I grew up with Spanish but somehow got English mostly ingrained in my brain between English classes during prescolar I didn't remember until years ago when I was told about them...and roaming the internet for a long time while sometimes getting into forums and later on Discord servers.

It feels interesting because of how a lot of times I just write straight into English despite Spanish being my native language, probably because I've got used to talking about stuff that tends to have a bigger audience in English speaking sites or chatrooms.

I definitely don't know a lick of German, Swedish or any of those other languages you mentioned though. Really interesting to hear that because of your childhood and growing up through school in another country you have learned that many languages.

Oh, and by the time you are reading this...Merry Christmas!!

I'm happy to see more shitposts popping up. 

English is my default brought from early exposure to TV shows and books written in English (because I love books). I'd be confident about using English than my local dialect or national language. 

Lol, I definitely don't think in Python😄   English for me.

Me think binary 🤖

Joke apart, I found myself thinking in Chinese when I was learning it. I read it could reconfigure your brain learning it because it's such a different language.

And now that I'm involved in Hive, with so many contacts everywhere in the world, English is taking over my mother language to the point that I sometimes have hard times finding some words.<div><a href="https://engage.hivechain.app">![](https://i.imgur.com/XsrNmcl.png)</a></div>

I never put any thought into this topic until recently when I moved to the Netherlands and started working as a hotel receptionist as opposed to doing nothing. I had 6 flags under my name, one for each language I speak. A guest asked me "which language do you count in?" I was like wtf? What does that determine? He told me it determines your personal native language. The primary language your brain processes things with is the language you count in. Interesting take, no? I grew up with 6 major languages surrounding me. Without knowing it, I was native in 4 languages as a kid coz I was too dumb to pick up the other 2. In school I took french but don't remember a single thing. Then moved to Ukraine and learned another language. And now in the Netherlands learning one more just to get my Dutch medical license. In retrospect, all those languages helped me become more open and maybe even friendly. What always worked for me was listening, I pick up languages quickly through that. Reading and watching, not so much. But the languages in my head change according to situations. I think in different languages depending on the topic - which as I am writing makes me feel like I might be a little cuckoo in the head x'D

I started to think in English from time to time a little less than a year ago. An effect of writing a blog every day in English. I'm still thinking in my native language most of the time, though. The brain automatically switches to English when a thought has something to do with Hive. 

Learning English was one of the precious side effects of being active here. I often thought "Ah, it would be so nice to know English and understand all that stuff and people who confidently use that language." But learning wasn't in my mind back then. I wasn't in the mood for that kind of effort.

Blogging brought the knowledge in a fun, playful, and sometimes emotionally charged way. Both good and bad emotions played their roles in giving a strong motivation. 

So, yeah, I think in English from time to time. And I'm still pretty much amazed at that fact. 

I learned English from a very young age thanks to video games, I don't remember a time when I didn't know at least a little bit of all the words and structures it has, I can't say that I "think" in it but it's funny how some studies say that brains work differently depending on the language they master, I think there is certainly some truth there

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Can you really know so many languages and not forget them as the years go by?  Incredible, I am still working on perfecting my native language when writing, Spanish has so many words and we use so few