Dear Bilingual people

evvvissticante:

salty-light-bouquet:

lotrlocked:

kiokushitaka:

sirdigbey:

gabriellaxhemmings:

geooceanstorm:

What language do you think in?

I asked my mom because her first language is in Spanish and her answer was “I don’t even know. I don’t even know if I think”

I spoke to a neurologist about this, and he told me that bilingual people have a drastically different thought process than monolinguals. 

The way he explained it, monolinguals think in patterns that represent the words they’re thinking of, whereas bilinguals think in a completely different language (an internal ‘third’ language if you will) and then translate from that third language to either one of their native languages.

that makes sense. like… i think in concepts? then i have to decide what language to put it in, depending on the situation. that’s the only way i can think to describe it.

This is the coolest thing I have read in months. 

Uh…how does that apply to polylinguals?

Yeah, how this applies to a polyglot person? Like someone who knows at least 4 languages at all

@intelligentshipper i immediately thought of sonalii

man, this is interesting