How To Learn a Language Fast: Say No to Translation

Gabriel Wyner · 18 Jul 2019 · blog.fluent-forever.com ↗

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Removing translation from the process is what lets you think in the language from the beginning.

Their wordsWhen you remove translation from your language learning process, you can learn to think in your target language from the beginning.

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Translating in your head has a ceiling; thinking in the language is the only thing that gets past it.

Their wordsThere is a limit to translation. You can make your translations more and more complex, and you can get very fast at them, but it will never be as fast or as fluent as simply thinking in the language.

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