How to THINK in English | No More Translating in Your Head! — Transcript

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1. 0:00if you're translating in your head then
2. 0:02you know that that's a frustrating way
3. 0:05to speak english but the good news is
4. 0:07there are concrete things you can do to
5. 0:09practice to stop translating in your
6. 0:12head and start thinking in english in
7. 0:15this video we're going to give you tips
8. 0:17and strategies to start thinking in
9. 0:19english
10. 0:20stop translating in your head and
11. 0:22increase fluency speaking english and
12. 0:25what a better way to start 2020 than
13. 0:28with this goal
14. 0:36first i want you to name one reason why
15. 0:39you want to start thinking in english
16. 0:43i want to learn to think in english so i
17. 0:45can easily participate in conversation
18. 0:48whatever your reason is i know it's a
19. 0:51good one and i think in 2020 you can
20. 0:53make that happen
21. 0:54the first tip is to start simple and
22. 0:57name objects around you in english
23. 1:00i remember when i was learning german
24. 1:02and i was doing this i had to learn the
25. 1:04article as well deya di das
26. 1:08their computer
27. 1:10we don't have that in english but it
28. 1:12doesn't hurt to really focus on the
29. 1:14pronunciation as you're thinking of
30. 1:16simple objects in fact that's why i
31. 1:19started my youtube channel and even my
32. 1:21academy when i was learning german
33. 1:23french and italian as an opera student i
34. 1:25couldn't find any resources that focused
35. 1:28enough on pronunciation
36. 1:30and i knew that to be effective i needed
37. 1:33the right pronunciation right from the
38. 1:35beginning so i created my youtube
39. 1:37channel and my academy to put
40. 1:39pronunciation
41. 1:40forward so take a moment as you're
42. 1:42naming objects to think about
43. 1:44pronunciation
44. 1:47closet
45. 1:50box
46. 1:52million subscriber button cool
47. 1:56globe
48. 1:59window
49. 2:01and if you're not sure about the
50. 2:02pronunciation listen to some native
51. 2:04speakers you can use an online
52. 2:07dictionary also uglish is a great
53. 2:10resource for this this record is
54. 2:12replicated on every computer that uses
55. 2:15the network computer generated movies
56. 2:18are really mainstream today something
57. 2:20that we couldn't possibly do with our
58. 2:21classical computer they want him to be
59. 2:23able to distinguish you know the
60. 2:25telephone from the computer whatever
61. 2:26they did with him
62. 2:28computer computer they're all saying
63. 2:31that with a flap computer
64. 2:35a flap instead of
65. 2:37a t sound
66. 2:39computer
67. 2:40computer middle syllable stress if you
68. 2:43can add this step of focusing on the
69. 2:45pronunciation and listening to native
70. 2:47speakers awesome
71. 2:49if not if you only have 15 seconds and
72. 2:51you're naming as many objects as you can
73. 2:54that's okay too
74. 2:56so that's step one and it's simple take
75. 2:59a moment look around you and name all of
76. 3:02the objects that you can in english
77. 3:04if you can do that very easily then you
78. 3:06can move on but if that's a challenge
79. 3:08for you spend some time on object naming
80. 3:12every time you're in a new room a new
81. 3:14environment take a few seconds to do it
82. 3:17note words you don't know look them up
83. 3:20learn them the context will help you
84. 3:23remember them
85. 3:24the next step is to think in simple
86. 3:26sentences
87. 3:28stop right now and think of the
88. 3:30beginning of a sentence i'm
89. 3:34i'm hungry i'm tired i'm working
90. 3:37do it
91. 3:38in english i'll wait a few seconds
92. 3:40you're starting with i'm
93. 3:47now look around you
94. 3:49what can you say about anything in your
95. 3:51environment
96. 3:53this chair is comfy
97. 3:55the drawer is open
98. 3:58my desk is messy
99. 4:01that one's easy because it's almost
100. 4:03always true
101. 4:05if there's something you can't describe
102. 4:06look up the words you need in a
103. 4:08dictionary memorize it memorize that
104. 4:10phrase learning in context like this
105. 4:14will help
106. 4:15speaking of dictionaries see if you can
107. 4:17do this
108. 4:18get an english only dictionary rather
109. 4:20than a translating dictionary between
110. 4:23english and your native language
111. 4:25if you come across the word in english
112. 4:26that you don't know use the english only
113. 4:28dictionary a learner's dictionary can
114. 4:31you see what we're doing here we're
115. 4:33building your mind to work in english
116. 4:35mode rather than translation mode there
117. 4:38is a thing called a learner's dictionary
118. 4:40and it describes every word in english
119. 4:43in simple words and terms try it
120. 4:47miriam webster has one
121. 4:49oxford cambridge
122. 4:51and if you have to learn and understand
123. 4:53a word by reading in english by studying
124. 4:56what it means in english then you'll
125. 4:58know it as an english word not as a
126. 5:01translation of your own language
127. 5:04so you've named single words and you've
128. 5:06made simple sentences the next step is
129. 5:09have small conversations with yourself
130. 5:11in english
131. 5:13with yourself
132. 5:14yes you don't feel pressured to speak
133. 5:16quickly to come up with the next thing
134. 5:19you can keep the pace slow relaxed i
135. 5:22absolutely did this when learning
136. 5:24spanish in fact i remember a car trip
137. 5:27that i did by myself from sarasota to
138. 5:29gainesville where the whole time i spoke
139. 5:32to myself in spanish
140. 5:34if this is hard for you stop and give up
141. 5:37no it will get better and easier with
142. 5:40practice do it every day set aside two
143. 5:43minutes every day to have a simple
144. 5:45conversation with yourself give yourself
145. 5:4830 days do this every day for 30 days
146. 5:51don't take a day off if you have five
147. 5:54minutes one day do it for five minutes a
148. 5:56whole conversation as simple as it needs
149. 5:58to be in english
150. 6:00in 30 days you'll see
151. 6:02wow i did improve this is worth my time
152. 6:06and then rededicate 30 more days
153. 6:10once you're able to do this i think
154. 6:12you're able to do step four which is
155. 6:14really exciting
156. 6:16change at least one of your everyday
157. 6:18life things to english
158. 6:21everyday life things what's that
159. 6:24switch your calendar to english
160. 6:26use the english months and days of the
161. 6:29week and write what you're going to be
162. 6:30doing in english
163. 6:32or do you do to-do lists try it in
164. 6:35english a grocery list or change your
165. 6:38facebook settings so that your language
166. 6:40is in english everything you see you've
167. 6:43got a friend request and so on will be
168. 6:45in english
169. 6:46maybe try internet searches in english
170. 6:49or read an english newspaper or listen
171. 6:51to news in english do you write a
172. 6:54journal try writing it in english yes i
173. 6:56love this take one thing every day and
174. 7:00do it in english switch your brain
175. 7:03every morning when you wake up before
176. 7:04you get out of bed take two minutes to
177. 7:07think about your day in english
178. 7:09here's another idea of an everyday thing
179. 7:12you can do in english take one thing
180. 7:14like getting dressed
181. 7:16making breakfast getting from your car
182. 7:18to your desk cleaning up
183. 7:20as you're doing it in your head
184. 7:23narrate in english
185. 7:25laundry day
186. 7:27that's light that should go
187. 7:28there
188. 7:30let's see does this need to be sprayed
189. 7:32for stains yeah
190. 7:35better spray it
191. 7:36all right let's load up the washing
192. 7:38machine
193. 7:39[Music]
194. 7:43oh that's too light that should go there
195. 7:45[Music]
196. 7:48okay
197. 7:49shove it all in
198. 7:51[Music]
199. 7:53and let's get some soap where is that
200. 7:56here it is
201. 7:57put it in there
202. 7:59close the door press start
203. 8:02there we go
204. 8:03and here's another one i love
205. 8:05learn how to do one thing in english it
206. 8:08can be really small like how to poach an
207. 8:10egg
208. 8:11research it and learn about it in
209. 8:12english only
210. 8:14watch only english videos and read only
211. 8:16english instructions or maybe it's
212. 8:19something bigger a bigger project like
213. 8:21how to knit or how to draw take an
214. 8:24online course in english only on that
215. 8:26topic pick something you're dying to
216. 8:29know how to do anyway this will make it
217. 8:31a super enjoyable lesson
218. 8:34the next step is something you're
219. 8:36actually going to want to be doing all
220. 8:37along with all the steps and that's
221. 8:41keep track so you're doing it every day
222. 8:46once you choose that you want to think
223. 8:47in english and stop translating in your
224. 8:50head write down every day what you do
225. 8:53and of course do this in english it
226. 8:55could look like this
227. 8:57today i named everything around me that
228. 8:59i could think of in english two
229. 9:00different times
230. 9:02i watched a three minute news story in
231. 9:05english
232. 9:06just having a place to write it down can
233. 9:08motivate you to do it
234. 9:10and the last thing is something you can
235. 9:12do every night after you lay down for
236. 9:15bed but before you fall asleep
237. 9:17recap your day in english
238. 9:20you're taking advantage of this
239. 9:22opportunity that you'll have every day
240. 9:24no matter where you are or what your day
241. 9:27was like no one i know falls asleep the
242. 9:30moment their head hits the pillow
243. 9:32what a lovely day that was i got to meet
244. 9:35my mom for lunch
245. 9:37go for a walk in the afternoon
246. 9:39and i even had time to watch a movie
247. 9:41after i put the kids down to bed
248. 9:44and who knows by putting your mind in
249. 9:47english mode just before bed maybe
250. 9:49you're even setting yourself up to dream
251. 9:52in english continuing your practice
252. 9:54the brain does amazing things with what
253. 9:57it's learned that day while you sleep
254. 10:00what have you done to build a consistent
255. 10:03english practice to help you start to
256. 10:05think in english put it in the comments
257. 10:07so others can learn from your best tips
258. 10:10which of these ideas is new to you or
259. 10:12which are you most excited about let me
260. 10:15know
261. 10:16the next video i want you to watch is
262. 10:18one with tips on increasing your
263. 10:19vocabulary this can help with naming
264. 10:22objects and of course starting to have
265. 10:24those conversations with yourself in
266. 10:26your head please don't forget to
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268. 10:31videos on speaking english every tuesday
269. 10:33that's it and thanks so much for using
270. 10:36rachel's english