Can bilinguals think in both of their languages?

Hmmm, surely you can think in German if you were exposed to it at a young age?

I can a bit but I wouldn't really say I was fluent in it. I used to be as I started school there but when I moved here and started learning English I was 6 and I started forgetting German.

I think in both, I definitely know I think in punjabi because I swear at people in my head in punjabi.

I think mostly in English because that is the language I read, watch tv and speak etc but recalling conversations with my mum and some other things are when I know I'm thinking in punjabi.

I was thinking in English when I typed up this post :P

I think in both, I definitely know I think in punjabi because I swear at people in my head in punjabi.

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Oyyyyye! Tuhadi maa di..........!
Tuhadi behen di............!

1) Can you think in English?

2) Can you think in Punjabi?

3) What age did you learn both languages?

4) Can you think in any other language?

Oyyyyye! Tuhadi maa di..........!
Tuhadi behen di............!

1) Can you think in English?

2) Can you think in Dutch?

3) What age did you learn both languages?

4) Can you think in any other language?

1) Can you think in English?

2) Can you think in Welsh?

3) What age did you learn both languages?
5-6ish I could speak both
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*4) Can you think in any other language?

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1 and 2: Yes
3: 4-5ish
4:no*

Of course we can- we are essentially just talking in our heads thats what thinking is

I think in both, I definitely know I think in punjabi because I swear at people in my head in punjabi.

I think mostly in English because that is the language I read, watch tv and speak etc but recalling conversations with my mum and some other things are when I know I'm thinking in punjabi.

I was thinking in English when I typed up this post :P

Are you bilingual? Can you think in both languages or just english?

I just said yes I can

1) Can you think in English?

2) Can you think in Welsh?

3) What age did you learn both languages?

4) Can you think in any other language?

Yes, you definitely can!
I've gone to a bilingual school so I know both English and Italian fluently and I assure you, you can definitely pick which one you want to think in. Sometimes I start thinking half and half, and that's when things start to get confusing

I'll give you the basics now.

1. If you are basically fluent then yes, you can think in either language.

2. The language you naturally think in depends on which language you feel closer to and the situation. E.g. if you live in UK and are surrounded by English people, you will think in English. If you go visit France and are surrounded by people speaking French, you will switch to thinking in French.

This is simply because some words don't have translations or cannot be interpreted the same way so it is easier to respond if you are thinking in that language. So our brains adapt and switch.

3. Yes, you can willingly switch between the languages you think in if you want.

4. The age you learned the language does not really matter, it is the level of fluency which matters. Obviously, if you learned it at younger age, you will probably be more proficient in it compared to a language you started learning 1 year ago.

Interesting facts:
1.The accents people have while speaking a different language appear mostly because the tongue and mouth are used to certain movements. That is why people from the same country have similar accents. Example, Russian language is, what I like to call, a hard language (as in, hard in the sounds while French or English have pretty soft sounds). So when Russians speak English, they are used to the hardness and harshness of Russian and find I hard to add the softness that English requires.

2. The more interesting thing to investigate is how speaking in different languages affect personality. There have been studies that the same person speaking in one language may act more polite, change their tone of voice to a higher pitch. And when speaking in another, they will act harsher and change their tone to a lower pitch.