How to start thinking in your TL?
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 6:12 pm
Any ideas how to make this process easier than only forcing yourself to do this?
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Cavesa wrote:I believe my usual answer to various questions applies again: lots of input. Especially listening. And large doses once or twice per week (like 4 hours in a row) are much much better than twenty minutes per day (the usual "a bit every day is better than cramming" advice is absolutely misplaced here, based on my experience. I certainly cannot get immersed so fast.). You basically need your brain to get used to the situation, to get immersed, you must not give it the time needed for translation, you need it to get carried in the current, ideally thinking about the tv series plot instead of language learning. Similarily, it can work with reading, but I think listening is much better for this.
When I start watching tv series in a new language, I soon notice I keep thinking in the langauge even after the last episode for that day ends. I keep thinking in the langauge usually only until I realize what I am doing But the time gets longer and longer with practice.
Soclydeza wrote:Lots of exposure. Once your mind assimilates a word or phrase and it becomes automatic, it will want to take the path of least resistance and use the word/phrase of your TL in place of those of your NL (if the word/phrase seems to make more sense in your TL).
Voytek wrote:Any ideas how to make this process easier than only forcing yourself to do this?
This is something that might vary between individuals. I for one find the mentalese/language of thought hypothesis highly counterintuitive, at least with respect to conscious/surface-level thoughts, and I actually find it near-impossible to force myself not to articulate my conscious thoughts in a spoken language, even if the hypothesis is true and this process is just me restating thoughts that have already been formulated in mentalese.smallwhite wrote:Like aokoye, however, I don't think we think in any particular language. So the process of thinking in TL will be forced, because thinking in any language will be force.
vonPeterhof wrote:... I actually find it near-impossible to force myself not to articulate my conscious thoughts in a spoken language, even if the hypothesis is true and this process is just me restating thoughts that have already been formulated in mentalese.
Voytek wrote:Any ideas how to make this process easier than only forcing yourself to do this?