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

Why do you think your brain doesn’t translate it into French and then back again before it gives you the result? Because that’s exactly what it does. You simply don’t notice this happening.
The less fluent you are in a language, the more you notice it happening.