hello everyone and welcome back to
english with Lucy I probably look a
little bit different today and that is
because I think I live in the hottest
flat in England or at least in Cambridge
oh my gosh
right so it's around 27 28 degrees
outside which for England is really
really hot but inside my flat
it's like a damn rain forest it's humid
muggy that's a really good word muggy at
when it's like heavy hot sticky air
humidity and I have a whole wall of
windows which is great because it lets
in loads of light but it also
contributes to a greenhouse effect in my
flat and I'm absolutely boiling so I
couldn't bring myself to do my hair
cause it would just I'd put it in and
then it would fall out again and also no
turtlenecks today we've got my coca-cola
t-shirt instead which not sponsored wish
it was sponsored imagine having
coca-cola sponsor you awesome so today
it's a really really really important
video today I'm going to give you some
advice on how to stop translating into
your native language because a lot of
people have this problem I've asked lots
of English learners and learners of
other languages and they say I would be
able to speak fluently if I could stop
translating now most of you probably
already know this if you're new to this
channel then I speak fluent Spanish and
I'm actively learning Italian and I
remember at the beginning of my Spanish
learning journey I really found it hard
not to translate and translating between
English and Spanish can be really really
difficult and annoying because the word
order is so different
I'm now learning Italian actively and
I'm managing to do so without
translating into Spanish or English so
speaking from my own experience as a
language learner and speaking from my
experience as an English language
teacher I'm going to give you some
advice and hopefully help you get over
this massive massive hurdle that's
preventing you from improving firstly
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with the video my god it is so hot I bet
all of you are in your country actually
let's do something fun tell me where you
live and what temperature is where you
are right now because I bet some of you
are in like 40 degree heat I know my
friends in Seville are really suffering
with the heat 90 over 27 degrees dying
I'm very sensitive okay so I've been
thinking about this question for a long
time and I have actually made some notes
on my phone just because I want to get
it in the right order for you so bear
with me so how to avoid translating into
a native language well the first tip I
can give you and this will not apply to
everyone is don't start in the first
place if you were a like a beginner
level of English some translation is
inevitable I mean you're going to do it
we learn in school is ammonia yellow
naka orange we learn through translation
however link back to when you were a
baby how did you acquire your first ever
language your mother tongue you learn
through observing seeing watching
hearing smelling tasting watching
actions you didn't learn through
translation because you have nothing to
base your translation on because you had
no mother tongue so babies are capable
of learning a language without any other
language as reference yet we find it
incredibly difficult so what you need to
think is simplification babies start
small and then over years and years and
years they build their vocabulary and
you need to apply this to yourself as
well it's much more effective to learn
vocabulary by observing and taking
things in than it is to just look at
something in dictionary and that brings
me on to my next point
oh my god oh so hot
and that brings me on to my next point
which is grab your bilingual dictionary
and rub it out of the window don't do
that okay it might land on somebody's
head just place it to one side very
carefully and then pick up your
monolingual dictionary is that the word
for it and then pick up the dictionary
in the language that you are learning in
many of your cases it will be English
and start letting the language define
itself so it words like nouns and verbs
it can be a little difficult to
understand but that's where you need to
learn through observation when you're
looking at adjectives adverbs and other
things like that try to understand the
definition in that same language first
because what you're going to be doing is
training yourself to think in the
language that you're learning which
brings me on to my third point oh my god
what is beautifully well planned out
video this is so
my next two points are about sinking and
speaking to yourself in that language
now I actually recommend that you start
by speaking out loud to yourself in the
other language I think I mentioned that
in a video about conversation improve
your conversation and communication if
you're interested in that then you can
watch that video just up there and
however speaking to yourself in the
other language is a really really key
factor in learning to think in the
language so for example with Spanish
I'll be driving and I'll describe the
movements that I'm going to be making
with the car so I'll be like cuando
viene una pierna
we're here at another it's a cover on
get the language is not cleanly boy
anyway that is what I do or I'll be
pottering around my kitchen cooking and
talking to myself about what I'm doing
and you will start to notice your own
errors especially when you hear yourself
speaking out loud once you're
comfortable speaking out loud to
yourself in private in that additional
language move on to starting to think
now I think speaking should come before
thinking but that's just my opinion
everybody learns in different ways I
personally think it's easier to spot
errors and get comfortable when you're
speaking out loud now speaking out loud
you should do in private but the
thinking I want you to do it everywhere
on the bus seeing what goes past it can
relate to the video I made on how to
learn and remember vocabulary which you
can watch up here it's a useful method
where you observe everything around you
and you check to see if you know it in
your chosen language the full
explanation is in the video and some
people have found that really really
useful I know I found it useful see if
you can apply using a monolingual
dictionary to that video think I
recommend using a bilingual one see if
you can do it with an English dictionary
yeah so by thinking in English and I'm
talking about you know describing people
if you see someone walking think to
yourself that man is walking
is walking down the street or just going
through your motions I am getting off
the bus I am going to go to the shops in
your head you're just starting to
immerse yourself in the language ah that
beautiful word immerse to immerse
yourself brings me on to point number
five which is immersion and that's
actually one of my favorite words I know
I have a lot of favorite word's
but immersion immersion that's nice
that's a nice work so immersion is
something that you should be doing
throughout your learning experience and
it's something you can do lost
multitasking which is one of my favorite
things so when I'm doing something that
doesn't require a hundred percent
concentration like cooking or cleaning I
always have something on in the
background
cleaning cooking washing the car
gardening whatever whatever any task
that allows you to listen to something
else at the same time as doing something
else
have something on in that language in
the background I know I'm saying it as
if it's revolutionary but really don't
forget to do it I know you couldn't you
can waste so much time and miss out on
so much learning by having it on in the
background and not even listening you
will be getting used to pronunciation
and accents by listening and
concentrating on what they're saying you
will be familiarizing yourself with
certain grammar Leck sites different
vocabularies but also you will notice
where you are lacking so if you listen
to a radio program about I will say
photography so if you listen to a radio
program about politics for example my
last point is make it daily focus on
frequency and consistency okay I always
say to my students at 20 minutes a day
of high quality not even studying just
language acquisition
sometimes surprised myself of the words
that come out of my mouth 20 minutes a
day of high quality English time there
we are that sounds more like something
Luther would say and is much much much
more valuable than than 140 minutes all
in one day so make the general immersion
and the sinking and the speaking to
yourself something that you do
throughout your day make it part of your
routine make it make it become automatic
to you you know I sometimes now go you
know go for an hour thinking in Spanish
or you know thinking out loud in my head
in Spanish and then I realize and I go
God you know I just said something and
I've just been speaking in Spanish the
whole time and it's because I do it so
often it becomes automatic
then the little tweaks and then it will
kind of self-help part that you're doing
at the end which is you know searching
definitions for words working on the
grammar that you've identified that
you're lacking in or attempting to find
your vocabulary that should be short and
it should be daily right guys other ways
I want to know your opinion and you guys
are a bunch of extremely intelligent
lines and I love I love hearing your
recommendations and I apply them to my
daily life as well so I'd love to know
something that helps you stop
translating into your native language
and I'm sure you've got lot to share in
my other video where it asks you how
many languages you speak some of you
speak like seven languages which is
unbelievable and really awesome really
impressive honored to have a group of
students like you guys yes oh please
share your recommendations and your
experience in the comments below and
also constructive criticism is
completely welcome so if you don't agree
with something I say say it say it in a
nice way because I like everyone to be
respectful here but I'm not the goddess
of English what I say doesn't go but I
really do hope that I help you
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