Hello Michelle. How are you today? Hi Aubrey. I'm good. I'm good. Aubrey, what do you think

is the best way to teach your brain to stop translating from your first language? Oh,

this is such a good question and we have students ask us this a lot and it's to start

thinking in English or for me thinking in Spanish, thinking in French. any language you're learning,

you need to think in that language instead of first thinking it in your first language and then

translating it into your second language. But the trick is how do we do that? What do we need to do

in order to start thinking in English? And that is what we are diving into today. I'm excited. Yes.

And that's because we have a wonderful listener question um from it looks like it's from uh oh

sorry I scrolled JB. Yes. We apologize if we are not pronouncing your name correctly. Hopefully we

are. Um, do you want to read the question for us, Michelle? Sure. This question comes to us

from YouTube. So, it says, "Hello, Lindsay and Michelle. I love your podcasts a lot,

and they are not they not only accompany me along the way to classes, but also really teach me many

things." A big thanks. Thank you. I love that much. You are so glad. Thank you for letting us

know. Yes. It says, "But I find it challenging to speak English and connect with other people

in an unnatural and spontaneous way. I mean, I'm always having to prepare for a long time to speak.

Could you please share some suggestions?" Thank you so much. Have a nice day. Thank

you so much. This is a really great questions question. I mean, this is one of the biggest

issues ESL speakers face in English and it's a huge part of connection. Exactly. Because when

you're speaking spontaneously, you're not just talking. You are reacting to the other person or

people if it's a group, expressing yourself, joking, keeping the conversation alive and

building that connection. That's a lot to think about. And constantly stopping to form sentences

or think about what you want to say can make all of that very difficult. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So,

I mean, speaking spontaneously is really tricky, Aubrey. I mean, it's all about what's going on

in your brain. And if you're translating, for example, from your first language, how quickly

you can think of the words that you need. So, what happens is you're translating and this ultimately

slows you down. And not only that, we talk about this a lot on the podcast. It slows you down and

it causes errors that you wouldn't make if you are instead observing English and thinking in English.

Because when we translate between languages, the grammar is always different. The vocabulary is

always different and we make these mistakes when we're expecting it to work differently

in our first language and in English and it often does not. Yeah, exactly. So today we are going to

give you tips on how to think in English. Right. So this can speed up the process and you're going

to start to remember vocab faster. Grammar becomes more automatic. Um and just you're you're going to

loosen up, I think. So guys, before we talk about these tips, make sure you've hit the follow button

or subscribe wherever you are listening to the All Ears English podcast so you never miss anything

from us. Yes. So let's dive in. How do we start thinking in English? That's the question. We

are giving you three amazing tips today with some good details, but also give yourself some grace.

This takes time and consistent practice, but you can speed up the process with some really good

tricks. Yeah, I love these. So, the first trick, guys, is to narrate your activities in English.

This sounds it it I'm, you know, I'm sure some listeners are hearing this and they're thinking