hi everyone welcome back to english with
max today I'm going to give you five
techniques that you can use to practice
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so thinking in English why is it
important to think in English well
basically because it can help you to
stop translating so much in your head
which can help all of your English
skills but especially your speaking
things will just be easier and faster if
you don't translate so much but doesn't
mean you have to be thinking in English
a hundred percent of the time that's
very unrealistic particularly if it's
not the only language you speak but the
more you practice the easier it becomes
I'd also like to say that unlike a lot
of teachers I'm not going to tell you to
only use an English monolingual
dictionary in my opinion it doesn't
really matter whether you use a
monolingual or bilingual dictionary but
I won't say any more about that because
I already made an entire video on it if
you'd like to watch that you can click
on the card above or the link in the
description so what are some things you
can do to help you think in English more
often the first thing you can do is
change the language of your electronic
devices and apps nowadays most people
look at their phones or computers
several times a day if you change the
language to English not only will you
possibly learn some new vocabulary but
English will become a bigger part of
your everyday life and remember I said
apps as well think about the apps that
you use on a daily basis
maybe it's Instagram or whatsapp or
Facebook change the language settings
the second thing you can do is write
lists in English if you're someone who
writes to-do lists you could start
writing them in English here is an
example of a to-do list by cat food
email Frank wash towels sort out
insurance call the police about the
neighbors I don't know everybody has
different things on their to-do lists if
you're not somebody who writes to-do
lists
you could write shopping lists in
English a shopping list is simply a list
of all the things you want to buy when
you go shopping the third technique is
to look around you and describe what you
see in English in your head you can do
this when you're sitting at home walking
in a park or sitting on a train it
doesn't matter if you're a beginner or
if you're feeling lazy or you don't have
much energy you can just use single
words for example lamp cat tree however
it is better if you can use full
sentences for example if you're on a
train you might think that's a nice tree
it has long branches and the leaves are
starting to change color
I wonder if Frank would like that tree
another technique is imagining sentences
that you might use in a conversation it
can also be a good idea to
you write the sentences down and
practice saying them so that they almost
become automatic try to predict the
types of conversations that you will
have for example if you've recently
arrived in an english-speaking country
and you're going to go to a party it's
likely that people will ask you
questions they might ask you where
you're from or how long you've been
there or what your plans are so you can
think of sentences like I'm from Spain
I've been here for two weeks I've come
to England because I really want to
improve my English I'm currently looking
for a job I know that might sound silly
or very simple but lots of people make
mistakes with simple sentences like that
particularly if they're feeling a bit
shy the final technique is something you
can do at the end of the day before you
go to bed think of all the things that
you did that day but think about them in
English you can also write them down if
you want you can either write full
sentences or short phrases it's up to
you if you think that will take too much
time a nice alternative is thinking
about all the positive things from that
day and writing them down so anything
that made you happy or that you enjoyed
this is actually something that life
coaches and motivational speakers often
recommend not only might that put you in
a better mood but we are also more
likely to do things if it seems like
less work I remember one time when I was
getting a bit lazy about my exercise I
found it quite effective to say to
myself you only need to go for 20
minutes because if I said to myself you
should go for
40 minute run I often didn't go running
at all however if I had in my mind you
only need to go for 20 minutes I was
more likely to do it and often I ended
up running for half an hour or 40
minutes anyway I think the lesson is
clear if you set yourself short Pleasant
tasks you're more likely to do them I
hope you find some of these techniques
helpful let me know in the comments if
you already do some of these things or
if you use other techniques to practice
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