Claude speaks my language. I’m not sure it thinks in it.
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一位用户讨论了他们使用Claude的经历，他们同时使用英语和西班牙语。用户指出，尽管Claude的西班牙语很好，但他们质疑Claude是否真正“用”西班牙语思考，或者仅仅是翻译其世界观。他们向其他非英语用户提问，是否也曾遇到过听起来自然但在文化上不符的建议，以及Claude是适应他们的文化，还是主要翻译其自身看待世界的方式。
I use Claude in both English and Spanish, and I’ve been thinking about something that has less to do with how good its Spanish is and more with what comes with the language.
Say I have a problem with my boss and ask Claude what to do. It might suggest sitting down with him, being direct about how I feel and talking through how we could improve the situation.
Nothing strange about that advice. But it also comes from a particular idea of how people should deal with conflict and authority. What works in an American workplace might feel awkward in Spain, and could be completely inappropriate in another culture.
That’s the part I hadn’t really thought about before. LLMs have learned from a huge amount of English-language content. Claude can answer me in very good Spanish, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the assumptions behind the answer are Spanish too.
And this goes beyond language sounding slightly translated. People ask Claude what they should say to their boss, how to handle an argument with their partner, whether someone’s behaviour is normal, how to negotiate something. Culture is all over those questions, even when we don’t explicitly mention it.
I’m not saying Claude literally thinks in English. I don’t think we can know that from its answers. But I do wonder how much of an English-speaking, and particularly American, way of looking at things gets carried into other languages without being obvious.
For those who use Claude outside English: do you notice this in your own language? Have you ever received advice that sounded completely natural but felt culturally off? And do you think Claude adapts to your culture, or mostly translates its way of looking at the world?