6 ways to STOP translating in your head & THINK in another language! |

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy

大家好，欢迎回到“与Lucy 一起学习英语

I probably look a little bit different today and that it's

我今天看起来大概有点不太一样

because I think I live in the hottest flat in England

那是因为我觉得我住在英国或者说至少在剑桥的最热的公寓里

or at least in Cambridge

Oh my God

噢，我的天啊

right, so it's around 27, 28 degrees outside which for England is really really hot

好吧，外面大概在27，28摄氏度左右

这对于英国来说是非常非常热的天气了

在我的公寓里感觉像是该死的热带雨林一样

but inside my flat it's like a damn rain forest

it's humid muggy

非常的潮湿 闷热——这是一个非常好的词汇

that's a really good word

muggy is when it's like heavy hot sticky air

“闷热”用来形容厚重 炎热 粘稠的空气，潮湿

humidity

and I have a whole wall of windows which is great

而对我来说有一整面墙的窗子是非常好的一件事

because it lets in a lot of light

因为很多光线可以透射进来

but it also

但是也导致了我公寓里的“温室效应”

contributes to a green house effect in my flat and so I'm actually boiling

而我现在非常燥热

so

所以我无法强迫自己把头发扎起来

I couldn't bring myself to do my hair

因为。。。

cause it was just like put it in and then it would fall out again

把发夹用上之后它还是会又一次的脱落

and also no turtle necks today

今天也没有穿高领的衣服

got my Coca Cola t-shirt instead

取而代之的是一件可口可乐的T恤

which is not sponsored

但这并不是赞助

wish it was sponsored, imagine having Coca Cola sponsoring you, awesome

虽然我很想这是赞助

想象一下可口可乐咱赞助你是多么棒的一件事

so today is a really really really important video

好的 今天这是一个非常非常非常重要的视频

Today I'm going to give you some advice on how to stop translating

今天 我会在

“怎样避免把要学习的语言翻译成你的母语”方面给予一些建议

into your native language

Because a lot of people have this problem

因为很多人都会有这个问题

I've asked lots of English learners and learners of other languages

我咨询了很多英语学习者

以及其他语言的学习者

and they say: "I would be able to speak so much more fluently if I could stop translating"

他们说

”如果我能够避免翻译的话，我可以说的更加的流利。“

now, most of you probably already knew this

现在 你们中的大部分人都可能已经知道

if you are new to this channel then I speak fluent Spanish

如果你刚刚才关注这个频道

那就是我还会说一口流利的西班牙语

and I'm actively learning Italian

而且现在我正在通过练习主动的学习意大利语

and I remember at the beginning of my Spanish learning journey

我记得在我刚刚开始

学习西班牙语的时候

I really find it hard not to translate

我发现不翻译是非常难的事情

and translating between English and Spanish can be really really difficult

而且在英语和西班牙语之间翻译

会非常非常的难和烦躁

and annoying

because the word other is so different

因为词序十分的不同

I'm now learning Italian actively

现在我正在不断地练习学习意大利语

而且学习的效果还不错

and I'm managing to do so without translating into Spanish or English

并没有通过翻译成西班牙语或者英语

So

所以 通过我自己作为一个语言学习者的经验

Speaking from my own experience as a language learner

and speaking from my experience as an English language teacher

和作为一个英语老师的经验来说

I'm going to give you some advice and hopefully

我准备给你们一些建议

希望可以帮助你们迈过这个巨大巨大的

help you get over this massive massive problem

that it's preventing you from improving

阻止你进步的难关

Firstly, before we get started I'd just like to thank the sponsor of today's video

首先 在我们开始之前

我想感谢今天这个视频的赞助商

Lingoda

Lingoda

This is a company I've been working with for a while

我和这个公司合作了很长一段时间了

I really really belive in what they have on offer

我真的真的相信他们所提供的资源

They are an online language academy

他们是一个线上的语言教学机构

They teach English, French, Spanish and German

他们教授英语 法语 西班牙语 和德语

and you sign up on a monthly basis

如果你按月注册的话

and you get a combination of group and private lessons

你将会得到一个小组和个人的组合课程

taught by a video chat

通过视频进行教学

They have really really great materials

他们会通过真实的合格的母语老师

taught to you and delivered to you by real native qualifed teachers

把非常非常好的材料

授予（教授 给予）你

and if you look at the prices it's actually very very reasonable

而且如果你看看价格

也会觉得非常的合理

it's often much more affordable to study with Lingoda than it is to go to a like in person language school

相比起亲自去上语言学校

通过Lingoda来学习常常更加的经济划算

they've given me a discount for you

他们给了我折扣

you can get 50 euros or dollars off of your first month subscription at Lingoda

你们第一个月的订阅可以得到50欧元或者美元的折扣

by clicking on the link in the description box

通过点击下方”描述“里的链接

输入折扣码”ENGLUCY6"

and using the discount code ENGLUCY6

ENGLUCY6

All the information is down there

所有的信息都在下方

Right,

好的 我们正式开始这个视频吧

Right,

Let's get started with the video

天啊 太热了

Oh my God

IT. IS. SO. HOT

I bet all of you are in your country

我相信你们全都在自己的国家

Actually, let's do something fun tell me where you live and

让我们来说做一些有趣的事

告诉我你住在哪

what temperature is where you are right now cause I bet something of you are in like 40 degree heat

然后你做待的地方的天气温度是多少

因为我敢打赌你们中的一些人正在感受40摄氏度的气温

I know my friends in Seville are really suffering with the heat and I'm here with 27 degrees

我知道我在塞尔威亚的朋友

正在煎熬着高温

而我现在在这27摄氏度的气温里正在死去

DYING!

I'm very sensitive

我非常的敏感

Okay so I've been thinking about this question for a long time

好的 我对于这个问题（标题）已经思考了很长一段时间了

and I have actually made some notes on my phone

而且我实际上还在手机上记录了一些笔记

just because I want to get it in the right order for you

仅仅因为我想把这些用正确的顺序告诉你们

so bear with me

所以原谅我吧

So,

好的，那么该怎样避免把学习的语言翻译成自己的母语呢

How to avoid translating into your native language?

第一个我要给你们的诀窍

Well, the first tip I can give you and this will not apply to everyone

但这并不适用于所有的人

就是在刚刚接触的时候就不要开始“翻译”

is don't start in the first place

if you are in like a beginner level of English

如果你处于英语的初学者

一些翻译是不可避免的

some translation is inevitable

I mean, you are going to do it

你肯定会去做

the way we learn in school is

我们在学校学习的方法是 amarillo （西班牙语），黄色

Amarillo

Yellow

Naranja

Orange

naranja，橙色

We learn through translation

我们通过“翻译”来学习

但是 回到你们还是婴儿的时候

However

Think back to when you were a baby

How did you acquire your first ever language?

你们是怎样获取你们的第一门语言的

Your mother tongue

你的母语？

你们通过观察 看 听

You learn through observing, seeing, watching, hearing, smelling, tasting

闻 尝 每一个动作来学习

watching actions

并不是通过翻译

you didn't learn through translation

因为没有一个可以翻译成的基础存在

because you had nothing to base your translation on

because you had no mother tongue

因为没有母语

so babies are capable of learning a langue without any other language as reference

所以婴儿是有能力在没有其他语言作参考的情况下

学习语言的

但是我们却发现难以置信的困难

yet, we find it incredibly difficult

So, what you need to think is simplification

所以你们所需要要想的就是简化

Babies start small and over years and years and years they build their vocabulary

婴儿从小开始

通过年复一年

他们建立积累了他们的词汇

and you need to apply this to yourself as well

而你们也需要将这样的方法实施在自己的身上

is much more effective to learn vocabulary by observing and taking things in

通过观察和吸收

学习词汇更加的高效

than it is to just you know looking something at a dictionary

相比于在字典里查找词汇来说

and that brings me on to my next point

而这就开启了我的下一个要点

Oh my God! I'm so hot!

天啊 我好热啊

and that brings me on to my next point which is

我的下一个要点

就是将你的双语字典

Grab your bilingual dictionary and throw it

“扔出窗外”

out of the window! Don't do that, okay? It might land on somebody's head

别那样做 好吧

它可能会砸到某个人的脑袋

Just place it to one side very carefully

小心翼翼地把它放在一旁

and then pick up your monolingual dictionary

然后拿起一本单语的字典

是这样说吗 （monolingual）

Is that the word for it?

And then

好的 拿起这本你正在学习的语言的字典

Pick up the dictionary in the language that you are learning

通常情况下 是英语

In many of your cases it would be English

and start letting the language define itself

开始让那门语言定义它自己

像名词或者动词

so with words like nouns and verbs it can be a little difficult to understand

可能会比较难以理解

but that's what you need to learn through observation

但是这就是你需要通过观察来学习的地方

When you are looking at adjective, adverbs and other things like that

当你查找形容词 副词

和类似的词的时候

Try to understand the definition in that same language first

尝试着理解你所要学习的语言给出定义

Because what you are going to be doing is training yourself to think in the language that you are learning

因为你所要做的就是

训练自己用这门你所学习的语言来思考

Which brings me on to my third point

也就到了我的第三点

Oh my God! What a beautifully well planned out video this is

天啊 这真是个

完美规划的视频

那我下面的两点

So my next two points are about thinking and speaking to yourself in that language

是关于运用你所学习的语言

自我思考和自我对话的

Now I actually recommend that you start by speaking out loud to yourself in the other language

我实际上建议

你们可以从用那门语言大声地和自己说话开始

I think I mentioned that in a video about conversation, improving your conversation and communication

我想我在一个关于“提升交流对话”的视频里提到过

if you are interested in that then you can watch that video just up there

如果你感兴趣的话

你可以通过上方的链接观看那个视频

However speaking to yourself in the other language is a really really key factor

然而 在学习通过另一门语言进行思考方面

用另一门语言和自己对话

in learning to think in the language

是一个非常非常关键的因素

So,

用西班牙语举个例子

For example with Spanish I'll be driving

我会在开车的时候描述我的动作

and I'll describe the movements that I'm going to be making with the car

我将会把车......

So I'll be like

我会像这样说......

'Conduciendo, conduciendo, voy a girar a la derecha...

CABRÓN QUE TE ARRANCO LA CABEZA, GILIPO-anyway

不管怎样 那就是我所会做的

That it's what I do

or I'll be pottering around my kitchen, cooking and talking to myself about what I'm doing

或者说我会在厨房里溜达

做饭和对自己说

关于我自己正在做的事情

and

你就会开始注意到你自己的错误

you will start to notice your own errors, specially when you hear yourself speaking out loud

特别是当你听见自己大声说话的时候

Once you are comfortable speaking out loud to yourself in private in that additional language

一旦你习惯于私底下大声用另外一门语言对自己说话

接下来就开始思考

Move on to starting to think

现在 我觉得说应该在想之前

Now, I think speaking should come before thinking

But that's just my opinion, everybody learns in different ways

但这只是我个人观点

每个人都通过不同方式学习

I personally think it's easier to spot errors and get comfortable when you are speaking out loud

我认为这更容易发现自己的错误

以及习惯于大声说话

Now, the speaking out loud, we should do in private

大声说话

你应该在私底下

但是 思考

but the thinking I want you to do it everywhere

我想你在每个地方都在做

on the bus, seeing what goes past

在巴士上 看眼前路过的东西

这可以联系到我之前做的一个视频

it can relate to the video I made on how to learn and remember vocabulary which you can watch up here

叫做“怎样学习和记忆词汇”

你可以在上面的链接找到

it's a useful method where you observe everything around you check if you see if you know it in your own chosen language

通过观察你身边的一切事物

是非常有用的方法

然后你看看你是否知道它的意思在你所选择学习的语言中

the full explanation it's in the video and some people have found that really really useful

所有的详细解释都在那个视频中

一些人已经发现非常有趣和有用

I know I found it useful

我自己知道我觉得那是有用的

see if you can apply using a monolingual dictionary to that video

看看你们能不能将单语的词典

运用到那个视频当中

think I recommend using a bilingual one, see if you can do it with an English dictionary

我想我建议的是双语词典

看看你们能否通过英语词典来试试

yeah, so by thinking in English and I'm talking about

是的 用英语来思考

然后我想说的是描述人物

you know describing people, if you see someone walking think to yourself

如果你看到有人在走路

自己思考 那个人在走路

"That man is walking" "He is walking down the street"

他正在沿街而行

观察你的每一个动作

or just go in through your motions

"I'm getting off the bus" "I'm going to go to the shops"

我下了巴士

我将要去商店

in your head

在你的脑海里

you are just starting to immerse yourself in the language

你正开始把自己融入到这个语言里

Ah! That beautiful word! Immerse

oh 那个优美的词汇 “融入”

to immerse yourself

融合你自己

也就导出了我的第五点

Brings me on to point number five which is

也就是‘融入’

immersion

其实这是我最喜欢的词汇之一

and that's actually one of my favorite words

I know I have a lot of favorite words but

我知道我有很多最喜欢的词汇

但“浸入 融入 专心 投入” ... 真好

immersion

immersion

mmm

that's nice, that's a nice word

那是一个好的单词

So immersion is something that you should be doing throughout your learning experience

所以“专心 融入”是你在你的整个学习经历中你应该做的事情

and it's something that you can do whilst multitasking

这是你在同时做几件事情时可以做到的事

which is one of my favorite things

也是我最喜欢做的事情之一

So, when I'm doing something that doesn't require a hundred percent concentration

所以说 在我做一些

不需要百分百集中注意力的事情的时候

比如说 做饭 和 做家务

Like cooking or cleaning

I always have something on in the background

我总会同时播放一些东西

Cleaning, cooking, washing the car, gardening, whatever

不管是做家务 做饭 洗车 还是修剪园艺

whatever any task that allows you to listen to something else at the same time as doing something else

任何可以让你边听边做的事情

Have something on in that language in the background

在后面播放一些用到那种语言的东西

I know I'm saying it as if it's revolutionary but really don't forget to do it

我知道 我说起来这就像是一个全新的办法

但真的 不要忘记去这样做

I know you can waste so much time and miss out on so much learning

我明白 你可能会浪费很多时间

以及错过很多的学习

By, by having it on in the background and not even listening you will be getting used to pronunciation and accents

通过在后面播放这种语言

甚至都不用专门去注意听

你会逐渐习惯发音以及口音

by listening and concentrating on what they are saying you will be familiarizing yourself with certain grammar

然后 通过精听他们在说什么

你会是自己明白熟悉

一些特定的语法

different vocabulary but also you will notice where you are lacking

不同的词汇

但同时 你也会注意到你自己的缺陷是什么

So, if you listen to a radio program about

假如你听的一个电台节目

是关于 摄影的 我总这样说

我能说什么呢

so if you listen to a radio program about politics for example

好吧 假如你听的是一个关于政治的电台节目

我最后一点要强调的是让它变成每天的习惯

My last point is make it daily

Focus on frequency and consistency

注重频率及持续性

Okay, I always say to my students that twenty minutes a day of high quality

我总对我学生说

每天20分钟的高质量

Not even studying, just language acquisition

甚至不算学习

只是语言的接收获取

我有时候都会被一些我说的单词所惊讶到

I sometimes surprise myself with the words that come out of my mouth

每天20分钟高质量的英语学习

Twenty minutes a day of high quality English time

There we are, that sounds more like something Lucy would say

这就对了

这听起来更像Lucy所说的

it's much much much more valuable

（前面所说的方法）会比集中140分钟的学习在一天

更加的有价值

than a hundred and forty minutes all in one day

So,

所以 在总体上做到 融会贯通

Make the general immersion and the thinking and the speaking to yourself

然后 自己思考对话

something that you do throughout your day, make it part of your routine

关于你这一整天所做的事情

让它变成你每天的惯例

Make it become automatic to you

变成对你而言自然而然的事情

You know I sometimes now go for an hour thinking in Spanish

我现在有时候会用西班牙语来思考1小时

or you know thinking out loud in my head in Spanish and then I realize and I go

就是在脑子里用西班牙语自言自语

然后我就会觉得

God!

天哪 我已经说了一个小时的西班牙语了

You know, I just said something, I've just been speaking Spanish the whole time

and it is because I do it so often it becomes automatic

这是因为我经常这样做 所以这也就成为自然而然的事情了

Then

然后呢 你最后要做的

the little tweaks and the little kind of self-help part that you are doing at the end

小小的改进

一个自我提升的部分

which is

就是查找单词的定义

you know, searching definitions for words

working on the grammar that you've identified that you are lacking in

在你所欠缺的语法方面多下功夫

or attempting to expand your vocabulary

或者是尝试拓展你的词汇

that should be short and should be daily

这个过程应当精简以及每天坚持

Right guys, as always I want to know your opinions

好的 和往常一样

我想知道你们的想法

你们都非常的聪明

you guys are a bunch of extremely intelligent minds and

I love, I love hearing your recommendations

我非常喜欢听听你们的建议

and I apply them to my daily life as well

而且我把它们都运用到我每天的生活当中

所以我希望了解到一些让你们

So, I'd love to know something that helped you stop translating into your native language

停止翻译成母语的方法

I'm sure you've got lots to share

我相信你们肯定有很多可以来分享

In my other video where I asked you how many languages you speak

在我另外一个视频中

我问过你们可以说多少门语言

Some of you speak like seven languages which is unbelievable

你们当中有些热你可以说7门语言

简直不可思议

and really awesome really impressive

非常棒 令人印象深刻

很荣幸能有你们这样的学生

honored to have a group of students like you guys

Yes, so please share your recommendations and your experience

所以 请在下方分享你们的建议

以及你们的经历

In the comments below and also constructive criticism it's completely welcome

当然 也非常欢迎有建设性的评判

So if you don't agree with something I say, say it

所以如果你不同意一些我所说的东西

说出来吧 只是请用友好的方式

say it in a nice way, because I like everyone to be respectful here but

因为我希望每个人都在这里得到尊重

我不是英语女神

I'm not the goddess of English

what I say doesn't go

我所说的东西也不是

but I really do hope that I helped you

但我真心希望我可以帮助到你们

and that's it for the video today

这就是今天的视频了

Don't forget to check out Lingoda and see if it's for you

别忘了去看看Lingoda

看它是否符合你

The link is in the description box with my code ENGLUCY6

链接就在下方的 “视频描述”里

以及我的折扣码 ENGLUCY6

and don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media

也别忘了和在所有的社交媒体上给予我关注

I've got my Facebook, my Instagram and my Twitter

这有我的 facebook, instagram, twitter

I will see you soon for another lesson

我们在下次的课程中再见