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| tornus Diglot GroupieRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4948 days ago 82 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Danish | Message 1 of 43 14 November 2010 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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have you ever dream in your target language ? i think when it's happen it's good as you begin to think and work in that language.
half of my dream include foreign language dialog, most in English last time i dream i was talking to someone in Spanish, the funny thing was that i needed to say "last" and i don't remember how to say it, so i replace it by "third" which doesn't mean the same thing at all! then i started to speak in English and the people who i was talking to laugh at me ! when i woke up, i didn't remember what was i talking about, but i remember my mistake and which word i wasn't able to say! this rocks! i never speak to native speaker in the target language in my dream, but with friends, and the language is not spoken really good, it's spoken at my level (it's normal i suppose) oh and a month after i started to learn swedish i had my only dream in swedish, i said in it basics things like "i like it", no more than 3 sentences, but i was happy to have my first dream in swedish! another thing is when i needed to learn vocabulary for a Spanish test, i learn it before sleeping, and then when i woke up, i know it way better! ( this doesn't happen a lot, though ) do you experienced the same thing ? Do you think we can study foreign language while sleeping? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5332 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 2 of 43 15 November 2010 at 12:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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I had some dreams including English and french, however in the dreams I was aware that I spoke a foreign language and had to translate.
However, I dreamt twice in polish (a language I am right now giving a lot effort to), and in those dreams speaking polish seemed quite natural to me, and I didn't translate. By the way, one of the dreams included Lech Wałęsa being my taxi driver and we both started complaining in polish about just how annoying my polish teacher was :-) 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4977 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 3 of 43 16 November 2010 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I keep having dreams in Japanese. Also, French, Chinese, and Korean. It's so wierd
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5186 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 43 16 November 2010 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I very frequently dream in foreign languages. While you sleep, the brain rehashes everything you've done that day; if you studied or spoke foreign languages, you're bound to dream about them.
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| irishpolyglot Nonaglot Senior Member Ireland fluentin3months Joined 5438 days ago 285 posts - 892 votes Speaks: Irish, English*, French, Esperanto, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Sign Language Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 43 16 November 2010 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I also dream in my target language on a regular basis. The way I do it is to force myself to have a mental "voiceover" in that language. Saying things to myself like "Damnit I'm out of milk" or "That girl's cute!" or whatever has me thinking in the language. Even at a basic stage you can maintain this.
When I do it efficiently enough, the dream does naturally follow the progression of the language I've been thinking in all day. One other thing that has been effective has been use of Lucid dreaming. If you Google it you'll find lots of ideas. The one catch is that you will *think* you are dreaming in the language, but since it's all in your head you could be making up words and thinking that they are right. Having audio on in the language may encourage you to dream in that language, but without focus you will NOT learn anything unless you hear the same phrases over and over again, which would drive me mad. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5947 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 6 of 43 16 November 2010 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think hearing the same text repeated over and over, even if it's long, would work too. I've left a recording of an audio news/interview article in Greek going during the night. I was awake for the first few repetitions, and was definitely aware of how little I understood of it in the beginning. Throughout the night I woke up a few times hearing phrases that I understood, and in the morning I understood (or felt like I understood) the whole thing without much problem. A similar thing has happened with a dialogue I have repeatedly shadowed in Georgian--I can now understand a good part of it even though I don't know more than a few words in the language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5092 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 7 of 43 17 November 2010 at 12:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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My fiancee has been woken a few times in recent years, with me talking in my sleep in German. If only the poor girl knew what she was getting herself into...
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| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4927 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 8 of 43 17 November 2010 at 8:04am | IP Logged | |||||
I have many recordings of native speakers reading articles in French. The samples I have about are 2 - 3 minutes long, is that a good length for trying what you did? I'm really interested in trying it out... Edited by CheeseInsider on 17 November 2010 at 8:04am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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