I agree with you about you found the trick. In opposite side, we are facing same thing. Totally different work order and structure. When learning English, our teachers always said that stop thinking Turkish, think only English and don't try to translate word literally, try to understand as a whole.

There is no more trick, but what you said. You have to stop thinking in your own language. This is the first rule of learning a foreign language. The situation is same for us to learn your language, because its against turkish mentality. So you dont have any other choice, but think it in your language, By the way turkish takes all qualificition or association before the main word. So the main word/group of words are always after the secondary words. Thinkk it like adjectives in english: Red house: house is the actual thing, red is its especiality, but its before the main word. We do this for everything in turkish. Verb is the most important, so its at the end.

I´d suggest that you translate it only after you read the the whole sentence. Then, you will have many clues about the sentence in your mind and have more accurate and fast translation and comprehension at once. So, the trick may be "not translating before seeing the full-stop". :)

First of all ,yes you are rıght, you should focus on the meaning of the sentence.Don't think like words in your native language.You can do like that: in Turkısh, generally ( not always) predicate is at the end of the sentence. For example , 'KALDI' is a predicate. Ask to PREDİCATE (KALDI) : Kim kaldı? ( who stayed) . That's answer tell you who stayed (subject of the sentence.) . When you ask 'who' to 'kaldı', you can't get an answer clearly, because this sentence has got a confidential subject. Ask a new questıon to 'kaldı' : Where did she/he stayed? Answer is : internette tanıştığı insanların evlerinde. I can not go on, ı can't say what ı wanna say :) I'm sorry , Fınally, ı wanna write this sentence in English : She/he stayed in house of people she met on the ınternet. Good luck!