Non-native people, what language do you think in? (lemm.ee)

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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?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm with @anguo, while if I have to express something I will have inner monolog, but day to day it is thought in concepts. I find it especially concepy space when doing engineering work, it will be 3D virtual world of structures and forces (for lack of a better term) along with thought process of the problems, but there is no language to it

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