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?

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I do not live in a English speaking country. And my mother tongue is not english.

    I still sometimes think in English. As I use it a lot.

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      3 days ago

      Same here. I also found myself trying to express things in my language using English constructs or colloquialisms that don’t have a direct translation. And my English isn’t even that great, but I have to use it daily for work.