How to Stop Translating in Your Head

A common questions I hear from English learners is, "How do I stop translating in my head?" It's a great question. I understand the frustration. You're doing all this hard work to learn English and your brain still wants to translate everything you hear, or translate before you speak. It would be so nice if you could just think in English and not be slowed down by translating in your mind all the time.

I think these tips will help a lot. In this English lesson I'll go over 7 techniques that you can use to help avoid translating in your head, and to train your brain to stop doing it. You'll learn how to adjust some of your current learning strategies so that you reduce the amount of time you spend translating and spend more time communicating efficiently!

In this English lesson you'll learn about Overloading, Oversaturating, Forced Description, Shadowing, Visualization, Using An English Only Dictionary, and Repetition.

I hope you enjoyed this English lesson about how to stop translating in you mind and I hope it will help you a lot on your English learning journey! I hope it will also help you to start to think in English!

Have a great day!

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[santiagovenegasdiaz]

Very good tips to think in English and stop translating in your mind. Thank a a lot!!

[oitnbtu]

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[diegoalvesgyn]

Thank you for share this lesson. It's very important to learn English!

[leohuang]

I've been working as a translator for many years and just moved to Canada. I can traslate fast and smoothly but it is so weiiirdo that I still struggle to talk fluently and confidently in everyday life in this English-speaking country. My translator mind is definetely a huge barrier.. This video is really helpful! Thank you Bob.

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I have to say that you are a real English teacher, thank you so much, Bob!

[mohamedo.elkhawalka]

very very useful so basically u are trying to learn English the same way u learnt your first language in the first place as u trying to teach ur child make sense and that answers the question how i learnt my language thanks .

[violet-bdvi]

I really did almost all of these without me realizing that I was doing so, and that helped me to speak English fast in an Arabic country where no body speaks it and in less than two years.
Thanks so much..

[mychudungco]

This is the right topic for English learners, especially for adults who always feel struggling with a new language like English. Your tips may help me a lot. Thanks for sharing your experience

[JForYou]

For less than one month I watched your videos and now slowly but surely I can understand the sentence without translating them into my language. I always read the subtitle while listening to you speaking in the videos. It’s very helpful. Thank you my best teacher Bob. 🙏☺️

[clsr__]

Its Fun when u Put something in mind like a Travel, and u Have a desire to learn for dont be necessary pass dificulties in another country

[elfiesbeats]

This is a real big problem for our mind. Thanks for the helpful video! Go thinking in English.

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Thanks Bob for your tips, it's helped me

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Thank you so much, in my point of view this video is very helpful for English learners like me

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Thanks Mr Bob. Your voice is so warm and I can understand 70% to 80% content of this video without translating. Your videos helps me a lot. I will follow your videos in the future to learn more and more.

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I almost watch your entire videos which is great to learn common conversation in Canada. I learned a lot. Thanks Bob!