[Sca-cooks] globetrotting

[ana l. valdés]

The most strange is when people ask me in which language I dream I am always
surprised, I can't recall my "personages" talk one language or other. They
speak to me or to each other but its always in a language I know, but I can't
recognize if they speak Spanish, Swedish, English or what.
In my dreams we all know all languages of the earth and beyond...
Ana

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Ana, your scout in Outremer, said:
> >  > Right, Philippa! I am always thinking in three languages actually :(
> >  > Spanish, my first one, Swedish  my second one and English, the third
> >  > language I use...
> >
> >Wow. Do you actually think in these languages? Or do you translate them
> >to Spanish?
>
> When i lived in France, i not only thought in French, i dreamed in
> French. I couldn't carry on a conversation in English with a French
> friend's American dad (i'd speak French, he'd speak English). And
> even now when i tell people about the time i lived in France, i
> remember the number of the year in French and have to translate the
> term into English - it just comes out in French before i can think of
> it in English.
>
> When i lived in French, i had only studied French for about 2-1/2
> years in high school and i was in France 6 years after i had
> graduated from high school, so i had studied French neither a lot nor
> recently when i went to France in 1973.
>
> I had studied Mandarin Chinese the first semester of my first year in
> college - then i dropped out - it was, after all, 1967. But i still
> remember a few phrases and how to count.
>
> I began to dream in a mixture of French and English when i was
> travelling in Morocco with my daughter last year, even though my
> French is not what it had been, after not speaking it for almost 30
> years.
>
> I never got like that in Bahasa Indonesia. I think that was largely
> because my Indonesian ex-husband spoke to me in English at home and
> he liked hanging out with ex-pats. Of course i had to speak
> Indonesian every day to bargain in the markets and with the betjak
> and bemo drivers, to talk to my neighbors and street vendors, when i
> went to concerts and theater performances and movies, etc.
>
> Anahita
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