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| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 17 of 21 02 May 2013 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
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I dreamt in English during the first weeks when I moved to Canada, but that was... like... years after I started learning it, although my level then was probably around A1. I guess that was because I was put into an intense atmosphere of English-speaking.
Anyway, something funny happened 4 years later, which is when I went to university and moved into a dorm. In the same week, my roommate reported that I dream-talked in Chinese while my mom told me I was talking in English in my dream, but neither of them knew what I was saying (my roommate doesn't know a thing about Chinese, but my sleep-talking must indeed be muffled if my mom couldn't make out my English). Unfortunately, I could remember neither of these dreams, and the contents of which remain a mystery. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vogue Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4255 days ago 109 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian | Message 18 of 21 03 May 2013 at 4:13am | IP Logged |
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I'm glad this thread was brought back to life, because it's an interesting topic.
I first remember dreaming partially in Spanish when I lived in Spain, but I also remember not being able to understand a lot of what was said to me in the dream. I think maybe I was hearing my roommates talking, or noise outside, or just remembering a conversation from earlier in the day. It was Spanish though. On the other hand, I remember when I first REALLY dreamed in my L2, and that was while living in Honduras. I would wake up and remember only dreaming in Spanish for the whole night. It was probably because I heard it so much, which I think plays a huge part. My friend, an Italian, told me (sounding somewhat distressed) that he was dreaming in English after talking to me all day in English. So, this appears to be normal-ish. That being said, even though it's been 2 yeas since living in a Spanish speaking country, if I'm in Honduras in my dreams, people will still speak Spanish to me, and I'll speak Spanish to them. Which is interesting in it's own right, but that doesn't appear to be a unique phenomenon. I think if you're actually dreaming in your TL, not like my first example, but having a real dream, it does mean that you're pretty functional in the language.On the other hand, the dream I had the other night where I was studying Italian, does not display any degree of fluency on my part. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4312 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 19 of 21 03 May 2013 at 4:29am | IP Logged |
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I had a dream where I was speaking a native American language, it sounded like Salish; and I could understand perfectly what people were telling me and respond, I was also a badass mountain man like Jeremiah Johnson. Odd thing is, I have close to zero experience with Salish so I think my brain was just making stuff up.
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| catullus_roar Quadrilingual Octoglot Groupie Australia Joined 4569 days ago 89 posts - 184 votes Speaks: Malay, Hokkien*, English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese*, French, German, Spanish Studies: Italian, Latin, Armenian, Afrikaans, Russian | Message 20 of 21 07 May 2013 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not really an expert but I've noticed that I sometimes dream in languages I don't even speak well yet, but sometimes I watch movies in them and it just gets locked in my head. Then again, I have no idea whether my Russian dreams actually comprise of correct Russian.
So I don't think dreaming means anything other than the fact that you've been spending some time exposing yourself to the language lately, which always leads to greater fluency. The dreams are a byproduct of increased studying, which is the real cause of increased fluency. Many people tend to misattribute (IMO) fluency as the cause of dreaming, but I see fluency as a consequence of the behavior that also results in dreaming. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| solero Triglot Newbie SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4239 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Danish Studies: French | Message 21 of 21 14 May 2013 at 7:28pm | IP Logged |
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I have been dreaming in French on and off the last couple of months. To me it seems only to be related to the
amount of effort of thought I have put into my french studies during that particular day. It is however strange, and seems not to be directly related to the amount I have used the language during the day, because I never dream in English (my native language is Swedish) even though I spend most of the day speaking English. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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