English and speak German (English in School). Sense me and my family are all native's; we all communicate in German. Except for my mum hehe, though she's learning to listen in on me and my dads conversations and she learns our language that way and when we teach her words that are long for her I guess lol. EX:

 Spoiler

Me: SE-Bahnhof befindet sich auf der Straße Papa.
Dad: Ruhig. Ich bin nicht dumm in Ordnung. Ich weiß, wie man das verdammte Bahnhof zu erhalten.
(sorry If I rushed anything xD i'm drinking coffee at the moment.)
Mom: Hey, what does "verdammte" mean?
Me and Dad: uhh... Nothing.... Nothing at all.... Just ignore that just cancer thats all.
Mom: What?

Then again... School has gotten me rusty at German sentence structure.

I'm pretty sure ASL counts..
but how one would think in ASL is beyond me. But I think people who are born deaf do.

Anyway, my thought process is in English.

I tend to think in English 99% of the time when on the computer. IRL I tend to get confused a lot with spanish and english. It's like a constant problem. I also end up talking to my friends or parents with some english terms sometimes, specially some words that don't really have a use in other languages, but in english are so common because of the universality of the language.

Sometimes it happens when I go to another country that I switch 100% to that language. When I was in Brazil, for example, I would think and speak Portuguese fluently even if I didn't really know the language.

So, to sum up:

99% English on the internet,
90% Spanish in real life
100% when I'm in a foreign country.

I speak English and Spanish, but I always think in English.

I pretty much always think in English, but I can speak both English at Mandarin. Granted, my Mandarin totally sucks. Always has.

Currently attempting to teach myself Japanese. It's not working out well.