Ecxentrique SG As above.. Does your brain think with a certain language? i.e. if u speak in english more, do you think in english?? just curious.. wonder if people think in hokkien.. hmm.. can u imagine yourself thinking in your own dialect? i gotta admint.. i tried that. and kind of slow things down a bit..
abao SG when im speaking english, i tink in chinese when im speaking chinese, i tink in english this way i can nvr improve on either of my languages...
FireIce SG when im suppose to produce a writing in english, i will have alotta ideas and inspirations in chinese......then have to mentally translate....... applies otherwise...... when u count something, do u count in english or chinese or dialect or spanish or thai?
Fatum SG errrrm .... abstract ? .... i.e. you "feel" ideas and concepts, but don't directly "think" and describe them in real language every time ....
Ecxentrique SG but then it will impair your ability to communicate with others who are not familiar with the language..
FireIce SG there are 2 school of tots for this language before thoughts or thoughts before language long long long ago, when ur ancestors still living in caves, they have tots already.....but language is not as structured as today to convey tots to one another..... but then, it is known that cavemen days oredi have "language" and symbols..... mainly utterances and drawings imitating the shape of things.....so some ppl argue that language should come first then ppl can develop thoughts....
ceecookie SG yea...like when i was in china, the rural area...i was deaf to the language there i cant even order chicken wing...i flap my arm they also dunno but i know a little bit hokkien...enough for some broken basic words like nice or so
Ecxentrique SG sounds like the age old chicken or egg first problem.. so which came first? thought or language? i would think that thought would come first.. followed by the need to express and communicate it to another.. for which language will then come in as a medium to facilitate that sort of mental transaction..
Ecxentrique SG wow.. just curious.. in order to come up with this reply. hw many languages did your brain process?
FireIce SG then this raises the question of.......who should learn whose language? chinaman must learn italian? or should the french learn cantonese? no doubt english is the business language, we should not forget our roots and culture..... ang mohs will not be amazed if you can speak english but he will mock u if he ask u about chinese cultures and traditions and u can't answer
Fatum SG hmmm ... interesting .... so does that make me more ... primitive ? ... but sometimes thoughts aren't always fleshed out in language inside my head ... and i suspect it's true for most people at least to a certain extent too ... say when you play chess for instance ... the moves and strategies come as "feelings" to you, no ? ... as least not to me ... I don't flesh out my moves in words ...
Ecxentrique SG hmm.. but wont it actually affect how you react.. as in thinkin in so many language vs getting the reply out?
SilverPal SG I speak in english, think in english, dream in english, count in deutch… Whe speaking to some of my friends, they prefer to speak mandarin, so I speak mandarin to them.
