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Post: How do muli-linguists and animals think?
Forum: Something For All
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Posted by: Divica
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I'm not implying that the two are the same, lol.

I have two branches of a similar question;

How do multi-linguists think? My native language is English and so my thoughts are articulated in English. The only real experience I have is studying German in school. I can't recall ever thinking something in German, but I'm not very skilled in the language.

So to any multi-linguists out there, do you think entirely in your native language, or sometimes English, or mostly English? Does it change? For example, if you're from France, and speak French, and you think in French, if you moved to the UK and spoke English 99% of the time would you start thinking in English, or still French. And then if you moved back to France would you change back to thinking in French. I'm really interested to find out




On to my second branch of this thought. How to animals think? Obviously we think in our language of choice, but animals have either no language or a very limited vocabulary. It doesnt seem plausible to assume they think in the native human language, but I dont really understand how you can think without using words in your mind, I guess thats because thats what we do. I guess a lot of animal behaviour is instinctive, and doesnt require too much thought, but yeah, just weird. I suppose this would also apply to babies

What are your thoughts

 

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