>>2530Fluency means you can express any idea sufficiently well in the language you're using.
Thinking in a language is only possible if you are capable of doing such a thing.
>Some of those I would not even know how to say good morning in.You don't to know how to say "good morning", you need to be able to express the concept the words "good morning" describe.
For example, if you didn't know "Guten Morgen" you could still say something equivalent to it, like "Schönen Vormittag" or whatever, which while not the same thing, expresses the same idea.
>make an effort often to think in other languagesThat's the thing innit?
It shouldn't take effort, it should be, well, fluent, no?
>As just a note to all those of you who speak English well from the internet, those of you that I have met in person usually are very good but undoubtedly lacking in some vocabularyThis "in some vocabulary" construction seems very strange, I guess what I may be lacking in words, you lack in style.
Also, there is a lot more than the internet that mainly uses English, to be honest.