> Do anyone think in a language? I speak 3 languages, 2 natively and the third for my entire adult life. I can get by in a couple more to the point where most

> Do anyone think in a language? I speak 3 languages, 2 natively and the third for my entire adult life. I can get by in a couple more to the point where most people would probably claim they could speak them, and I agree with you, I rarely if ever think in language. I mean I can even remember a few times where I was thinking in some language and I quit because I noticed it was slowing me down having to actually put words on the concepts. Usually, the only time I think in language is when I have to be very precise with how I'm communicating to someone i.e. giving a presentation or negotiating some important matter and I need internal feedback on how the sentence or phrase is going to sound and work in the context I'm about to use it in. For instance, let's take an example like studying some result in a dataset. Let's say its a property like price of an item. I will not be thinking in language X when I'm studying this and its relation to say "weekday", its usually some kind of vague geometric movement or something associated with my innate concepts of "price" and "weekday". I suspect most people are actually like this, they just don't notice it as much because whenever they do switch to language mode its either a much more diliberate process (second language learners) or transparent (monolinguals).