why should you stop using translation to learn English especially if you are a pre-intermediate
or an intermediate English speaker that's what we're gonna find out and I’m gonna give you three
reasons why coming up hey student I am Teacher Prix and I’m going to help you talk to anyone
anywhere anytime in English now guys right off the bat the first thing you need to understand
is you're not a beginner anymore so the more translation you use at this moment if you are
a pre-intermediate or an intermediate English speaker the more slowly you'll
be going on your journey to fluency and not just that there may be specific problems
that will happen to your English if you keep using a translation based practice okay now
the first reason why you should stop using translation regularly as the means of learning
new information in English because that's what I’m talking about okay you will be
getting stuck in conversations much more often than you can imagine what do I mean by that
if you're constantly using your native language to understand English guess what is going to happen
when you are in front of a person and you need to speak English you're going to follow the
same process because all your mechanisms all your preparation was done in your language think about
what you do if you watch a video and then you read everything you understood in your native language
well you're gonna do that when you are having a conversation with someone you won't be able
to think independently and come up with answers more quickly because all your process involves
your native language much more than English that's why I said it'll slow you down you will go
on your journey to fluency but much more slowly but it doesn't stop there as time goes by you will
begin to feel afraid of speaking you will begin to feel bad about your ability to speak because
you spend so much time building phrases in your mind that you feel like there's a problem with you
oh I can't speak English because I need to spend so much time thinking in my language when
in reality the problem is not in yourself like oh there's something wrong with me no the problem is
in your process you have so much connection with your language every time you sit down to study
you're making associations you translate a phrase you translate a new verb you translate a new
expression you're always translating that you're always making associations writing explanations
in your language that guess what that's the process you're creating that's the result you're
going to get that's why so many students feel stuck in conversations because they don't work
on techniques to stay in the English language and avoid translation I’ve talked about this before
and I’m gonna repeat it again because I feel it's very important when I say eliminate translation
I’m not going to be a hypocrite there will be moments when you're going to translate a few
things but occasional moments and I even have other videos here on my channel where I teach
you how to study English in English how to study vocabulary how to study new words expressions
grammar and remove the translation from your life that's what I’m talking about so reason number one
is very serious do you get stuck in conversations that's the question that's the question of the day
do you get stuck in conversations #yes #no tell me in the comments okay reason number two
you won't be learning how to use the word in English ah this is connected with tip number
one in most cases students get stuck because they don't know how to use a word they are thinking and
thinking and thinking in their native language and the words that come they don't necessarily know
how to use and this doesn't happen only to words but grammar structure if we're constantly writing
explanations in our language that's what we get so even though let's think of a word an individual
word you're learning the translation of that word you're not learning how to use that word because
you're feeding your brain information in your native language and as a pre-intermediate speaker
or an intermediate speaker you will be getting in contact with more complex
words phrases longer phrases expressions proverbs interesting combination of words collocations
so translation will remove will eliminate the contextualization so even though you are
apparently learning new words new expressions you're not giving them context and that is very
complicated for pre-intermediate speakers they check a bunch of words but they don't know how
to use them and this will block your English speaking so you have a lot of information but
you don't know how to use it I guess that this is the biggest problem in our society nowadays
not just with English but with everything in life look at the internet there's a lot of information
but knowing how to use that information in your favor is the biggest challenge in my opinion is
the biggest challenge so watch out for that with my students in my Academy they have information
they have a lot of information but they have the directions what to do what not to do
they have explanations instead of translation all the environment in my program is immersed
in the English language so are you immersed in the English language or do you constantly
go back and forth with the translation so that is something for you to think about oh but teacher I
don't know how to uh to study the words in English do you have any recommendation yes I will leave
a video recommendation here you know you can tap after this video wait for it to be over
then I give you a step by step of how to study a word in English not in your native language okay
now tip number three is very important but before I tell you tip number three
if possible subscribe to my channel every week I bring different kinds of English lessons
but here we go reason number three the reason why you should stop using translation is
doing translation at this level will limit your ability to express yourself and even though you
may be thinking oh it's very similar get stuck in conversations but why do you get stuck in
conversations because I’m translating but what does translation do to your learning process it
limits you because students don't understand this but part of your vocabulary part of your ability
to talk will come from the contact you have with the English language explanations examples ideas
but if you always do that in your language you get an explanation you get it in your language
you watch an example you get the translation it's not always a hundred percent in English
it is always translated some way you are limiting your ability to express yourself and and here I
go back to the environment are you immersed in the language because a lot of your grammar and
comprehension will come from interacting with the grammar not just doing grammar exercises that's
not how it works what is your contact with English like are you watching more videos in your language
teaching English or even now as you're watching this lesson are you taking notes in English or in
your language are you translating things to your language or are you writing down ideas in English
this is very important your vocabulary will come from this kind of experience if that experience
is in your language or is constantly translated you will be very limited when you have to speak
because all of your work revolves around your native language not English so guys at the end
of the day these three reasons are super connected you get stuck it limits your understanding of a
new word because you don't understand context sometimes there are some cultural expressions
we can't translate we can understand and because you never practice that you limit your ability
to express yourself it's not that you just get stuck because you don't know what to say but
it's because you never practiced your ability to express yourself many times I ask some difficult
questions to my students in my program and I know they will have trouble answering because I am
exercising their ability to express their opinion and expressing opinion can be very difficult
if you constantly learn by translation if you never interact with the language 100% and as
the title of this video says you're not a beginner you're a pre-intermediate or intermediate speaker
so if you want to take your English to the next level if you want to speak clearly understand
people in English and speak with confidence you gotta change that part of your learning process
I hope you enjoyed this video other than that I’ll see you next time bye