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tldr (actually, it's quite short and worth reading) - practice sub-verbally as much as you can. If you see a cat, you think "there's a cat" in your head. 2 adv
by wisty 16y ago
tldr (actually, it's quite short and worth reading) - practice sub-verbally as much as you can. If you see a cat, you think "there's a cat" in your head.
2 advantages I think this has:
1) It's good practice.
2) You will find holes in your vocabulary, and that that will encourage you to fill them.
- hammock 16y agoThis. Subverbal thinking IS the switch. When you start to think in a language, or even dream in a language, that's when you know the switch has flipped.
- deno 16y agoDo people dream in a specific language? I can think in more than one language, but my dreams are abstract, rather than verbal.
- hackerblues 16y agoI have a bilingual friend who claims after spending few weeks in Australia or Japan his dreams switch to the local vocabulary.
- hammock 16y agoWhen I was living in Spain I definitely started dreaming in Spanish (it's weird to describe... ) and I know foreign friends of mine have shared similar experiences where they started dreaming in English in the US. Haven't flipped the switch on my Portuguese yet, but I'm trying..