Do you ever have dreams in your target language?

I did not dream at all in German until I did this mini immersion thing like spending 8 hours every single day for the next 2 months.

  1. At the end of it, I dreamed a German sentence subconsciously during my sleep which I thought I should share with you guys. It is a kind of funny and self-explanatory though.

" Ich liebe deutsch. Es ist meine Frau."

Thanks

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I translated your sentence for my wife, and she said that if I ever get to that point then I have to stop learning German.

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In English, very often.
In Spanish, I think only once.

I have dreamed in Spanish a couple of times, but not as often as I would have hoped by now.

This happened every now and then to me at a time when my mind was completely occupied by my target language. Since then I think it has happened only once. So at least for me it seems to be connected to level of immersion. Back then I was only studied for a few months so my level was pretty low.

Funnily enough, I felt completely fluent in my dreams. I wonder how much of that was a failure to notice mistakes and how much the lack of insecurity and self doubt actually helped.

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Wish I had a dreams on foreign languages.

Iā€™m working almost exclusively with input right now, but this week I had a dream where I spoke Spanish for a bit with someone. It was interesting to me because my ā€œdream selfā€ was not anxious at all about speaking, and it was all grammatically correct. It makes me wonder about which parts of our brains are active in dreams and whether our ā€œdream speechā€ is more closely related to what we say/think when weā€™re awake or based more on what we hear!

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During 3 months of 1-2 hours of study a day (after some on-and-off studying before that), I have had 2 or 3 dreams where Iā€™ve spoken my target language. I have a feeling that with continued consistency it will happen more and more! Iā€™m sure you will have one soon enough!

The last time we were on vacation in Paris, I had a dream in French. Like wnint, I was fluent with no hesitation which also really made me think about the self-doubt/sabotage. My wife has told me, several times, that I sometimes speak French in my sleep (she has no idea what I am saying - which may be a good thing!!!

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Donā€™t worry. I donā€™t think itā€™s an indicator at all. Sure, it might mean you are getting better of course, but lack of the dreams doesnā€™t mean anything.

Itā€™s happened to me a number of times, but I wouldnā€™t call it a lot.

Ever since I live in Poland I started to have a lot of dreams in Polish, sometimes other languages might pop up out of nowhere but Iā€™d say that Dutch and Polish are the main ā€˜dream languagesā€™ for me at the moment.

I think thatā€™s really cool. I never had dreams in my target language.

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that suggests me that your language learning schedule is not ā€œintensiveā€. Correct me If I am wrong. Like 6-8 hours every day.

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