Thinking In English
Many people recommend that you had better try to think in the way of English while you’re learning English. It means that you don’t need to translate your mother’s tongue into English and vice versa. What’s the difference between the way that you thinking in your own language and in another language?
Once I went to practice golf in a driving range. When I took a rest that I noticed a child he was just swinging golf and his movements were so fascinating that drawing my attention. A man who is just next to him was totally different from the child, though the man’s movements were correct. The man’s body is too stiff to fully spin and it causes the problem in harmony with upper arm movements.
It is pretty much like studying English. The younger you are the easier for your study. We always interpret the English with our understanding and knowledge which means for each of the vocabularies we encounter it all need to be translated into our language. For adults, they are more tend to comprehend the word by their logic. The logic is formed for many years and it can hardly be changed. Translation becomes a necessary process can’t bypass regardless of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. However, this process is just an obstacle to learning a new language.
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Thinking In English
Many people recommend that you had better try (...you should try...) to think in the way of English while you’re learning English. It (This) means that you don’t need (...you should try not...) to translate your mother’s tongue into English and vice versa. What’s the difference between the way that you thinking in your own language (...thinking in your mother tongue...) and thinking in another language?
Once I went to practice golf in a driving range. When I took a rest(break), that I noticed a child, he was just swinging golf (1) and his movements were so fascinating that drawing that it drew my attention. (By contrast,...) A man who is was just next to him was totally different from the child. Though the man’s movements were correct, the man’s body is was too stiff, he did not twist fully, to fully spin and it causes resulted in the problem where his body did not move in harmony with upper arm movements.
It is pretty much like studying English. The younger you are the easier for your study. We always interpret the English (interpret English/ interpret the English language) with our understanding and knowledge that we already know. Which means for each of the vocabularies (2) word we encounter it all needs to be translated into our native language. For adults, they are more tend likely/inclined to comprehend the word by their logic. The This logic is formed for over many years and it can hardly be changed. Translation becomes a necessary process, they can’t bypass it regardless of whether it is listening, speaking, reading, and writing. However, this process is just an obstacle to learning a new language.
-Those in brackets are suggestion of more common ways of how we would say it, not because you are grammatically wrong.
-(1)swinging golf : I think this may not sound right. Unfortunately I don't play golf so I don't know the terms used in golfing. Hopefully someone who plays golf can jump in and help with this part .
-(2) vocabulary is a collection or body of words. So you cannot say "each vocabulary". Plural of vocabulary is usually also vocabulary as it is both countable and uncountable. It is quite rare to say vocabularies.
Yes I also agree with you, I have also been trying not to translate in my head for sometime now unless really necessary.
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