halarious that no one has yet to vote for mandarin but i guess if they are so fluent in chinese, than they probebly would be looking at the chinese written forums too instead of us ABC, CBC, BBC and who ever else there are
I think it depends on what your hearing that counts. The more your exposed t oeach language, the more you will be fluent.
i usually think in english, cuz it's my first language but when i needa speak mandarin, cantonese, toi san or some other language then i have to think of that language becuase i'm not fluent.
i blame the fact that i'm an ABC that i think in english if only i can read and write in chinese, then maybe i'll think more in chinese
I mostly think in Cantonese before I think in English for some reason. Stuff like phone numbers I remember it in my head in Canto then have to think before I can rap it back out in English >.<
I am more biligual than I am ambidextrous. But thought process comes in all languages depending on the situation: think French when I need to speak it, Japanese when I am Jdorama-intoxicated, English in general, Chinese in general. But since my flat is occupied by people who all speaks Cantonese, but have a total of like 6+ languages going on (Cantonese, Mandarin, French, English, Japanese, Korean and some Chinese dialect), it's really difficult to say what lanugage I think it. Probably English or Cantonese, I think.
Im abc, so i think in both ways, u get influenced by a variety of things that change your ways of thinking e.g HK movies, tvb series... you pick up ways of analysing situations. -rockon
Very interesting question ^^ I would speak Cantonese with my parents and English to others, but I also think in English too lol However when I go back to visit my family in Guangzhou as I am always speaking Cantonese, I start to think in Cantonese lol XD
I think in English like 90% of the time cause Ive lived in UK most of my life, but when Im with my canto friends and I speak a lot of canto, i begin to think in canto