Think in English Tips - Monolingual vs Bilingual English Dictionary | Go Natural English

Hey hey hey, what's up? It's your favorite American English teacher here

My name is Gabby if you didn't already know and this is go natural English today

I want to share with you some tips for using a

monolingual dictionary

in English that means English to English

not English to Spanish English to Portuguese English to Arabic English to Turkish or whatever your native language may be this is the

universal English dictionary monolingual means one language English to English

So it's very important that you start using a monolingual dictionary

and you throw out your bilingual dictionary because we need to develop your

thinking skills in English

Why?

because when you're always

Translating from English to your native language from your native language back into English it takes a long time

So if you're participating in a conversation in English or trying to participate you can't just be like hey guys wait wait wait

Can you just stop?

while

I check my dictionary because I'm not sure what you said so everybody just stop talking because I need to translate this real quick

Okay, got it now. Let me translate my thoughts from my native language back into English, okay guys

I'm ready to actually respond now. It doesn't work like that especially

in fast conversations

maybe in a meeting or like a

high-powered business situation you need to be ready to respond and in order to respond you first have to

Understand so we need to get your thinking skills going in

English fast the best way to do that or one of the best ways is to use a monolingual dictionary

Now some people say

But Gabby, it doesn't work when I look up a word in a monolingual dictionary

It just gives me more

Words that I don't know so I still don't understand the word that I looked up and now I feel even more

Confused because all the other words are new and I'm confused and now I feel really dumb and bad

And why did I even try guys?

Relax, it's gonna happen. Do you remember the last time in your language in your native language that you didn't know?

What a word meant I'll give you an example in English okay. I learned a new word the other day

amortization

What does it mean? Well I?

Kinda sorta thought I knew what it meant

But I looked it up and even after I looked it up in an English English dictionary

I did something else I looked for examples of how it is used on

Websites, and I did something else I looked for images

Through Google Images so I googled this word

And then I looked at pictures to see how it was visually

Described and this is an awesome way for you to clarify any doubts about a new word is

Use Google images and also look at how the word is used in

Context on other websites so that you have a variety of diverse

and

numerous sources of information not only your one monolingual dictionary

But now you have the whole internet. Oh my gosh. The Internet's pretty awesome

I don't know if you've heard of it

but it's a great place to find out more information about words and

meanings of things you can learn anything on the internet even English, okay, so

Use all of the tools out there and don't give up if you don't succeed

Right away you have to try and try again

If you don't get the meaning right away just

Breathe and keep looking for information, or you know just let it go because it actually takes several

recurrences of the word several times

to learn a word

By heart to really understand the meaning and to remember that word so it's okay

It's okay, if at first you don't

Quite understand the meaning of the word, and you can't remember it at all

So just relax and keep going with English keep reading keep listening

And maybe make a note of those words

That you'd like to look up that you'd like to learn more about and trust me with this

Positive attitude and not giving up of just keeping going day after day you're going to improve quickly

You're already improving. You're watching go natural English you're doing the right thing

So thank you so much for watching if you liked this

Tip on how to learn English how to think in English?

then you would love my video on how to stop translating in your head and

Think in English right up there. You can watch it and make sure if you have not subscribed to go natural English

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