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?

  • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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 <unsymbolic thought>…and then <more unsymbolic thought>’