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think in English, you won't truly become fluent. Do you translate from your native language into English while you're speaking in conversations? It slows you down, doesn't it? It creates unnatural pauses and it increases your stress levels while you're speaking because you panic when you realize you're taking too long ... | 00:00:00.000 | 00:00:28.480 | |
communicate easily and naturally in English. So today I want to share some simple exercises and techniques to train your brain to think in English. I'm Emma and here at Hey Lady we are passionate about helping women to speak up and say yes to more new opportunities as English speakers. You can find out more about us by... | 00:00:28.480 | 00:00:55.040 | |
Thinking in English is so related and connected to feeling fluent in English. Being able to speak without pause or hesitation, just to have the words ready on the tip of your tongue. So how do you get from where you are right now to that magical place? How can you train your brain to think in English? One of the core p... | 00:00:55.920 | 00:01:25.280 | |
yourself consistently and that makes sense. You surround yourself with the language that you're learning as much as possible. If you haven't already made the switch to English speaking news, start there. Learn the lyrics to English songs and listen or sing to them as much as you can. Watch movies or TV shows if that's ... | 00:01:25.280 | 00:01:52.800 | |
While you're doing any of these things, you're hearing words and useful grammatical structures in context which helps you to understand how they're used in real life situations and it makes it easier for you to recall them when you need to use them in your own thoughts or your own conversations. I recommend allocating ... | 00:01:53.360 | 00:02:21.040 | |
in English and the wonderful thing about doing it daily is that the results compound over time. You'll reach your goal of thinking in English much faster if you practice every day rather than practicing for five hours once a fortnight and that's because you are progressively building on what you did the day before. Thi... | 00:02:21.040 | 00:02:49.280 | |
right? But if you don't go again for two whole weeks, your muscle and your stamina reverts starts to go backwards. So the next time that you're there, you're actually just building up the strength that you lost during that period where you weren't working out. But if you keep working out every day, you're going to be p... | 00:02:49.280 | 00:03:15.680 | |
right? It's the same with your English training. Now listening and immersion are so good. You can walk around all day every day receiving English through your headphones, right? And that exposure to the language is great. But in order to train your brain to be thinking in English, you need to work a little bit harder. ... | 00:03:15.680 | 00:03:44.160 | |
structures in your mind so that you can really easily access them while you're thinking in English. You need to keep that language super active. Now I've got a few specific exercises that you can do to train your brain to think in English. And I've designed these activities to be short and manageable. You'll be able to... | 00:03:44.160 | 00:04:13.440 | |
as the source. Six Minute English is fantastic because their episodes are short and sweet and they're focused on a clear specific context. Before you press play, spend 60 seconds brainstorming words and ideas that you already know about the podcast topic. The trick here is not to translate. If you catch yourself trying... | 00:04:13.440 | 00:04:42.480 | |
stop and move on. Just write down the English words that come to you. Then you're going to play the episode through. Now I really want you to give your full focus to the episode while you're doing this activity. And that's why the Six Minute episodes are great. They're short, they're sweet. Once you finish listening, u... | 00:04:42.480 | 00:05:09.200 | |
the podcast in English. Do this straight after you finish listening and intentionally focus on recalling the words and the ideas in English. It doesn't need to be in any particular order, but write down what you recall from the episode as soon as those things pop into your mind. What's great about this is that you're m... | 00:05:09.200 | 00:05:34.720 | |
the language that you've just been listening to and the English words that you need to talk about the topic or to share these ideas again. To take it one step further, meet with your speaking partner to discuss the podcast episode. And here's the thing. The more you practice doing it, the easier it becomes to think in ... | 00:05:34.720 | 00:06:00.560 | |
to activate English words, ideas and thoughts in your mind, more power to you. Let me give you another exercise to try. This time we're going to use a YouTube video as the source. At the time of filming this video, our conversation topic inside Hey Lady is about fast fashion. So we're learning lots of vocabulary and id... | 00:06:00.560 | 00:06:27.920 | |
environmental impacts. So we're going to use one of the recommended resources inside the platform. It's a video about the fast fashion industry. Before we do anything else, we're just going to watch the first one minute of the video without the sound on. We're going to use this video to prompt your brain to think in En... | 00:06:27.920 | 00:06:54.720 | |
topic. So make sure you have a piece of paper in front of you so that you can write down what you see or you don't need to write it down. You could say it out loud or even just think them in English. That's okay. Now in this video, the images move really quickly. So I'm going to slow down the playback speed down to 0.5... | 00:06:54.720 | 00:07:22.960 | |
and we're going to watch the first full minute of the video. If there were some things that you saw on the screen as you were watching but you couldn't quite think of the word in English, take a moment to look them up once you finish that first minute. Try to avoid translating directly from your own language and instea... | 00:07:22.960 | 00:07:49.520 | |
in English and connect other words or ideas to the vocabulary that you're trying to lock into your brain. Then if you have time, watch the video again. Complete the same activity again because on the second time you're going to see those words that you didn't have in your mind before that prompt on the screen is going ... | 00:07:49.520 | 00:08:17.200 | |
that neurological pathway. There are so many things that you can do to practice like this on your own or to practice with your speaking partner or your study group to help reinforce those words and bring them to your thoughts. The more that you repeat and you hone a specific topic, the stronger you make those pathways ... | 00:08:17.200 | 00:08:44.080 | |
The next strategy that's going to train your brain to think in English is to engage in English conversations and actually speak. Although you might be nervous, although you might be anxious, practice speaking as much as possible because it's in these real conversations that you're actually forced to think on your feet ... | 00:08:44.080 | 00:09:10.240 | |
activity is made much, much easier if what you were doing in the previous exercises is actually what you are talking about as well. So that the ideas, the vocabulary, everything you need is connected. Now if you're a regular viewer of this channel, you'll know that inside the Hey Lady community there are conversation e... | 00:09:10.240 | 00:09:36.480 | |
join as many of them as you like. So it makes it really easy to speak regularly and to practice consistently. And finally you can train your brain to think in English by setting a fixed amount of time, just five minutes. You can set a timer and simply describe what is happening around you in the world. If you're on a w... | 00:09:36.480 | 00:10:05.600 | |
this activity is you can do it anytime, anywhere. And during that time your only task is to mentally focus on pulling your brain away from your native language and towards English, describe the world around you, narrate your actions, what you're doing, express your thoughts or your opinions about what's happening aroun... | 00:10:05.680 | 00:10:34.560 | |
sentences about actions and gradually start to increase the complexity. You can shift some of the tenses you're using, talk about what happened at the same time yesterday or what you hope will happen in the future. Now the short time frame here is really important. It can be even less because this activity is really ex... | 00:10:34.560 | 00:11:03.680 | |
This skill is like flexibility. You know, it gradually builds up over time. It becomes easier if you do it regularly. So just make a habit of it. Consistency is so, so important. So make sure you set aside a dedicated amount of time each day to engage in English and to complete one of these exercises. I recommend using... | 00:11:04.320 | 00:11:33.600 | |
recommendations down in the description. Or if you're a hey lady member, you can use the extra resources associated with our conversation topic. And I'm recommending these things because you can keep coming back to the same place to get those materials, to get the next episode, to get the next chapter. Stay motivated, ... | 00:11:33.600 | 00:12:01.120 |
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