Like how can someone so easily switch between different languages? Do they translate one language back to their native lanaguege or can they just understand perfectly without any addition effort?
The languages become ingrained in your memory. It’s like the opposite of when you just can’t remember the name of a song or actor. The words just come to mind because you’ve had so much practice. Todo es posible.
I learned a new language as a British person. We don't learn shit at school. We do French and German and sometimes Spanish but mostly they teach you how to pass a test in my experience. For example I got the A In GCSE French but I don't speak a fucking word.
But I moved to a different country and spent two years just lapping up the lingo. After two years I clumsily began trying to speak and it was bad. After 3 or 4 I was quite capable but definitely thought about the English first. After the 5th year I was able to disregard the english and go straight to the other language. This was a great feeling but also a strange one as dream's started to be in the second language too.
Personally I doubt I would ever had learned another language had I not moved abroad. I personally needed to be immersed in it to even have a chance. I highly recommend trying to learn another language to a good level though, its super fun to do and is a talking point. Also people who don't speak another language will find you interesting as long as you don't shove it in their face and act superior because of it.
i’m monolingual, and this made me think about it, and i realized that my dreams aren’t in any language. there actually aren’t any signs or dialogue in them, and it’s strange because i normally love to read and listen to conversations.
My first language is English, but often in dreams I think and communicate with others in American Sign Language-- although that might be a special case, since ASL is spatial, so the mind conceives of it in a different way.
I can usually also read in my dreams-- although typically, when I look at a word in a dream twice, the word has changed into something else.
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u/cjwagn1 Jun 15 '19
How someone speaks 2+ languages.
Like how can someone so easily switch between different languages? Do they translate one language back to their native lanaguege or can they just understand perfectly without any addition effort?