#cra5htig3r

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young harnessBOT
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Please be patient

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lethal latch
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Pretty much that. The further along you get, the more automatically you can express yourself

solemn jacinth
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Try your best to avoid doing it, but it's pretty inevitable in the early stages of learning a language, especially when you don't have immersion

mossy sleet
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I do think it's a thing that happens as you become more proficient, but that doesn't mean you can't train it from the start

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an exercise I used to do was sitting in my room, pointing to objects while repeating its French translation over and over again

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so if I saw my bed and thought 'bed' before translating it to « le lit », I would focus on my bed and just repeat « le lit » to me over and over and over again

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at some point, when I do see a bed, I don't think 'bed', I think « lit »

dense breach
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immerse yourself in, say, an action game/shooter but change its language to french.

you'll have a lot of action and little time to decide. The information relayed to you is in french and so instead of translating you'll have to just interpret what you've heard and act on it.

Warzone helped me greatly with this.

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not enough time to think of English equivalents, only enough to act on what you've understood

cloud shore
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That's interesting

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I've heard of changing the language of your movies/games but not picking an intense game

solemn jacinth
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It's super helpful

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Ideally playing with someone so you have to communicate fast as well

bitter lark
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Even just having a chill game in another language will get you used to certain vocab as it keeps coming up - especially since you usually have visual context clues. But it's also worth noting that translating in your head isn't going to suddenly make you learn slower or worse - whatever encourages you to get immersed in the language more is worth more than trying to brute force it.

exotic ginkgo
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Merci beaucoup pour votre aide! 🙏

bitter lark
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Sometimes it helps to just zone out a bit and accept that you won't understand everything, and just go for the vibes. Not all the time though, lol