acapnotic, Did I mention "replace"? I am sorry if it is so. I meant "to think over/interpret the heard/read word or phrase" of course.
acapnotic пишет: ↑26 дек 2019, 13:41
I either understand or not.
How could you know that you understand? Maybe you just say "I don't want to think over this, that is why I'd better pretend to understand it"
Until you make a logical chain of what you heard/read, how can you see the logic in what you heard/read? But for this you need to think. You can understand on the spot only what you have already known before. In that case I can completely agree that you could understand without thinking over/interpreting the text.
acapnotic пишет: ↑26 дек 2019, 13:41
Maybe I will correct the meaning attached by me earlier to the word. But this process is a separate one.
Again, how can you possibly know that you need to correct the meaning if you didn't think over it but just told yourself that you "understand without thinking in either language"?
Strange enough to hear this. It is generally known that people try to interpret anything new that they hear/read, or else they would just omit it whether they think that they could understand it or not understand.