Think Directly in English - Practical Tips to Train Your Brain to Stop Translating Every Time

by TurcoEspanol

One problem that I used to struggle with

and the problem was that I had to

translate too much to speak even a single

proper long sentence in English and this I

feel is a common problem with almost everybody.

People often come up to me and ask

me, Ma'am, I want to speak proper

fluent English but I just cannot do it.

How do I do it?

So these are a few tips that I

always give them.

See, I cannot start talking about and deliver

a whole one hour lecture when somebody asks

me that, right?

I have to finish it off in five

minutes or so, so that the person has

gotten an answer, they have found something in

that conversation from me and at the same

time, I do not end up spending one

hour every time somebody asks me that question

because this question comes up very, very often,

very often to me.

One thing that I often tell them is

that get over this problem of translation in

your head because this is slowing you down.

It is taking a hit on your confidence

because when you try to translate from your

mother tongue into English, what you do is

that you assess every word in your head

and every single word tries to find their

place in English language and then you put

together those words to construct a sentence and

then you speak.

So then the process is so lengthy that

you cannot expect yourself to be fluent if

you're doing this all the time.

So what do we do?

How do we get over this problem?

What is that one way that I can