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This is not even true, plenty of people think in think in their second language.
by hoka-one-one 6y ago
This is not even true, plenty of people think in think in their second language.
- billforsternz 6y agoNo, because we are talking about the foreign person trying to learn the new (second) language by total immersion. They obviously aren't going to start thinking in the second language until after they've learned it.
- rjsw 6y agoYou can start thinking in the second language before you have fully mastered it.
- buzzerbetrayed 6y agoSure but what happens if you try to think of a word you haven’t learned yet?
- 082349872349872 6y agoCircumlocution. In this case, circumcogitation. Desh walowda we fo du owbit owta we. (there's more than one way to transfer orbits)
- siltpotato 6y agoI know from experience that you have to train yourself to do that. Unless you grew up with two languages, an experience only slightly familiar to me, you have been, until you started learning language 2, thinking in your native language your whole life. Very hard habit to break!