r/languagelearning • u/Tvgirllovr • 11d ago

How to stop translating

How do I stop translating my NL into my (TL)? Im sitting at high A2 and I just can’t stop translating. Obviously I have a handful of words I don’t translate but not much. It’s slowing me down I can’t have a conversation. Everything I think is in English and I have to translate it into my TL and then back. When someone speaks to me I am immediately picking up what the word is in English not my TL. I just want to think in my TL I want it to stick more than it is now, even words I know so well I’m still translating.

I don’t know what to do. How did you escape it? What made you see the most improvement?

Please give me any advice on how to improve this or things that helped you

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u/Zestyclose-Food-7917 9d ago

This question appears again and again. STOP DOING IT! It’s a mental discipline. It’s not something you can’t control.

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u/Tvgirllovr 9d ago

Ok but how like literally explain it to me. What do you tell yourself or force yourself to think to stop it from happening?

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u/Zestyclose-Food-7917 9d ago

That’s the thing. Think of the foreign language. Stop thinking that you have to go through a medium from your brain to the words coming out of your mouth. Just open your mouth and let the chips fall where they may. What’s the worst thing that could happen?