Bi/multilingual Southperrians.

Think in English. Knows Chinese but suck at it.

Think in English, and I always ask my friends this.Most of them say they think in chinese sometimes and english some times.
Learning Chinese and Japanese at school, and absorbing Korean from maple.

[COLOR="Magenta"]I think in Spanish most of the time. And its funny when I'm talking cause I mix up my words so bad or I don't know a certain word in English so i'm like fuuu how do you say thisss~~
Though I do mix in some Japanese spacers too. Anime is a virus.[/COLOR]

I think most of the time in french, sometimes in english. I speak canadian french perfectly and english almost perfectly.

I almost always speak and process in English. However, I am fluent in Greek (I'm not Greek myself. My best friend is and I've spent many months in Greece with him), so while I'm in Greece I typically always think and speak in Greek.

You guys are misunderstanding my question. If your first language is English, or you were born in a primarily English speaking country, you're not who I'm asking. I'm wondering about immigrants.

I think in English, sometimes Vietnamese (but not very often).

Oh, I was raised on Vietnamese, by the way. Didn't learn English until I was 5 or 6.

I speak English and Czech well (English being the 2nd language).

I only use Czech to mentally spell out words for some odd reason.

I"m fluent in both Italian and English. At the moment I'm thinking in English and for the past few months I have been. If I start using the Italian alot though then my brain switches over and it's usually either thinking all in Italian or hybrid. It's an awkward place to be thinking in a language you occasionally don't know specific word in.

Apparently back when we lived in Italy I would carry on a bilingual sleep-talk conversion with myself, asking in English or Italian and responding in the other. So says my mom, anyways.

well after you've become accustomed to english, how can you not think in it? i think in english when im dealing with english, but when im dealing with chinese, i think in chinese.

Born outside of canada, lived here, and been citizen of for roughly 14 years. Speak two languages from my country, and english fluently.


I think in english. Even when I flew back for the first time in my life ever since moving here, I thought in english. lol ..I think Fiel once asked this quite awhile ago..

I am immigrant from country of the Mexico.

I honestly have no idea. Right now that I'm typing this, I'm thinking in English, as well as when I was reading these posts. Lemme go read a forum in Spanish to see what language I think in.

Ok, I was thinking in Spanish and making comments in my head in Spanish. So, I guess that if I'm reading/writing/talking in a Spanish, I'll think in Spanish and vice-versa for English.

Also, I always read Fiel's name in Spanish. Fee-ehl.

Also, I always read Fiel's name in Spanish. Fee-ehl.

... wait, that's not how it's pronounced? I always pronounced it like this too, but that may also be due to my Spanish-speakingness. Is it actually pronounced differently? ._.

You guys are misunderstanding my question. If your first language is English, or you were born in a primarily English speaking country, you're not who I'm asking. I'm wondering about immigrants.

Living in singapore, i knew very little english until i was 4 or 5.

Born in China, came to US when I was 5. I speak Chinese at home, english everywhere else unless the other people know chinese too. I'm much much more fluent in english though.

You guys are misunderstanding my question. If your first language is English, or you were born in a primarily English speaking country, you're not who I'm asking. I'm wondering about immigrants.

Native Vietnamese reporting.

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?

I tend to talk to myself (yes I know I'm weird) inside my head, and I have been using English during those periods since around grade 8, when I had barely enough mastery in English to do so. Before that point, I used Vietnamese, of course.
I started English at grade 6, by the way.

That's the closest I can think of as "thinking in English" for now.

You guys are misunderstanding my question. If your first language is English, or you were born in a primarily English speaking country, you're not who I'm asking. I'm wondering about immigrants.

I don't know if I count because I was raised in a Dutch school system, my family is Hispanic and most don't know English (mother included) and I was raised in a Spanish/Creole immigrant neighbourhood but the side of the country I come from mainly speaks English, Dutch being basically a secondary language. >_> According to my mom, I self-taught myself how to speak English whenever I wasn't in school. Probably what happens when I basically stayed indoors every day. o_e

Born in Canada but grew up learning Cantonese, now I can only listen to Cantonese and badly speak/write/understand French. Everything else is English.

Born in Brazil, because of that, Portuguese is my main language, although i use way more english than portuguese, since i don't talk too much in RL with vacations other than with my brothers. Since i spend most of my woke up hours in comp, i spend most of my day talking in english.

Started learning english since... since i remember using computer, which was like 8 years ago until now. Spanish has been taught in classes since 5th grade or so. Although you can choose to learn english or spanish in some schools, i prefered to do both of those.
Tried learning some japanese for the past 3 years, but only learned to understand and mind-translate things for survivability in a japanese version such as quests, skills and such. Haven't learned anything of communication other than the default expressions. I don't consider i've learned japanese. Since i can only translate it to english, and not so many things other than english pronnounciation.

I have the same thing Loose described. Thinking in english when speaking and chatting in it. And the same with Spanish and Portuguese :C

Born in Canada, raised with french. I eventually absorbed the english language in a short period of time after the age of seven, I believe. I mostly speak english; though I use french on some occasions (mainly school). So switching to an english school would really mess up my grades or comprehension, hah. On a side note, using english so often gave me a weird accent in french. Very unfunny.

Anyway, I know a few words here and there in spanish (likely because it is similar to french), which I hope to fully learn the language one day, as well as Japanese. I've never really been interested in any other languages.

Well. I mostly think in english. Yeah, heh. Rarely in french.