Bilingual people

A few days ago I bought "Fry's English Delight" #8 to have some pleasure of listening to my favourite show. The topic of the last discussion was dedicated to bilingual people. I'd never known that there are two kinds of such people: so-called "early bilingual" and "late bilingual". Late bilingual are really rare, because most people have few opportunities to use two (or more) languages every day for communication and work. Usually bilingual people have a more flexible mind as they understand from their own experience that there are more than the only one way to express thoughts and feelings, that some facts or ideas might be described in completely different ways, thought initially they are the same. Once I asked a bilingual girl "What language do you think in your head?".She stared at me and had nothing to say. "I'm thinking the language I'm talking at the moment" she said. Now I can understand her as I had no need to think in Russian before the English talk talking in. That's because I'm that lucky one who has to communicate in two languages every day, sometimes I need English more than I need Russian as I work with our foreign branch offices. I noticed an interesting thing: these days I can easily explain something to my Malaysian colleague while I'm writing something to our Russian developer in Skype (in Russian, of course). I'm not saying that my English is perfect, it's just good enough to use it without "sentence-by-sentence" translation. Occasionally funny things happen, for example, I start talking or write writing and having two languages completely messed up. Usually it happens in the evenings after I have the especially difficult days.

So, my next goal is Portugues, even though I hardly use it these days.