Name: Think in English | Here’s exactly how to stop translating in your head!
Uploaded: 2020-09-01T19:10:57.000Z
Duration: 15 min 12 s
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Building your skill to think in English so you can join the conversation with confidence,

If you feel like it takes too long to express yourself in English, or you feel nervous speaking English,

Thinking in English and getting your mind to go to English quickly is a skill you can build on.

In today's video, we're working with flash cards to focus on words. We're going to do nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

And we're going to build the English image association,

skipping your native language. There might be some words you don't know.

Great! Then you get to learn new vocabulary too.

As always, if you like this video or you learned something new,

please like and subscribe with notifications, it really helps.

In doing this, we want to use words you already know.

This is a skill where we're building the skill to think in English first,

building those pathways in your brain, so hopefully many of these words will be words that you already know.

Before you start the exercise, say to your brain: we're going to think only in English.

You'll see a prompt, and you'll think the word.

If you want to say it out loud, go ahead. If you don't know the word, don't worry,

we're going to go over everything at the end of the video.

First, you'll see a picture with different sections highlighted like this.

And when you see it, you'll think in your head: wing.

Then something else will be highlighted and each time you see a different highlight, think the English word.

If you don't know it, don't worry just wait for the next one.

And you'll have three seconds to come up with a verb to describe anything that's happening in the picture.

And you'll have three seconds to name an adjective.

Then at the end, we'll go over everything like this.

I'll suggest verbs and adjectives that you could have said,

but of course you may have come up with something totally different from what I say, and that's okay.

There are no wrong answers here if what you're saying describes anything that's happening in the picture.

Now if you saw that image, and you said something like drinking Coke.

Then that doesn't actually describe what's happening, but hey,

if your mind said that in English, that's something!

We're going to move pretty quickly. So just relax,

open up your mind, and let the English come in.

Remember, you want to direct your mind to go to the English word first.

You should know most of these words already, we're building the skill of recall.

We're going to do a bunch of pictures and then we'll go over all the words.

Okay we're halfway through, and I'm checking in on you.

clear it out, think English only, keep going.

It was less about naming something you see, and more about making a decision about what to say.

That's definitely a little bit more challenging.

Did you know this part of the car is called a grill?

I have a whole video that goes over vocabulary for the car. I'll link to it at the end of the video.

Notice here the D comes after an N before another consonant sound.

It's very common to drop that D sound and I did.

Laying. Chatting. Maybe you said laughing.

Again the D comes after an N, before a consonant,

I didn't say friendly, but there's no D, friendly.

Or maybe you said dirty, talking about the truck, old,

Maybe you said swim trunks, or just trunks, or maybe you said shorts.

Or maybe you hate being splashed, so the word you thought was: mean.

We call this kind of clothing, which you'll see a lot on doctors, nurses, dentists, and veterinarians.

There is a TV show in the US called Scrubs that ran in the 2000s.

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Think in English | Here’s exactly how to stop translating in your head!

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