Once you master a second language, how does your brain interpret the input?

Question

I am fully bilingual but I mostly read in English.

How is my brain capable of reading English and directly provide me with images and feelings instead of trying to translate into French (the language I was born with) beforehand?

Thank you.

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Answer 1

Your brain “learns” to link the sounds/letters with something specific it’s the same for your native language or any other you learn after so when you speak/read you just know what things are, at first you still don’t have those connections so you have to “find” the translated word