How to Think in English (Stop Translating in Your Head) · POC English
本视频讲解如何停止用母语翻译，直接用英语思考以提高流利度。适合练习英语思维和口语表达。
In this video, I am going to help you take a very important step towards speaking English fluently.
在这段视频中，我将帮助你迈出迈向流利说英语的重要一步。
So watch this video carefully until the end.
请仔细观看这个视频，直到最后。
My name is Matty and welcome to this slow English podcast.
我叫马蒂，欢迎收听这个以慢速英语播讲的播客节目。
Let me ask you a question.
让我问你一个问题。
When you are alone with yourself and you are quiet and you are thinking,
当你独自一人、安静地思考时……
you hear an inner voice.
你会听到一个来自内心的声音。
That inner voice, what language does it speak?
那个内心的声音，它使用的是哪种语言呢？
Think about it.
仔细想想吧。
You are alone, you are thinking and you hear that inner voice.
你独自一人，正在思考着，这时你听到了自己内心的声音。
I would say that is in your mother tongue.
我想说的是，那句话是用你的母语写的。
If you are from Italy, you hear that in Italian.
如果你来自意大利，那么你会用意大利语来表达这个意思。
If you are from China, you hear that in Chinese.
如果你来自中国，你会用中文听到这句话。
If you can shift that inner voice from your mother tongue to English,
如果你能把那个“内在的声音”从你的母语转换成英语的话……
you will become fluent.
你会变得非常流利（能够熟练使用该语言）。
I am guaranteeing this.
我对此予以保证。
This is my promise to you.
这是我向你们做出的承诺。
So in this video, we're going to figure out how to do that.
在这段视频中，我们将探讨如何实现这一点。
First, let's understand why it happens.
首先，让我们了解一下为什么会出现这种情况。
Let me paint you a little picture here.
让我给你描绘一下当时的情景吧。
Here's your brain and this is your mother tongue and next to it is English.
这是你的大脑，这是你的母语，而它的旁边是英语。
When you want to say something or when you want to think about something,
当你想要说些什么，或者当你想要思考某件事的时候……
when you want to express yourself, your brain reaches out to whichever is closest of the two, which is closer to your brain right now,
当你想要表达自己的想法时，你的大脑会选择离你当前位置更近的那个选项（即那个在物理上更接近你大脑的选项）。
it's your mother tongue.
这是你的母语。
So your brain reaches to your mother tongue and then your mother tongue reaches to English.
因此，你的大脑会先调用你的母语，然后再通过母语来理解英语。
Between English and your mother tongue, something important happens.
在英语和你的母语之间，会发生一些重要的变化（或：英语和你的母语之间存在着某种重要的互动/影响）。
It is called translation because from your mother tongue, you get that idea.
之所以将其称为“翻译”，是因为你需要从自己的母语中提取所需的信息（即表达某个意思的词语或句子）。
You have to translate to English.
当然，你需要将这段文字翻译成英文。
From English, you have to get it back to your mother tongue and your brain will then understand it.
你需要将英语内容转换回自己的母语，这样你的大脑才能真正理解这些信息。
So each time you want to say something or you want to understand something,
所以每次当你想要表达什么或者想要理解某件事的时候，
your brain reaches to your mother tongue.
你的大脑会自动选择使用你的母语来进行思考或表达。
Your mother tongue reaches to English.
你的母语与英语之间存在一定的关联（或者说，你可以用母语来理解英语）。
Translation happens and then it reaches to your brain.
信息被翻译后，才会传达到你的大脑中。
Translation in itself is the biggest blocker of fluency
翻译本身其实是阻碍语言流畅性的最大因素。
because translation inherently involves delay.
因为翻译本身就存在延迟的问题。
When your brain starts translating something, there
当你的大脑开始尝试理解或“翻译”某些信息时……
is a delay because it has to go from one language to another and then from another language to another.
这种延迟是由于信息需要从一种语言转换成另一种语言，然后再从另一种语言转换成另一种语言所导致的。
There's this exchange and the exchange creates delay.
发生了这样一次交流，而这次交流导致了延迟。
When you are speaking, if you want to be fluent, what you need to do is to eliminate that delay.
当你说话时，如果想让自己的表达更加流利，就需要消除这种语言表达上的延迟（即说话速度过慢或思考时间过长所导致的停顿）。
That delay kills your fluency and that delay is caused by translation.
这种延迟会破坏你的语言流畅性，而这种延迟正是由翻译过程造成的。
So you need to destroy that step.
因此，你需要消除那个步骤（即取消那个环节或步骤）。