Hello, I’m somewhere between N5 and N4. I can hold and understand conversations and song lyrics, as well as easy to understand TV shows and anime. I play action video games with Japanese people with very little issues, if I don’t know something I might say “what’s that purple thing over there?”
I was busy with studies and didn’t study Japanese as much but I recently picked up the bare minimum (Duolingo). I don’t usually experience language in dreams, communication is always nonverbal. I’m wondering if there is some sort of mechanism behind learning languages that might influence if said language appears in one’s dream.
I know this is more of a linguistics and brain science question but I’d appreciate any input.
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My wife tells me that I speak Japanese when I’m sleeping.
I’ve had them, though not as often as when I was studying it at school. I need often have dreams about things I’m learning when I can leave them for a few days, such as playing instruments so maybe it’s something to do with the learning process.
I used to have dreams in Japanese when I lived in England, but now I’m in Japan I don’t think I’ve had any yet 😂
God, please
Im quite sure dreaming is to process your experiences and thoughts of your wake-time, so maybe your brain is just processing your japanese input of when you were awake
I dream in English and sometimes in Japanese (and I’m French). I sometimes have self conversation or people talking to each other in my dreams and it can be in different languages. Not sure how it works in the brain but I’m guessing it because your brain can and your mind might want to or because it’s linked to the subject of your dream.
My old French teacher said that you know you’re fluent in a language when you start dreaming in that language.
Could you transcribe your typical conversation in Japanese? Just curious
Yeah, pretty common you’ll dream about things you experience during the day. Kind of what dreams are
It took me a couple years of studying Spanish and putting active effort into thinking in it while awake before I had a dream in Spanish. I think it’s probably a good sign that the language is becoming more natural to you