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| mjcdchess Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6890 days ago 46 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 10 05 February 2007 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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My girl friend noted that while I was asleep I spoke in Mandarin. She said this was a "good sign" I wonder if this has happened to anyone else
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6646 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 2 of 10 06 February 2007 at 5:03am | IP Logged | ||
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It certainly is a good sign. Dreaming in a target language is usually one of the last things to happen on the road to fluency, and for some it probably never does. It is a bit unusual that it is detected because you speak in your sleep, most people just wake up realizing that a dream has been entirely or partly in another language. It has happened for me in several languages, not least during travels, but still most of my dreaming is in Danish.
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| Qbe Tetraglot Senior Member United States joewright.org/var Joined 7078 days ago 289 posts - 335 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Aramaic | Message 3 of 10 06 February 2007 at 9:17am | IP Logged | ||
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It's extremely rare for me. During my first or second week of Pimsleur Japanese I had a dream that I went to a Japanese company here in the US and greeted the receptionist in Japanese, then realized that I really didn't know enough to hold any sort of conversation.
About a month ago, after 2.5 years of learning, I had my second dream. I was actually going to visit Japan and went to the airport gate. All the employees were Japanese and I greeted them. However, I got to the airport gate through a secret underground cave after leaping out of the Bat Boat and gliding across the underground lake in jet boots. So I don't think it was a premonition. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sabrina Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Denmark Joined 6594 days ago 36 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Danish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 4 of 10 06 February 2007 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes! I love to dream in a foreign language. For some reasons I've recently been dreaming quite a lot in English, and a week ago I dreamt that I had a conversation with a Morrocan guy in French (most of the dream was in Danish though). It's real good motivation!
Since you dream in another language it means that the language is incorporated into your subconcious. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6833 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 5 of 10 23 February 2007 at 6:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately I never remember my dreams, so I have no idea if I dream in other languages or not. ;___;
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| fsc Senior Member United States Joined 6272 days ago 100 posts - 117 votes Studies: French | Message 6 of 10 01 December 2007 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
I hope you are right. I have been studying French for 4 1/2 months and don't feel I am making much progress. Last night I had a short dream where I spoke French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6215 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 7 of 10 01 December 2007 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I recall having some dreams in German when I was studying in Germany. But I rarely remember my dreams, whatever the language.
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6837 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 01 December 2007 at 8:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I often recall my dreams, and sometimes bits of the meaning of what was being said in them, but I very rarely have any recollection of the exact words or any other indication of what language it was in. One dream had me speaking Mandarin fluently and I clearly remember the fact that I spoke it but have no idea at all of what I said in it.
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