How many languages have you dreamt in?

[tactical_buddhist]

I tend to get really excited about a new language and go balls to the wall on studying at the beginning and then lose interest when it gets hard. The one cool thing that has resulted is dreaming in my target language, either me attempting to speak it or see it on signs/walls. So far I have the following:

Spanish - quite frequently, usually once a week or so
Norwegian - when I was younger and studying it as a kid
Russian - only once but I was walking around St. Petersburg yelling 'I read War and Peace' to the locals
Korean - I taught English there, usually dreams about me using incorrect grammar
Japanese - same as Korean
Portuguese - me telling Brazilians why can't they just speak a normal sounding language like Spanish. See the word rapidamente in both languages.

What about y'all? How quickly after starting a new language do you see a word or two pop up or you see yourself attempting the language?

[Iversen]

Actually not too many - Danish, English, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Greek, maybe a few more which I have forgotten by now. But mostly just a few words, Contrary to expectation (for those who have met me and wondered where the silent-button might be located) I'm not very social/talkative in my dreams.

[Cèid Donn]

Hmmm. Languages where I've dreamed about conversing or attempting to converse with other speakers include Gaelic, Irish, Welsh, French, Spanish, German and Russian. Those ones for certain. But sometimes I dream of hearing words or other people talking in a language--I had a dream like that not long ago where a couple were speaking Dutch to one another and I could understand them, but I was speaking English to them. The most recent dream I had was I was trying to explain in Spanish to an elderly Spanish speaker what I had been writing about for my French output challenge--it was after I spent the evening doing a lot of Spanish vocabulary review on Memrise.

Other times the dream is mostly in English but there are some TL words in it, like once I had a dream that I was trying to teach someone some Hawaiian words, and he kept getting impatient with me and telling me, "No, no, that's a Maori word!" and I started getting very confused and uncertain of myself. I guess it's hard to have dreams about language learning without your anxieties about language learning making an appearance once and a while.

[alaart]

I was thinking and dreaming in Dutch for more than a year while I stayed in the Netherlands.

I was thinking and dreaming in Japanese here and then, also when I was in an immersive environment, kind of depending on the day. The interesting thing here is that I recall the brain making up words that don't exist, maybe to fill gaps in my vocabulary. Or sometimes I hear people talking in my dreams, also using words that don't exist, and my brain is simulating the experience of not knowing words and relates to this more than the actual language.. also a lot of mistakes or changing up words to something with a similar, but wrong pronunciation. Basically it is dreaming with a lot of mistakes.

I was thinking in Portuguese and Chinese before, also in an immersive situation (f.e. traveling with Chinese people), but I don't recall ever dreaming in them. Same for English, I don't recall an English dream.

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Thread: Dreaming in Foreign Languages

[devilyoudont]

I can never remember my dreams but I do talk in my sleep, and have been told I sometimes speak in Japanese and Esperanto.

[chove]

Just Spanish, I think. I remember a dream where I was trying to find a beach and couldn't remember the word "encontrar"

[rdearman]

In my dreams, I speak them all.

[jmar257]

I've definitely had dreams where I converse in Spanish, I want to say I have had the same in French but can't specifically remember. Sometimes I've had trouble falling asleep so I have fake Spanish conversations in my head and I've noticed that sometimes results in Spanish dreams.

Edit: The question is how many languages have you dreamt in, but to give a denominator to the numerator above, Spanish and French are the only two I've studied enough to even expect dreams in, and French study has only ramped up enough for me to expect that in recent months. So I guess I'm 1/2 definitely, probably 2/2.

[Montmorency]

German and Welsh, I think, although not a great deal.

I think in some dreams, I've heard, and maybe even sometimes told, jokes, and wake up with a smile on my face. But needless to say, I can never remember the jokes.