This is proberly a really simple question but i had a discussion with a friend and we were wondering if people who have learnt a second language dream in there first or second eg if my first lanuage is french but i also can speak english would i dream in french or english?. My friend thinks proberly your first language i reckon possibly both tho.Anyone know? does anyone speak several lanuages?if so what do you dream in?
I lived in Italy for nearly ten years, and when I had conversations in my dreams, they were mainly in Italian. But I remember a sense of "italian-ness" in my dreams, maybe because I was there for so long. I also used to sleep talk in Italian.
I dream in French and English. I'm also known to talk in my sleep - my husband has told me if I say sthg in English and he asks me to repeat I'll translate into French!
I grew up in Britain, have lived over 20 years in Germany and dream in both languages. I also took an intensive Turkish course a few years ago and had dreams in Turkish for a short while after that.
I used to knoa an elderly polish gebtleman who hdad lived in the UK since WWII, he dreamed in English, than as he got older he started dreaming in Polish and his accent got stronger again.
Odd.
I am brazilian and live in England for 7 years. I am also a fluent spanish speaker. I dream in both english and portuguese, but mostly in english now. When I go to visit my family I usually dream in portuguese. I think it is the language that you are most exposed too. However, it took a while for me to start dreaming in English. When you start dreaming in a second language it usually means that you are fluent in it.