How do I stop translating in my head?

You do not stop by deciding to; you stop by reusing the same phrases until they arrive already in English. Practicing the same handful of sentence patterns across several situations, until they stop feeling assembled, is what shortens the gap between thinking and speaking.

Translation fades in patches rather than all at once, and you notice it by accident: a sentence comes out before you remember deciding to say it. To speed that up, reuse the same ten sentence patterns until they are boring, and change only the content inside them. The pattern stops being translated first; the new words inside it take longer, which is why reusing structures beats collecting fresh vocabulary.

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