Learning a new language can be an exciting or frightening experience and it will depend on several factors which one it’s going to be for you. Whichever reason pulls or pushes you to learn it there are a few things you need to pay attention to in order to better grasp how a language is used.
Here I will talk about one in particular, the thinking part, and I will speak of my personal experience and how I managed to think in a language I didn’t grow up speaking.
Thinking in English doesn’t, or rather didn’t, come naturally to me, I had to “force” it at the beginning, not letting my brain go to a Spanish word first. It did take some practice but before long I was using English words first and after some time I realized I wasn’t translating anything, whether I was thinking in Spanish or English or both at the same time (yeah, it can be a bit strange when that happens).
But, How long did it take me? And, How much I did I know when I started to use English in my thoughts?
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