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I wonder if your being bi-lingual has anything to do with the different ways we experience language (I'm not bi-lingual ... )

• TeMPOraL 4y ago
  Good question. I recently started to wonder about it myself. In my train of thoughts, I tend to switch between languages on the fly, based on which one feels like it's bringing me closer conceptually and emotionally to the thought I want to express. Or at least I used to, because I only recently realized that, over the last few years, I've mostly switched to thinking in English only. I'm now in a weird state: my native language (Polish) is still easier for me to use, but also using it feels wrong somehow. Often enough, when talking to people around me, I notice I'm translating my own thoughts from English. It might be that this process of learning and internalizing a second language, to the point it eventually took over my first one, is what changed my experience of the thinking process itself.