How to think in English | No more translating in your head!

hey guys welcome to lingua marina and welcome to miami two questions have you ever had a problem when you're translating everything in your head from your

language into english and question number two do you ever wish you could think in english if you answered yes watch this video to the very end because i'm gonna share the tips that help me

start thinking in english let's do it and enjoy miami in the background

[Music] first of all let me tell you my favorite story when i was 14 i won a competition

to come to the uk from my school to stay with a local family i was 14. i thought

i was advanced in english my first shock was when i uh was crossing the border and the guy asked me something in british accent i was like ah sorry so i couldn't really understand

what he was asking he was asking something super basic like why did you come to great britain but my second shock was when i woke up 14 years old woke up in the morning and

people started speaking english to me you know when you wake up in the morning your brain is like what's going on where am i new country new everything and then people start

speaking english to you and my host mother asked me marina what do you want for breakfast very basic question but my brain was

blank like i couldn't remember a single word in english because it was in the morning because i was shocked and i was like i am not used to speaking english in the morning but the thing is when you're 14 years old your brain is really

adaptive and in two weeks and i was 14 years old 2004 no skype no internet no nothing i was completely immersed in english by the

end of my second week i was dreaming in english when i came back i told this story to students at my school and they were like marina you

have to share those tips here they are in this video

[Music] the first tip is actually one of the most important things you can do as an

english language learner when you see an object or a person name them in english what's going on right there it's a concert

someone is singing you see the problem is when we learn english at school they tell us backpack and then they say a word in your language which refers to backpack

so you're not learning the concept you're learning translation and this is what's going to happen you're going to translate everything in your head so it's going to happen from now on you're going to kind

of reteach yourself you're going to do things you're going to see objects and you're going to name them in english without even translating in your head so you're going to talk to yourself i am

walking i'm in miami i'm on vacation that guy is singing oprah you're not translating you are giving english language labels to your everyday

objects and actions and once you get used to naming objects in english then you're going to start talking to yourself and some people are gonna tell you you're

crazy you're crazy but this was a game changer for me when i started speaking to myself in english like i came back from school and i hated some person and i would be like talking to myself about

that person in english just giving you some miami vibes meditation you're gonna learn english you're gonna come here you're gonna enjoy this place oh my god it's one of

the it's the first place i visited in the and uh u.s

rings means a lot to me this is where i was like okay i need to move here this is an incredible place i hope you're getting these vibes as

well one of the best things you can do in english and it's great in terms of motivation and also great in terms of learning start using english as an instrument to reach your goals and by

this i mean instead of watching a class purely about english watch a class about things that interest you for example i always take courses the recent course i took was about videos i took a course on

productivity i took a course on economics like all of that stuff that interests you start learning about this in english because you're going to learn concepts right away when you're taking a course in english they're not going to

translate from your language they're going to be like oh this concept you know investing in stocks let's talk about a stock what is a stock it's a piece of company that you can own blah

blah blah so this is the way you learn in english and once you start learning english as an instrument you would be able to learn concepts right away and this is a way to start thinking in english the platform to take courses

from native speakers is called skillshare i have a long history with skillshare i've been using them myself a lot skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring

classes for anyone who loves learning and wants to explore their creativity and new skills skillshare is one of the best platforms to take classes from native speakers and i've been using it a

lot there is so many different classes there and they let you explore any topic as i mentioned productivity i.t design

photography web design whatever you want to explore you will be able to find a course one of the courses that i wanted to recommend is by a fellow creator thomas frank so i'm super passionate about english and i can talk about

english i can explore different concepts every single day because i love it he is passionate about productivity he can explore productivity every single day and he put together classes that teach

you how to build systems around productivity like how do you manage being a student working part-time learning english getting married having kids he tackles this problem by creating

his own systems and i highly highly recommend learning from him he's one of the most amazing creators i've ever met and he has put together classes for skillshare the first 1000 people who use the link in the description are gonna

get one month of free skillshare trial the link is down in the description [Music]

another thing you could do is switch one of your daily routines into english for example what i love doing when i do yoga i always use english speaking videos so you just go

to youtube and type in you know 20 minute yoga or whatever if you write lists like shopping lists that's the best practice because sometimes

there are words that we're so used to in our native language we're like oh but what's that in english like laundry detergent or dishwasher detergent like

all of these words that we use almost daily but we use them in our own language when we do shopping lists this is the way for you to learn how to say them in english so your task

right now is to choose one of the things you do regularly like once in two days every day and switch them to english completely let's go oh where's my phone

where's my phone there's my phone where's my phone see talking to myself in english where is my phone see you go around your life i'm

pushing the button to get an elevator i'm getting the elevator my baby forgot her water gun now let's take a look at the first video i published on this channel

hey guys welcome to my channel today i wanted to share my story with you the story about how i passed trifle ibt so you see first of all because i'm doing this regularly

when i see the camera i can tell my brain like hey this is time to speak english and my brain is like okay let's switch

or i also vlog in russian and i'll be like it's time to speak russian and my brain is switching and the reason it's working is because i've been doing this for six years almost every single day when i

first came to the us and i started talking to my immigrant friends they told me marina the day when you start switching between two languages russian and english

in your daily life without thinking this is when you master thinking in english because yes of course you can spend two weeks in an english-speaking country

without internet connection without speaking in your own language but then you go back to your home country and you forget the skill the thing is you need to create

environment for yourself that you do the switching every single day i speak russian to my family to my kids to my husband half of my team speaks

russian but i also have zoom calls in english i have my american friends i have you guys and because i do this daily switching

from russian into english i think i've almost mastered it it's a piece of advice learning from all of this i was starting a youtube channel in english but i know that not everyone

wants to be in front of the camera people say start some kind of blogging some kind of social media in english it could be tick tock like super easy

like say a couple phrases or it could be instagram where you take photos and write captions long captions long form youtube videos are the best for english speaking practice if you

don't want to be in front of the camera if you don't like social media create a whatsapp group with your friends and tell them like guys this is a whatsapp group in english and we're going to discuss

this in this topic but it's only going to be in english and we're going to be discussing daily and you could discuss through voice messages through texting something and by doing this you're going

to learn two things first english switching between languages second by having a community where you talk about things that matter

to you you learn how to express your thoughts you learn how to negotiate you learn how to react when people criticize you all of these skills are super important

for your whole life so there are three things that i believe in in this life first of all that everyone should learn english second entrepreneurship is great and people should try and change lives by becoming entrepreneurs

or helping entrepreneurs and three is that everybody has to have some kind of community a group of people who they talk to regularly

because you learn so much from doing this so please find a way to do it for yourself when i lived in russia i loved using a technique called shadowing so

shadowing is a technique used to improve your english language pronunciation it basically means that you select a person who you love whose accent you adore and you start repeating after them you

start watching more and more of their videos you start borrowing some of their phrases and yes i mentioned this is for pronunciation but because you're diving deeper

into conversations because you're diving deeper into what that person says you start learning new words and you start getting used to thinking in english one of the people i love shadowing learning

new words is gary vee a couple of examples he loves saying the word audacity and when you start following some people you will realize they actually love using the same words over

and over again and this is the best way to learn these words so find a person who you love find a person with an accent that you love because again there is british american canadian

find that person and start following them religiously and by following them religiously i mean watching their videos at least once a day or once in two days and writing down

things that you love repeating after them and when you're done with the initial list of phrases go back to that person and create a new

list of phrases that you want to shadow [Music] so many of you guys have followed me already live in an english-speaking country and one of the things

that i noticed is that a lot of people come up to me and say like hey like for example i live very close to a russian community here in miami and they're like speak to russians all the time how do we practice

and i noticed that a lot of americans they like small talks so whenever they come to a small coffee shop they would ask people how they're doing what's going on

how many tourists are here try this like this requires more energy because when i try to do it i'm like i'm so tired today i just really want my coffee and i want to go to the beach and that's it

but um i noticed that a lot of people actually speak to almost everyone they meet and they're like they take their time to learn about those people like oh how's it going here today how many

coffees have you served is that a busy day uh what did you do yesterday when it was raining like crazy this is a great way to practice it's also a great way to

develop the skill of how to make friends as you go like literally just buying coffee from someone and asking them how they're doing does so much for your language for that

person and for your skills try that i'm still learning like i'm learning from my american friends i have some who are like really great at this

but um you know most of the times i'm like i don't know should i talk to them should i not oh yeah they're amazing people thank you thank you so

much have a great day thank you bye-bye [Music] guys wanted to wrap up this video by saying that we talked about a lot of

things that helped me other things might be helpful to you some things might not work for you but the thing is there are two key components

to a successful studying process first of all stay excited think about how english is going to help you succeed how it's going to help you consume content that you love

and second stay consistent practice every day do something in english every day and most importantly watch this channel weekly don't forget to subscribe and

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soon bye