[Suki]

Originally posted by El_Cid
Take a look at http://spanish.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm. There you can see other ways to get spanish characters.

About thinking words in local language, it's normal (me too..). But if we were an authentic spanish-and-english-speaker, we wouldn't have to think in this way.

Suki: El Cid, you should have said "In terms of speaking in a native language it is very normal, when one is truly bilingual in both Spanish and English (los idiomas siempre se ponen en letra mayuscula en ingles), and it is unnecessary to have to codeswitch." That is what you wanted to convey El Cid.

This question should be responsed by something that speak both languages fluently, as Suki.

Suki: El Cid deberias decir--You should direct the question to someone who speaks both languages fluently, for example, Suki.

Sukiiii. What language do you dream in? What language do you think in? English? Spanish? Both? Depending on situation? Depending on dream?

I dream, I love, and also thoroughly enjoy many earthly activities in Spanish, I cook in Spanish, and at home I speak in Spanish, poetry and many other things such as: Listening to music, and noticing the beautiful things in life in my mind, I associate it with speaking in Spanish. I think in English too...El Cid. I think in both. I appreciate literature, film and books and music in both....I enjoy both. I also enjoy French and am studying Chinese (Mandarin). Though I do not have the time. Diversity is lovely is it not El Cid? The best of both worlds. Cada idioma es un universo completo con todos sus gestos, ademanes, costumbres y colores---la variedad es lo que le da sabor a la vida.

Hopebee: you should try to get spanish-¿subtitled? films. It's a good way to learn to think in another language.

See you!

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