Name: How To Think In English | Advice From Personal Experience
Uploaded: 2018-01-27T10:58:23.000Z
Duration: 4 min 38 s
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Hey guys what's up Stefanie the English
coach here from englishfulltime.com

and in this video we are going to talk
about how to think in English now when I

was in college and I was studying
Spanish and I did you know all of my

classes in Spanish and I had professors
that were native Spanish speakers one of

my professors would always say you just
need to think in Spanish and that would

actually piss me off
because I was like I would do it if I

knew how or if it was would come natural
to me but the thing is it didn't it's

like I would have to force myself to
think in Spanish and sometimes I would

have to translate in my head you know
because I didn't have as much experience

speaking the language and she would just
make me and the whole class feel really

bad because she would just say you just
have to force yourself to think in

Spanish and I was like that's not what I
want I want to be able to think in

Spanish the way that I think in English
I don't want to have to plan what I'm

going to say before I say it I want to
just be able to open my mouth and speak

Spanish right that's what I wanted well
I learned from experience that that only

comes after you've been exposed to
enough of the language for a long time

okay
so I didn't start thinking in Spanish

and when you think in the language in a
foreign language that's basically when

you're like fluent in that language I
don't mean when you force yourself to

think in a language I mean when you can
think in a language as naturally as you

think in your native language and you
don't lack expressions you don't lack

vocabulary you can just like I can just
sit here and think in Spanish if I want

I can just talk in Spanish if I want I'm
fluent in Spanish right that doesn't

come right away it comes with time and
you can't force yourself to think in a

language and think that that is enough
that that is what will get you fluent in

the language what you need is enough
exposure to the language so you want to

know how to think in English well you're
going to achieve that by speaking in

English regularly with other people by
surrounding yourself with English by

immersing yourself in English and that
is how you're going to be able to think

in English
it'll come with time and it comes

gradually so you're not going to realize
it at first because you're learning

you're growing you're learning new
vocabulary but then you realize it when

you look back and go wow look how far
I've come now I think in English like I

don't I didn't even realize that this
happened when did this happen because

there isn't like a moment where you
cross over okay so obviously we can all

sit there and think of vocabulary in a
foreign language and force ourselves to

do that but if you want to be able to
think in English naturally you need to

be surrounded with a lot of English over
a long period of time okay it comes it

comes with time and the cool thing is
once you do this you may even start

dreaming in English a lot of people get
so excited when they have their first

dream in a foreign language I know I did
when I first started dreaming in Spanish

it was awesome because that's when you
know you're really starting to think in

a foreign language so anyhow let me know
what you guys think about this in the

comments I'm sorry I couldn't give you
you know a step-by-step method of this

is how you think in English in a foreign
language it just doesn't work like that

if you're not thinking in English if you
still have to translate in your head it

is because you're not surrounding
yourself with enough English or you

haven't been studying it for enough time
okay it's your brain will naturally

start thinking in the language that it
is surrounded with that is just how it's

programmed that's just how it works you
won't even have to think about thinking

in the language you just will because
our natural urges are to communicate and

you will have that urge to communicate
in whatever language you communicate in

frequently okay so let me know what you
guys think about this in the comments

and I will see you in another video bye
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