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| Umin Triglot Newbie Germany despairedreading.worRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4548 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 9 of 21 29 June 2012 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
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Well, you don't always remember your dreams, so you might even dream in your TL without knowing it. I'm pretty
sure I must have had dreams in either Japanese or English up to this point, but just don't remember them. I mean I even think in these two languages for a large amount of time. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that dreaming in your TL means your brain is very occupied with it and that should be a good sign. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5069 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 10 of 21 29 June 2012 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
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I agree that it has to do more with exposure than proficiency. (I speak very little Kurdish, but I've had dreams with full sentences of Kurdish in them).
I find that the language of the dream has a lot to do with the person or people in the dream. Most often, I dream about Arabic-speaking people in Arabic, etc. But sometimes I've spoken to people in the wrong language in my dreams. I would be interested to know if it is normal at all to use a word in a dream that is not a conscious part of your active vocabulary. I once used an alternate form a verb that upon waking I didn't think I knew but when I looked it up it actually turned out to be more correct (more commonly used by natives) than the form of the verb I consciously knew. I could well have heard it before, but it wasn't part of my active vocabulary at all. Ever happened to anyone else? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 11 of 21 29 June 2012 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
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Except English (which is so overwhelming, but I don't even remember particular dream in English), I had a dream in Macedonian. Interesting feeling :)
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| scribe Newbie United States Joined 4893 days ago 11 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 12 of 21 30 June 2012 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for all the input. The more I think about it, it seems to me that the presence of
my TL in my dream could either be attributed to a strong desire to speak it in real life or to the fact that the language has become much more rooted in my subconscious. I'm a bit more inclined to go with the former, simply because I haven't had the opportunity to hold a real conversation with another speaker in part because of the dearth of Spanish speakers in the area where I live. Guess I better go find someone to converse with, or it looks like my desired speaking ability will always be just a dream. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6317 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 13 of 21 30 June 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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I've had a number of dreams recently, though I don't attribute a great deal to them in terms of significance or "deeper meaning". I have even had relatively complex conversations involving multiple exchanges in what I recall upon waking as quite correct and natural language usage. I don't think this really implies anything beyond the fact that I have come into contact at some point with words and phrase from this language. Like everything else I encounter in my life, it gets stored somewhere in memory, fragmented and incomplete, but still there. For whatever reason, they emerge in short bursts during dreams, almost as a kind of anthology of things that relate in some way to things you've encountered at some point in history. Dreaming is a fascinating phenomenon, but as far as language study goes, I wouldn't presume or hope for too much in regard your language potential.
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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4601 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 14 of 21 30 June 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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its interesting isnt it... Ive dreamt in Japanese many times by now, most of the time with words I dont even know yet, but it registers as Japanese... I suppose it makes a good form of motivation, to strive for what I understood in my dreams
on another note, the people to which I speak Japanese with in my dreams dont know how to speak it... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4652 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 15 of 21 18 April 2013 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
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Reviving the thread.
I've had dreams in English, German and Spanish. English doesn't surprise me, as I use it on day-to-day basis. Spanish wasn't a surprise either, because the dreams came when I started studying it. But German was a shocker, since it's usually set against a wartime background and I never learned much of it. But heck, I've even dreamed in a conlang a few times, so German shouldn't shock me... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4445 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 16 of 21 02 May 2013 at 7:31am | IP Logged |
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Interesting topic. Dream is something in your subconscious, not something you do intentionally. You can
think about something in a language during the day like you walk by a supermarket and ask yourself what something costs in French or Spanish. For me to dream about something in the language I'm studying I'd have to bring up images of a classroom. In the old days when I was studying French on and off that never came up. And what usually comes up are people I associate with. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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