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Non-native people, what language do you think in? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by Yermaw@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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To people who were born speaking a language then moved to somewhere with a different language. Do you find your inner monologue speaking the new language or do you think natively and translate for speech?

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[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I dont think I have an inner monologue. I think in words only when imagining a conversation, or in this case, writing this comment. Otherwise I think in ...images maybe?

[–] rogue_optimism@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's wild! I can't imagine having thoughts without an inner monologue. I often wonder how animals think without language and it seems so limited and alien to me. It's just unimaginable.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Maybe language is what's limiting you.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm with @anguo, while if I have to express something I will have inner monolog, but day to day it is thought in concepts. I find it especially concept spacey when doing engineering work, it will be 3D virtual world of structures and forces (for lack of a better term) along with thought process of the problems, but there is no language to it

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

No inner monologue or images here. I just feel it usually. Like the person you’re responding to I’ll sometimes say things in my head like when going over something I’m actually going to say; but it’d be inefficient to do that for everything. I can think much faster without words.

It’s more like ‘hm yeh …and then ’