I can speak English but before I say
anything I have to make a sentence in my
native language translate that into
English and then say it I feel like I'm
not speaking fluently because of this
that is one of the most common
complaints I hear from my students so in
this lesson I am going to teach you
three exercises that will help you to
stop translating in your head these
exercises will make you think 100
percent in English and speak fluently
without hesitation so let's jump right
into it
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here is exercise number one make
sentences in your head this is the
number one fastest way to start thinking
in English throughout your day make
sentences about what is happening around
you for example let's say that you're
sitting on the bus and you're going
somewhere in your head you can start
talking in English I like the seat it's
nice and comfortable look at that couple
sitting over there what are they doing
they look very happy they're joking and
laughing about something anyway
let's look out the window oh what a
beautiful park I wish I could visit it
sometime
and so on you can do this in any
situation when you're at home when
you're bored at work or school when
you're waiting at the doctor's office
when you're walking in the park and so
on and it will train your brain to make
sentences in English now while you are
doing this if you start translating it's
okay don't get disappointed because as
you keep practicing you will collect
more and more sentences for everyday
situations and over time you will
translate less remember to do this
exercise many times every day make it a
habit to regularly make sentences in
your hand exercise number two is prepare
sentences for conversations for this
exercise think about a conversation that
you are going to have in the future and
come up with sentences that you can use
for example if there's going to be a
meeting in your workplace tomorrow what
would be some useful sentences well if
you're going to present an idea to your
colleagues you might say I strongly
believe this will help our sales aha
keep that in mind to use tomorrow maybe
you have a colleague let's say his name
is Teddy and he always interrupts you
while you talk if he does that tomorrow
you can say hold on Teddy let me finish
there's another sentence in this way for
upcoming conversations you can prepare a
lot of sentences and have them in your
mental store and you can even you can
even write them down to review later as
you do this exercise more and more you
will be able to use these sentences in
many future conversations automatically
without thinking too much so take time
to regularly prepare sentences for
conversations exercise number three is
recap your day do you know the meaning
of recap recap means to remember and
summarize something in this case your
day so this is an exercise you should do
at the end of the day maybe just before
you go to bed or you can even do this as
you're lying in bed before you go to
sleep
imagine that you're telling a friend
about your day in English you might say
today was a regular day for the most
part one interesting thing that happened
in college was that a friend of mine
told me she's got an internship
interview coming up in two days so I
helped her prepare for it and so on and
so forth you get the idea you can also
make sentences about how you felt about
the different things that happened you
can say what you expect to happen
tomorrow
etc aim to do this for about five to ten
minutes before you go to sleep what I
like about this exercise is that you can
do it at the same time every day which
means it's very easy to make this a
habit and so all this practice in making
sentences will help you to think in
English automatically okay those are my
top three exercises for learning to
think in English make sentences in your
head throughout the day prepare
sentences for conversations and recap
your day before you go to sleep as a
bonus tip there's one more powerful
exercise that you can use to build your
fluency and it's called Jam this is
short for just a minute and it's a
fantastic speaking exercise that you can
do by yourself
to improve your fluency if you want to
learn it I have a lesson just on this
exercise you will find the link in the
description so make sure to check it out
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