I don't know what I say. Well, these days I met a good english teacher. We start to practice and help us. One day we talk only in english to help me, and the other day we talk only in portuguese for h

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I don't know what I say. Well, these days I met a good english teacher. We start to practice and help us. One day we talk only in english to help me, and the other day we talk only in portuguese for help him. He is living and working in Rio de Janeiro, so he needs practice more and study portuguese. I have a big problem, when I listen somebody talking in english, I understand, but when I have that speak in english I feel confused, I don't know to form phrases quickly in my mind, I need translate the phrases in portuguese to finally say in english. This case happen with him, He need translate in english to finally say in portuguese. And He and I wrong the same things of grammar. So, if you have a methodology for help up, please talk to me about this. If I wrote anything wrong, sorry, please correct me. :D Have a nice day! :D

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I don't know what to say.

Well, Recently these days I met a good Teacher of English teacher. We started to practice (practice what?) and help each other us. One day, we talked only in English in order to help me, and the other day we talked only in portuguese in order to for help him. He is living and working in Rio de Janeiro, so he needs to practice more and study Portuguese. I have a big problem, when I listen to somebody talking in English I understand, but when I have to that speak in English I feel confused and I don't know how to form phrases quickly in my mind. I need to translate the phrases in portuguese first then to finally say it in English. This is also the case happenwith him, He needs to translate in English first in order to finally say it in Portuguese. We make the same mistakes with And He and I wrong the same things of grammar. So, if you have a methodology for helping us up, please talk to me about this. If I wrote anything wrong, sorry, please correct me. :D

Have a nice day! :D

Well, the first thing you are doing wrong is translating to your native language then to the target language. What i suggest you do is to understand what is said through body language movements and gestures, and not rely on solely on translation. However, you may not always understand everything, but it is for you to grasp the essence of what is said. Also, try listening to some audio files then write down what it is saying. Afterwards, look for a worded conversation to that audio file in order to see where you went wrong and what words you are not hearing well. Lastly, familiarizing yourself with the language helps over time. By the way, this is what i do - try the constructive approach and not the direct grammar translation (y) SPEAK WITH ERRORS CONFIDENTLY UNTIL YOU ARE ABLE TO CORRECT THEM

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