Are you a bilingual speaker?
Do you often do an inner monologue? In what circumstances?
Is it in a verb form, in what language?
Does it have any sound, music or graphics?
In what circumstances do you do an inner monologue?
Notes from Interview
Munus, 23, he/him, taiwan
Engineering Science,
Mandarin (first language), Taiwannese, Hakka, English
Alone, subway, waiting, cooking, when i’m not occupied
English, prepare to talk in English; mixed in Taiwan
Mixture of sound and images; thoughts in verbal
Inner words, sounds: aha
Engineering major; bilingual language -not translate;
6 when study English; in the middle school start to monologue in English;
Western music -lyric “sound and music in English”
Memory is not graphic form; animate the pic; fabricated according to your current thinking; status
Personal thing: with Mandarin; thinking about love
Laurie, 28, She/her
Engineering Science,
English, spanish conversational 9 years , and Russian semi-conversational 3 year
All the time; focusing on something;
English;
Verbal in font;
Computer engineer
Images and texts
Using words all the time!
Bookworm
Smitha ，25，she/her, Chennai
English, telugu (mother tongue), tamil (city), hindi (country generally); visual art;
Alone., self motivation, remember, memory
Voice in my head; colors, visualize the book; patterns; randomly, english
When listening to music, dancing in my head (Duo did that too!)
Swipe in game; action based visualization in your brain
Hanna, 28, Norway, She/her
English, spanish, swedish/ Danish, Norwegian
70% norwegian 30% english
talking , reading, planning to talk
Feeling attached to somethings you see, words, not sentences
Smells, sounds, visuals,
comparison what past experiences,
memory, feeling (hard to visualize)
Synthia Yang, 24, Beijing
English, Mandarin, French, Korean
Sensitive to accents.
Especially before sleep, especially stressed, assignments,