Fellow multilingual people, how strongly do you:
1) “think” in a certain language
2) use a different thinking language
3) feel that you have different thoughts based on the language you think in
4) how related is the language you speak to the way you think ?
Also people who are in the field (cognitive neuroscience? Linguistics?), what’s some good current material on the topic?
I know it’s a lot of weird questions that are probably impossible to answer.
FWIW I can’t really pinpoint if I think in a certain language. I do think my personality changes a bit or rather, I feel like my personality changes (for example the cliche of the rude French person with a proclivity for sexualized language). Certain things are easier to express in a certain language and thus influence the recursive thinking-speaking/writing loop (ever tried to explain something technical in French, or do Deleuze style poetic rambling in English?), but it feels like an externality.