2.1

• Our ability of speech sets us apart from other animals, yet we are not sure where it came from. Children are taught to speak by listening to adults speaking and by being talked to. As soon as children begin to speak, they learn a lot by talking to other people. This way, they can ask questions, get answers, learn new words and expressions and the ideas that revolve around the usage of language start to form. They start to connect words to visuals, sounds, and scents. As soon as a child can talk, monologue can be developed as well. I believe this happens as soon as the child starts making connections between words and subjects.

 

2.2

• Personally, I often think in English, although it is not uncommon for me to switch between English and Dutch inside my head every so often. Whenever I have been talking English a lot during the day, I also start thinking in English. 
• In my experience, thinking is way faster. Whenever I need to be quick with thinking of something, I think in images instead of words. My brain does not have to utter words and produce them using about 100 muscles. My brain only has to make the connection and send an electrical signal from one bit to the other.

 

2.3

• I do not often dream language. I dream in pictures, feelings, scents and sounds. Whenever I do dream language, it can be both in Dutch and in English depending on what my brain wants on that specific day. 
• I would imagine that blind people dream in language, feelings, sounds and scents and that deaf people dream in written language, feelings, scents and visuals.