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0:00 You're in the conversation. Someone asks you a question in English. Your brain immediately goes to 0:09 work. You hear the English words, you translate them into your native language and you think of a 0:17 clever answer in your native language and then translate it back into English to reply. By the time you've opened your 0:26 mouth and actually replied, about 3 seconds have passed. 0:32 The moment can be gone and you might feel slow and like your brain is a little bit tired. I'm your host, Oliver, and 0:43 welcome back to the Easy English Podcast. 0:47 And today we are talking about translating in your head. 0:53 Translating is often the middleman of language learning. 0:59 It takes a cut of your time and your energy to translate from your native language to English and back again. 1:08 And today we are going to talk about firing the middleman, getting rid of the translating in your head. 1:17 And I think this is an important topic for every learner of English at all levels. We're going to take a look at 1:25 what I call the mental switch trick, which will help you to stop translating and instead to start thinking and producing 1:37 directly in English. So if you're excited and you want to learn that, stick around to the end of today's episode. 1:47 If you're new here, welcome to the Easy English Podcast. 1:51 And as always in this series, we learn some key vocabulary at the beginning that I want you to listen out for in today's 2:02 episode. Let's get stuck straight into it. The first word that I want you to learn for today and to listen for is the word lag. 2:13 Lag. And what does lag mean? 2:15 It is a nine and it means a delay between an action and a reaction. So for example, translating in 2:25 my head creates a lag in my speaking. 2:31 Our second piece of key vocabulary for today is to bypass, to bypass, and this is a verb and it means to go around 2:43 or avoid a process or obstacle. So for example, you need to 2:50 bypass your native language to directly think and speak in English. Our third piece of key 2:58 vocabulary today is a phrase, and this is internal monologue. 3:04 Internal monologue and your internal monologue is the inner voice that narrates your thoughts. 3:14 So essentially the voice in your head that is saying or speaking your thoughts in your brain. Our fourth piece of key 3:24 vocabulary is chunking. Chunking, and this is more of a concept that we will explore later on, and chunking is 3:34 learning groups of words that naturally go together instead of individual words. Think about learning phrases 3:44 rather than individual pieces of vocabulary. 3:50 Innovation, the introduction of new ideas, devices or methods. 3:58 For example, technological innovation is driving rapid 4:05 changes in the job market. It's making changes very fast in the job market. And finally, our last word for 4:15 today is the word frictionless. Frictionless, This is an adjective and it means achieved without effort or difficulty. 4:27 So ideally, you want your speaking and listening to be frictionless. You want it to be nice and easy 4:34 and comfortable and lovely to do so that's our key vocabulary for today. You will hear each and every one of these phrases and words in today's episode. 4:46 So listen out and remember. If you want even more key vocabulary, vocabulary lists and practice, you can become a 4:56 member of the Easy English Patreon. 4:59 It helps to support the show and as well you get access to bonus episodes every. We now have over 60 bonus 5:09 episodes, possibly even more on the Patreon. 5:13 So if you Sign up today, you get access to over 60 bonus episodes 5:19 of easy English as well as short stories in English and news in 5:26 easy English and PDF transcripts for every main episode as well. 5:33 So I hope to see you on the Easy English Patreon. 5:37 The link is in the description of the podcast or you can search easy English podcast on Patreon. Back to our episode. 5:47 So we're going to look at the middle man problem. 5:51 When you translate, you are playing a game of tennis with a wall in the middle. So when you picture tennis, you know you hit the ball, it goes over the net to the other person 6:03 and they hit it back. But when you're translating, picture a wall in the middle of this tennis court, you hit the 6:11 ball, it hits the wall, and then it goes over, right? 6:16 So it makes it slower and less efficient. 6:21 And at B1 or B2 level of English, your vocabulary is pretty much large enough to survive. 6:29 But your speed is often what is holding you back. 6:34 You aren't slow because you don't know the words. 6:36 You're slow often in many cases because your brain is running translation in the background. And many students I see time and 6:46 time again get caught up in this translation. 6:50 They get stuck trying to think about how to say something perfectly in English from their native language. 6:59 And to achieve real fluency in English, you need to cut the process from 5 steps and all of these steps down to 2. 7:08 So from input directly to output, not having that middleman of translation in the middle. 7:17 But how do we do this? How do we stop translating? 7:23 We have to stop connecting English words to your native language words directly. Instead, we must connect English 7:33 words directly to concepts and even images. 7:41 Let's do a quick exercise together, and we'll take a word as an example. Let me think. 7:46 Let's use the word apple. Apple. 7:50 Your brain sees the letter in the wrong way as APPLE. 7:55 So when I say apple, you're thinking of the word and it translates the word for apple in your native language, and then you think of the fruit afterwards. 8:08 So you're saying the word and then you're translating, and then you're thinking of the fruit. 8:17 Whereas with the mental switch the correct way, when you hear apple, I want you to immediately think of the image of an apple. 8:28 I want you to immediately see a red crunchy fruit in your mind. 8:34 So you're skipping the native word in your language entirely. 8:38 You're going straight to the image, just as you would when someone says the word in your native language. 8:46 And you need to do this with most nouns and most objects. 8:50 And unfortunately, often when we learn a language, we don't learn it in this way from the beginning, but that's OK. 8:57 It's something that we can build up and develop over time. 9:02 And you can even do it now once you're already so far into learning English. When you look at an object at any point in the day, you can do a little practice. 9:12 If you look at a chair, for example, don't say the native word in your language. Don't try to think about it in your own language. Wait and try to to see the 9:23 English word or get the English word to pop up in your head. 9:28 And then you're building a direct link between the image of a chair, between what you see and the word. 9:36 And that is powerful. It's a very, very important step. It's connecting your English language skills with the physical world. 9:47 And in fact, this is exactly what children do when they're learning language as well. So maybe there is something to 9:55 be learned from kids in this, this respect, I guess, of language learning. But don't worry, there are other ways that you can practice thinking directly in English. 10:07 I've definitely said this one before on the podcast, but it is one of the most powerful, and that is the monologue method. 10:15 And the best way to practice this is when you're completely alone. But to be honest, you can do this at any time or point of the day, no matter where you are or 10:26 what you're doing. And this is focusing on your internal monologue. Almost everyone has an internal 10:35 monologue. This is that voice in your head that is basically saying or narrating your thoughts, what 10:44 you are thinking. And chances are, even when you're speaking in English, your internal monologue is probably in your native language. And if it isn't, if it's in 10:55 English, that is great. You have an amazing first step and you can continue to develop that. 11:02 But I want to challenge you after this episode to try and do over the next week. Between now and the next episode 11:10 you listen to, I want you to try for 5 minutes every day to think in English. So just take 5 minutes, whatever 11:20 you're doing, and try to narrate your life. 11:23 So to have that voice in your head, speak in English about what you are doing. So for example, I am making 11:34 coffee, I am eating my dinner. It is very tasty. 11:38 It can be simple things like that. 11:40 Or you're looking around thinking today is quite sunny. 11:45 It is nice whatever I am enjoying my day is simple things like this in your head. You don't need to try and be complex or poetic or complicated. 11:57 Simply use the simplest English that you know. 12:01 And to be honest, most native speakers are also thinking of these in this way, in a nice, simple, easy way for them to. 12:11 And by doing this, you are training your brain, you're training your internal monologue that it's OK, it can think in English. It doesn't need to translate everything. And it's, it's getting you used 12:22 to using English as an operational language, something that you use. You're flipping that mental switch of your English to on rather than leaving it off in 12:32 the background. And to be honest, all of that aside, it's just a really great and easy way to practice because 12:40 thinking is a very core element of what we do day-to-day all the time. OK, so I have one more method 12:51 that I want to teach you today, and that is the method of chunking. But before we do that, let's go to our listener Spotlight. Now, if you're new, the listener 13:02 Spotlight is a time every week where I read a comment or two of an answer to a question that I ask, and each week I ask a 13:13 question related to our topic. So this week's question that I want to ask you to answer is about translating in your head, 13:24 and I want you to tell me about your experience. 13:27 Do you think in your native language? 13:31 Do you ever try to think in English? 13:34 And do you translate in your head from one language to another? I want to hear your experience. 13:42 Have you ever had a moment where you felt like you weren't translating? Maybe an experience that was different. Share your thoughts on this 13:51 topic and I will choose some of your comments and read them out in next week's episode. In last week's episode, I asked 13:59 about if you have a different personality in English. 14:04 What is it like? I have one comment that I want to read out today, and it was a really, really great one. 14:11 It was from Hiroki, so hello Oliver. 14:15 I'm Hiroki from Japan, I really appreciate your interesting podcast every week and your continuous contribution. 14:26 Thank you very much, you're very welcome. 14:29 Regarding your question, one of my English speaking friends told me that I seem to be very open minded when I speak in English. 14:40 I had never noticed this before in my native language. 14:43 I tend to see myself as a calm and shy person. 14:48 I feel that speaking English has helped me discover a new side of myself. Thank you again. 14:57 You're very welcome. What a wonderful, amazing answer to that question. Hiroki, thank you for sharing that. That's interesting. 15:07 So perhaps when you speak English, you become a little bit more open and your personality changes. 15:14 And it's very interesting that you say that, you know, it has helped you to discover another side of yourself. 15:21 I think that's amazing. That's a very wonderful thing to experience. Thank you again for your lovely comment. And I send all of my warm wishes 15:30 and love to Japan. And another quick comment I see from Sarah, she said I'm very afraid to make mistakes. 15:39 Don't be afraid Sarah. Making mistakes is probably one of the best things that you can do in English. 15:47 It will help you to learn and improve. 15:50 If you weren't making mistakes, you wouldn't really have much progress or improvement to do in the 1st place. 15:56 So I think that making mistakes is a great thing. 16:01 Thank you for your lovely comments, everyone. 16:03 I do take the time to read each and every one of them. 16:06 And I love seeing you write in English. 16:09 It's also great practice too. So remember, for our next week's episode, I want you to tell me about your experience with 16:18 translating in your head. Let's go back to our episode. 16:23 So we want to look at stop building, start chunking. 16:30 What does that mean? That's quite a vague for ears. 16:33 Essentially, one major reason that we translate is that we try to build every sentence in our head like Lego. 16:44 I'm sure you all know Lego, the blocks that you put together and you can create lovely things and buildings and it's super popular with children. While many people treat language 16:55 like that, and that's fine, but when you're doing it live in a conversation, it can be quite exhausting, quite tiring. 17:06 So instead you need to start using some more chunking. 17:09 Chunking. What is that? 17:11 Well, a chunk is a group of words that always stays together. Like by the way, or I was 17:19 wondering, or I think that or even how are you as a question. 17:26 If you learn individual words, you have to translate and combine each one on the spot. If you've learnt some chunks for 17:35 specific situations and scenarios or even ways that you like to speak with certain phrases, it makes it easier. 17:43 You've learned the phrase as a unit and it's like having a pre built wall instead of a pile of bricks. 17:53 And when you use these chunks, you're also bypassing the grammar rules that are in your head. 17:58 You're not having to think about those either, and you're going straight to that final result. Now, I'm not saying that you need to just learn a massive list of phrases. 18:09 But what I'm saying is the more you practice, start to develop and learn certain set phrases that you like, more general 18:18 phrases like for example, you know, to be honest or I think that things which you will use when you're expressing opinions, 18:26 when you're expressing positive reactions, negative reactions, it's OK to learn and use phrases. 18:35 Most native speakers speak in patterns. 18:37 So they have certain phrases that they like to use and they tend to repeat those phrases. It's completely natural. 18:46 So it's OK for you to learn and do the same as well. 18:50 OK, So what I want you to do now, if you've listened this far and you're quite new, make sure you're following and subscribed so you don't miss next week's episode. 19:01 And really to conclude, thinking in English feels scary at first because it feels like you're letting go of a safety net, 19:12 which is your own language. But your brain is an incredibly powerful pattern recognising machine, so do trust it. 19:22 Trust the work that your brain can do. 19:25 If you give it permission to start bypassing the translation step and using chunks, or going straight to the English images 19:34 or the images from English, it will surprise you. 19:38 You don't need to translate, you never have. 19:42 And in the future, hopefully you won't start looking at the world a little bit more directly through English, even if it's 19:52 step by step, 5 minutes a day, you will notice improvements. 19:59 OK, now we have a new section on the show. 20:03 We introduced it last week. If you didn't listen to last week's episode, please do. But to explain again, this is a 20:11 comprehension check. So at the end of each episode now I'm going to ask some questions to see how well you understood the episode. So I'm. 20:21 I'm going to ask the question and then I'm going to pause a little bit and answer. And I want you to pause the audio as well while you answer, and then you can play and hear 20:32 the answer. OK, so we have 4 questions today. Let's start with question one. 20:39 What is the middleman problem? We talked about this middleman problem. What is it translating from 20:47 English to your native language and back again? 20:52 So this is the middleman. Translating is the middleman and it causes lag or delay. Question 2. 21:02 How does the mental switch work? The mental switch is flipping that switch to now connect English directly to images or 21:14 concepts in your mind, so you're skipping your native language entirely. Question three What is chunking? 21:26 What is chunking? Chunking is learning groups of words that naturally go together, such as some set 21:35 phrases or natural expressions, and you learn them as a single unit, which helps to speed up your speech and your time 21:44 thinking, and allows you to bypass grammar and your own native language too. Our final question, what is the 21:53 monologue method? And this is the challenge and task I've set you this week. The monologue method is narrating your daily actions. So you're thinking in English 22:06 for a set time to train your inner monologue or your inner voice. That's it for today's episode. 22:15 Thank you so much, my friends, for listening and for practising your English. Each and everyone of you are doing so well. I'm so impressed with the 22:24 comments and the messages that I receive and for the work that people do on the Patreon as well. 22:31 Thank you so, so much for your support and for just listening to this podcast. I hope to see you all in next 22:40 week's episode or a bonus episode a little later in the week on the Patreon. I will see you soon. 22:48 Have a lovely rest of your day. Goodbye.
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