I also do that sometimes when talking, when I know the other person is proficient in English. Not everyone appreciates this, but some of the best conversations in my life were with a particular person who was like me in this regard; we'd just stream our thoughts to each other in this weird mix of Polish and English, that was hard to follow for anyone else.
> In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation.
Minä gör the same a menudo.
Yo teen det samma often.
I hago the same ofta.
Jag do lo mismo usein.
(FI/SV/EN/ES) :)
Swedish will have to be separate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdUKZLQIuQ
(Are you a finland-swede or sweden finn? If either of those, I'm a fan of both Army of Lovers and Nightwish.)
"Swedish-speaking finn" or "Finland-swede" yes.
Amateur joint translation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101696
(any native speakers care to say how close we came?)
(and notdang, on the off chance you're from somewhere around Moldova, what would you say the ethnicity of the girl in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406864 might be? I think a woman from Moldova is the normal reading, but apparently there's also an Odessa neighbourhood called Moldavanka...)
I've been thinking about this phenomenon a lot in the past and I've noticed that two main triggers are a) emotional payload of a phrase, and b) subtle differences in meaning of words. Some phrases sound better to me in English than in Polish, and it's probably driven by the context in which I've learned them. As for words, it's often the case that even if a word in Polish corresponds directly to a word in English by dictionary, their etymologies and general use patterns draw slightly different borders in thingspace. Sometimes that distinction is important, and I automatically pick the language in which the word is closer to what I mean.
(I've also found I can readily manipulate algebraic symbols without having any idea of how they should be pronounced. splodge?)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/bc/35/67bc35746db0758b5ab4...
Subvocalisation is the term for that voice in your head when you read. I've never been able to get rid of it, and trying to has always resulted in me feeling like I'm skimming rather than reading.
"reading" is not one activity, there are 100s of ways to read.
I wonder if native speakers have a greater emphasis on subvocalized pitch, or if that’s even a part of subvocalizing? Paying attention to my own internal reading now, I suspect that it is.
The intonations that give the characters their meaning are so engrained in the flow of the sentences it can feel monotone, as it is just the way it is said.
If I am reading a poem or idioms I usually like to over emphasize the tone like a classic theatrical reading because it’s fun and helps me remember what I read.
the Rosetta stone idea to map thought from languages waves (sound and light) is an interesting field of research
I have no idea how but since I was young I learned that I can read faster when I don't "voice" out the sound of thought
I also learned that as a multilingual person the "language" of choice for my thought can be different at times, even though I have no actual fondness of using any specifically