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今天給大家推送一篇英語學習的小竅門，Think in English and stop translating。 希望對您的英語學習有點幫助！
以下為音頻文本：
Hello ,everyone ,I want to talk about a small topic today .
When you talk to somebody or have to answer a question in English ,do you think about the answer in your native tongue ?Do you try to translate in English ?Do you get frustrated when you find out that this was just wasting your time ?
And it actually didn’t help you to learn English ,because your English would not get any better .If you think in your native language ,you need to translating your native tongue to English ,that will wasting your time and you can get stuck easily .
So go starting thinking in English .Do you think it sounds easier than done ?I don’t think so ,because I’m going to show you a few steps that will teach you to think in English .And that will definitely increase your English fluency in all the time .
Firstly ,you need to work out .I’m not talking about hitting the gym .I am talking about exercising your English language muscle .You might know at least minimum of two or three languages ? So let me just assume that you know Mandarin and Cantonese .Now ,what happened to your native language and the third language English ?The first two languages get spoken the most ,because you speak them with your parents ,with your friends ,with your colleagues ,and so on .So you are exercising the native language muscle in your brain .
But if you speak English only to your teachers in school or your colleagues in working office ,and just about a span of thirty minutes or one hour time .You can’t get fluency in English .So the idea to train your English muscle is to be used a lot more than you do .
I commend to you to buy a purely English dictionary ,it’s doesn’t translate into any other language .You will learn its meaning .And definitely this will help you to make a sentence too .This is essential .It means that you are going to get more exposure to English language ,because you’re not only learning a new English words ,but in your mind ,you get a chance to think about it on how and when you can use this word in the right manner .Now ,the more you indulge in that ,the more you’re working out the English muscles .That makes your English stronger .And it makes you think more in English language than in you native language .
And now the next thing ,while thinking in English that you have already started working out that English muscle ,Try thinking in English too .To do that ,you just need to come with scenarios that require you to think in a more responsible way .It means that your response should be in English .Take a piece of paper and imagine that you are at the reception desk of a hotel .Now if you want to book a room ,write down the words that you will use in relation to this topic .After having done that ,try to make sentence using these words and how would you use these words in your future conversation .English is based on anyone who believes that .If you work out on the scenarios and be prepared ,your English conversations will be so much fun .
Next is correcting yourself ,so important ,I think that when you are speaking in English , it is almost impossible for you not to make mistakes .We all do mistakes in learning a new language ,learning a new skill ,and other anything .But what’s the integral part of learning while you learn from your mistakes ?Only if these mistakes are corrected .So since you are going to learn English ,it is an important thing that you correct yourself .
Now ,how do you do that ?Why you’re practicing to think in English ?If you feel that you have not understood the way of what has to be used ,like the way a word has to be used in a sentence ,or if you feel that the word could be used in more than one or two ways ,then you can definitely try doing that make a list of all the possible mistakes that you have made .
Then you can show the list to probably your teacher or your friend ,or to someone who is really good at English .This person will help you to understand that what are the mistakes and how to use the language in the correct way .As you keep taking feedback from other people and implement it ,your fluency is definitely go to improve .And then ,in the next three to six months ,you will be surprised at your sentence construction and your vocabulary and your confidence in speaking English .
Next is practice speaking , since you have learned to think in English ,you have also worked on correcting yourself with some help .You must now implement what you have learned ,which means that it’s the right time to practice speaking in English with other people .Don’t be scared .Don’t be embarrassed to make a fool out of yourself .If you are shy to try out your new speaking skills in front of strangers or in front of people ,then try to find a partner ,someone whom you are comfortable with ,your friends ,your colleagues ,or someone who speaks good English .That is important ,even if that is your spouse or even if that is your child ,speaking with other people always exposes you to new words and the different ways of saying things .It also makes you aware of all the new words that people use on daily basis .
This kind of practice makes your conversations sound more real and more authentic as you’re actually talking to someone and not making up imaginary conversations .Moreover ,speaking to other people also makes you more confident .So I would really suggest that if you talk to people ,like have small talks with strangers or random people ,your fluency will be great .
So you can see that thinking and speaking in English is the best way to go about mastering this language .Many people have really accomplished this with a lot of hard work ,a lot of efforts ,and a little bit of confidence .Because if you are nervous ,things might be difficult for you .You won’t be able to face the challenges .
So please go through the points that we just talked about .
That is all for today’s text .Hope you Have a nice day .Thank you !
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