I once heard from a Yoruba elder that "Ede abinibi ni a fi n ronu", meaning "we think in our mother tongue". I agreed it's true for me because I think mostly in my mother tongue. But I still doubt it's true for everyone. Is it true for you? Do you reason in English language or your mother tongue?

I was born in the North and can speak Hausa flawlessly.

But I still think in Yoruba.
Always.

Igbo oh. I digest and process almost all info in Igbo first.

Mostly Igbo,especially when emotion is involve...But I think about chics in English...

Sure.. Yoruba


buh if it's AngryMode thinking, forget, it's English...

Mother tongue! But I also think thinking in the language you're learning for example, is a good way to improve.

Lmao,"think in my mother tongue",Lolz. I pray ooo.
I think in d most accepted language dat flies "Pidgin english"

My brain is bi-lingual.

Sure,,,I was born in south east,,but I think in hausa

As for me, i think in English and before now, i thought every does (i.e educated people).

Mother tongue rocks! English as how

Easy to think in mother tongue cos it will be a deep thinking but to an advance level in English

Although I am well versed in both, cos of what I doo all the time, I think in English. I still reason some things in my mother tongue. Like when I go to my grams and she drops some really deep words, I have to do the thinking in that language

Any one smarter than the other wins.

It depends on the location and the lang been spoken there, make I no disgrace my self un Umunna meeting by vomiting eng.

Nna ehn...na pidgin i dey use process my thinking o!!

In pigin bro. Dont blame ♍e, I grew up in da ghetto

Lol.. How do you think in your mother Tongue.. I think in a corporate manner.. Whats the point spending millions in school if you are still gonna think like a Yoruba or Igbo person. Wasted Investment!!!

Dondav: I was born in Igbo Land, Grew up in Yoruba Land and my brain couldn't understand any better than the other. Until my English Teacher induced English Language forcefully into my brain.
I.E, My results
English Language: A1
Igbo Language: D7
Yoruba Language: E8
So! English is my main language.

You gave your consent.

I always think in yoruba

Ijogz K: Lol.. How do you think in your mother Tongue.. I think in a corporate manner.. Whats the point spending millions in school if you are still gonna think like a Yoruba or Igbo person. Wasted Investment!!!

I think in english, process it in hausa and the end product is yoruba

Ijogz K: Lol.. How do you think in your mother Tongue.. I think in a corporate manner.. Whats the point spending millions in school if you are still gonna think like a Yoruba or Igbo person. Wasted Investment!!!

WTF!!!!!!!

Wow.. I never thought about this..
I'm just realizing it..
I think in English..

yinglish!

Ijogz K: Lol.. How do you think in your mother Tongue.. I think in a corporate manner.. Whats the point spending millions in school if you are still gonna think like a Yoruba or Igbo person. Wasted Investment!!!

u sounds like an Alien

Depends my mood. Sometimes Igbo, sometimes english but MOST times upside down

Lol. Interesting topic. I think entirely in English. Thinking in Igbo is ruled out, and I avoid the temptation of thinking in broken English.

Think in English, Pray in Mother tongue.
Bt most times I strategise all my babe toasting thots in swahili, wassoulou and Lingali..and when I need 2 toast a born again babe, I do d thinking in Hebrew b4 I do the toasting in British English bt for the badt babes, black american english(frm the Bronx) specificaly.

Very funny topic!

It simply means when spoken to U take more than a split second to assimilate!

It also means that you'll always read a wrong meaning to everything people say outside ur mother tongue.

Because my people say, 'Lies are best told in English'

Abeg I read smthing lk broken english.. Na werin be broken or pidgin english my country ppl? E don tey wey I dey try knw werin pidgin english mean o! Anybody fit help me? Hw dem dey speak d pidgin/broken english sef? I for lk learn am sha.. E go nice frm d way I dey see am.