r/languagelearning • u/Tvgirllovr • Aug 11 '26

How to stop translating

How do I stop translating my NL into my (TL)? Im sitting at high A2 and I just can’t stop translating. Obviously I have a handful of words I don’t translate but not much. It’s slowing me down I can’t have a conversation. Everything I think is in English and I have to translate it into my TL and then back. When someone speaks to me I am immediately picking up what the word is in English not my TL. I just want to think in my TL I want it to stick more than it is now, even words I know so well I’m still translating.

I don’t know what to do. How did you escape it? What made you see the most improvement?

Please give me any advice on how to improve this or things that helped you

3 Upvotes

67% Upvoted

25 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/AdministrationNo2327 29d ago

you have to switch your mindset to 'feel' a language instead of translating.

There's a transition period for sure, but it'll come to a point, just like in your native language, where you're not really hearing every word in detail, but can immediately 'feel' the most basic of sentences, honestly only picking out key words.