Your comment seems rather derogatory - some of the immigrants I am talking about are lawyers, doctors etc. NOT poor kids with "street language"!!!

When I learned German, I didn´t learn "street language" (there are a million dialects in Germany) ... I learned the proper Grammar in school! It did, however, help alot that I was an English major in College and do know my own language very well.

Last week I met a Turkish girl at ODTÜ in Ankara who was born and raised in the Netherlands and moved back to Turkey when she was 17. When she started speaking in Dutch to me, I realized I preferred to answer in Turkish and did so. Impossible? I may not dream flawless, but I definitely dream in fluent Turkish!

Apperantly Angelina Jolie has never dropped in your dreams I can easily speak english in my dreams. what your teacher says is absolutely wrong.

Actually, when I first started dreaming in Turkish, I didn´t speak much Turkish yet because I was too shy. However, the Turkish I spoke in my dreams was much more fluent than in real life since there were no inhibitions holding me back from speaking freely what I knew in the back of my mind.

Why do you believe one cannot dream in any language but its native one?

There´s enough practical proof that it´s simply not true that you can only dream or think in your native language. I´m a native Dutchy but I also dream and think in English. It´s sometimes hard to make the switch. When I spend a long time talking in English, I´m still thinking in English when I start a Dutch conversation and it all comes out weird

we can think in other languages if we was studying it when we are childern in my country we was learning English in age of 3 like our native language .

so we can think and dream in English like our native language

I didn´t take German until I was in High School, then in college I took German as a second language for my English Degree and even with that small amount of German,  I feel like I think in German just as well as I speak it...I don´t see the problem.

Well, that is one school of thought. There is the language that has no boundries....all thoughts are complete, later they are given words.

Language is not only words, it is body language, facial expression, tone of voice. Words can actually confuse matters or clarify them. Too often they are used to cloud the issues. We have seen how lawyers can use words?

I really don´t think all dreams actually use words....

To be bound by only one language is sad indeed.  Learning new languages expands our being. When we have the words to express our thoughts and feelings with more precision it helps actualize things.

Very well put!!

I don´t feel like I ever had a "native" language!  We spoke 2 languages in my house and when I started going to school, I used a totally different language!   I guess that means I have silent dreams (like old silent movies) and that I am incapable of thinking!