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| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5982 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes  Speaks: Spanish* | Message 9 of 19 30 April 2009 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
You can be sure you think in another language when you can follow a conversation between natives at a natural pace, or a radio programme, and understand everything they say.
By doing a lot of listening, but it doesn't really take any time to start thinking in your target language, you can do that from the kick-off with methods like Assimil. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5839 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 10 of 19 30 April 2009 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It's a process that happens naturally. You need daily exposure to a language to start thinking in it, if it is not your mother tongue. I don't think you can force it and I don't think there is a benefit in doing that even if it was possible.
You know you're getting there when you start dreaming in a foreign language, because what you dream is beyond your conscious control. An example is that you dream that you have a conversation with someone and when you wake up you remember what you said, and that it was in a foreign language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6666 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 11 of 19 30 April 2009 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thinking in other languages is something I haven't ever tried to achieve consciously, it just happened to me when I was immersed in the language. At some point, I realized that my inner voice was in another language. I think immersion is crucial.
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| Earle Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6316 days ago 276 posts - 276 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Norwegian, Spanish | Message 12 of 19 01 May 2009 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One sure sign that you've crossed the divide is if your significant other doesn't speak the language of the area (and you do, of course), and you turn to her/him and continue in language you've in which you've been conversing. For example, my wife has to give me the gentle reminder "Do you realize you're speaking German?" A German exchange student we hosted for a year once looked at my wife and asked "Are you speaking English or German..."
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 14 of 19 01 May 2009 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
My method is to think of a particular person I would speak the language to. I start to think what I would say and I automatically get to German, French or any other available language mode. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrasiteren Newbie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5541 days ago 10 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English | Message 15 of 19 24 September 2009 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't remember it but my mother told me that one day when she was trying to wake me in
the morning, I told her: "go away, I'm trying to sleep" or something similar to this (in English of course and yes my mother knows enough English to be able to recall this). And I occasionally had dreams in English when I was using this program called "Dyned". But nowadays I don't study that intensely. So dreams are no more. And one more thing, I find it easier to converse or think in a language after you spend some time (e.g. 15 minutes) on speaking it with a native speaker. Edited by mrasiteren on 24 September 2009 at 4:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 19 24 September 2009 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know that you can force it because I use the method as a substitute for personal contact with a teacher, when I'm dealing with natives without feeling that I'm ready for a fullblown conversation and simply to get something useful out of spare moments. You just start slowly with single words, short phrases and later full sentences with 'holes', before you end up with whole sentences. Sometimes it is a help just to read a few genuine sentences before you try to think in your target language, until it becomes a habit. Edited by Iversen on 24 September 2009 at 6:18pm 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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