People usually translate their mother tongue into English when they have conversations. This process makes English learners to have their speaking skill smooth and fluent.
So, in order to speak English naturally, learners must practice thinking in English. When we talk, you need to some ideas in mind so we can produce the words, and sentences. Thinking in English helps us to be ready for those words and sentences structures. It will be in our mind sleeping. Then when we have conversation, those words and sentences will wake up and ready for use.
How do we practice thinking in English?
Well, it is quite tricky as many people can’t do this. They don’t know what to think in English because when an idea comes to their mind, it first is in their native language. Therefore, we have to spend a lot of time to do this exercise every day. For first days, we will need words and very simple sentence structure to apply.
For example, we have the sentence: “I like this movie.” , we can make hundreds of other sentences by replacing the word “movie” with other words in above sentence. Do this replacement exercise in our mind. Just think of those new sentences. And this is we are practicing thinking in English.
Other method which helps us practice thinking in English is to translate the overheard stories anywhere in the way we can. Translate all about what ‘s happening around us is also a good thing.
The more we practice with those action, the better our mind gets familiar with thinking in English, English thinking may come before our native language thinking. It means we can think in English at the time, and our speaking skill will be better.
