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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When your ability in a non-native language gets good enough, your brain treats it pretty much the same as your native language. “Car” and “voiture” both have similar neural pathways and invoke the same thing because you just know the words have the same meaning.
People with worse language skills might form a sentence in their native language first and sort of “manually” translate it, but when you’re what could be considered fluent in a language, there’s no mental “detour” like that.
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