[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":238},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fpt-br-content-podcasts-pare-de-traduzir-na-sua-cabeca":3},{"type":4,"data":5},"podcast",{"slug":6,"skill":7,"title":8,"meta_title":9,"meta_description":10,"description":11,"level":12,"youtube_id":13,"duration":14,"duration_seconds":15,"published_at":16,"updated_at":17,"thumbnail":18,"chapters":23,"expressions":45,"practice":66,"transcript":69,"published":234,"available_locales":235,"slug_localized":237},"stop-translating-in-your-head","podcasts","Pare de traduzir na sua cabeça: 3 hábitos para pensar em inglês","Pare de traduzir na sua cabeça: 3 hábitos para pensar em inglês | Podcast da FluencyRoad","Mia e Leo compartilham três hábitos para pensar em inglês: aprender blocos de palavras, falar sozinho e contornar a palavra que você não sabe. Com transcrição.","Você monta as frases primeiro na sua língua e depois traduz palavra por palavra? Mia e Leo compartilham três pequenos hábitos que ajudam a pensar em inglês: aprender blocos de palavras (chunks), falar sozinho e contornar uma palavra que você não conhece. 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Last summer I was in a coffee shop in London, and I prepared my whole order in my own language first.",{"speaker":74,"text":75},"Mia","Of course you did.",{"speaker":71,"text":77},"Then I translated it, word by word, in my head. When I was finally ready to speak, the barista was already serving the next person.",{"speaker":74,"text":79},"That's the translation traffic jam. Your idea is ready, but it's stuck on the road between two languages.",{"speaker":71,"text":81},"So, a question for you. Do you build sentences in your language first, and then translate them? Then this episode is for you.",{"speaker":74,"text":83},"Hi, I'm Mia.",{"speaker":71,"text":85},"And I'm Leo. Welcome to FluencyRoad.",{"speaker":74,"text":87},"In the next eight minutes, you'll learn three small habits that help you think in English, with sentences you can use today.",{"speaker":71,"text":89},"It's a B1 episode. You don't need to understand every word. If you get the idea, that's perfect.",{"speaker":74,"text":91},"And if you like the episode, a like helps us a lot.",{"speaker":71,"text":93},"So, what do we mean by translating in your head?",{"speaker":74,"text":95},"You have an idea in your language. You look for the English words one by one, and then you try to put them in the right order.",{"speaker":71,"text":97},"And that takes forever.",{"speaker":74,"text":99},"It's like taking two buses to cross one street. You wait at the first stop, then you change, then you wait again.",{"speaker":71,"text":101},"And sometimes you miss the second bus completely.",{"speaker":74,"text":103},"Exactly. That's the moment when your mind goes blank, and you say nothing at all.",{"speaker":71,"text":105},"Why does our brain do this, though?",{"speaker":74,"text":107},"When you're nervous, you run back to your first language. It's natural.",{"speaker":71,"text":109},"And most learners do it at the beginning. It's not a mistake. It's just a long route.",{"speaker":74,"text":111},"So our goal today is not to stop it forever. Our goal is to find a shorter route, a little more often every week.",{"speaker":71,"text":113},"Habit number one. Learn chunks, not single words.",{"speaker":74,"text":115},"A chunk is a group of words that we usually use together. Like \"Can I get\" or \"It depends on\".",{"speaker":71,"text":117},"Think of a sandwich. You can buy bread, cheese and tomato and make it yourself. Or you can buy one that's already made.",{"speaker":74,"text":119},"Single words are the bread and the cheese. A chunk is the ready sandwich. You don't build it. You just pick it up.",{"speaker":71,"text":121},"In that coffee shop, I translated four pieces: \"I want\", \"a coffee\", \"small\", \"to take away\". Four pieces, four decisions.",{"speaker":74,"text":123},"With one chunk, you say \"Can I get a small coffee to take away?\" One piece, and almost no decisions.",{"speaker":71,"text":125},"Okay, I admit it. That's faster. Give us a few more chunks.",{"speaker":74,"text":127},"Sure. \"I'm thinking about\", as in \"I'm thinking about a new job\". And \"That makes sense\", as in \"Oh, that makes sense.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":129},"My favorite is \"It depends\". It saves me in every conversation. \"Do you like spicy food?\" \"Hmm, it depends!\"",{"speaker":74,"text":131},"Ha. And when you hear a chunk in a series or a song, don't stop at every word.",{"speaker":71,"text":133},"So what do I do instead?",{"speaker":74,"text":135},"Write the whole group in your notes, and say it out loud a few times.",{"speaker":71,"text":137},"I call that stealing. When someone says a nice chunk, I steal it. Politely.",{"speaker":74,"text":139},"Good stealing. My last one was \"Sorry, I didn't catch that.\" Now I use it every week.",{"speaker":74,"text":141},"Habit number two. Talk to yourself in simple English.",{"speaker":71,"text":143},"Wait. Talk to myself? My neighbors will think I'm crazy.",{"speaker":74,"text":145},"Then whisper. Be a sports commentator, but for your own life. \"And now she opens the fridge. Oh no, there's no milk!\"",{"speaker":71,"text":147},"Okay, let me try. \"Leo walks into the kitchen. He's very hungry. He's going to make pasta.\"",{"speaker":74,"text":149},"See? You didn't translate anything. You looked at the scene, and you said it in English.",{"speaker":71,"text":151},"And the words were easy. Is that the secret?",{"speaker":74,"text":153},"That's the secret. Small and true is better than long and perfect.",{"speaker":71,"text":155},"Okay. Give me some chunks for my little show.",{"speaker":74,"text":157},"Try \"Now I'm going to\", \"I need to\", and \"Where did I put my keys?\"",{"speaker":71,"text":159},"I did this while I was washing the dishes. The first day was strange. After a week, the English came a little faster. Not magic, but faster.",{"speaker":74,"text":161},"I do it on the bus, in my head. I describe the people around me. \"That man has a huge umbrella. It isn't raining.\" It's very relaxing.",{"speaker":71,"text":163},"That's a little weird, Mia.",{"speaker":74,"text":165},"It's in my head, Leo. Nobody knows.",{"speaker":71,"text":167},"And how long do you do it?",{"speaker":74,"text":169},"One or two minutes is enough to start. In the shower, in the car, while you cook. Every day is better than one long day.",{"speaker":71,"text":171},"Habit number three. When you don't know a word, go around it.",{"speaker":74,"text":173},"This is when a lot of people stop talking. They need one word, they can't find it, and the whole conversation stops.",{"speaker":71,"text":175},"But think of a locked door. If the front door is locked, you don't sleep in the street. You go around the house and use the back door.",{"speaker":74,"text":177},"So you describe the thing. \"It's a thing you use to cut paper.\" \"It's like a cup, but bigger.\" \"It's the opposite of noisy.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":179},"Last week I forgot the word for that bowl with holes, for pasta. So I said, \"the bowl with holes, for the pasta water\".",{"speaker":74,"text":181},"And the word is \"colander\".",{"speaker":71,"text":183},"\"Colander.\" Thanks. Last week the word came back ten minutes later, of course.",{"speaker":74,"text":185},"Of course. But the conversation didn't stop, and that's what matters. And you can always ask, \"What's the word for this?\" Most people are happy to help.",{"speaker":71,"text":187},"There's one more trap. Some expressions don't work word by word. If you translate them, people look at you strangely.",{"speaker":74,"text":189},"Oh, I have a good one. In Spanish, something very expensive costs \"an eye of the face\". In Portuguese, \"the eyes of the face\".",{"speaker":71,"text":191},"I said that in English once. My friend looked at my face, very worried.",{"speaker":74,"text":193},"In English, it \"costs an arm and a leg\". Different body, same idea. So when it's an expression, learn the English chunk, not the translation.",{"speaker":71,"text":195},"And look: describing a word is not a failure. It's extra English.",{"speaker":74,"text":197},"Okay, time for a quick word tour. Five words and expressions from today.",{"speaker":71,"text":199},"First, \"chunk\". We know this one now: words that travel together, like a little team.",{"speaker":74,"text":201},"For example, \"Can I get\" is a chunk. You can say, \"I learned a useful chunk from a song today.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":203},"Second, \"go blank\". When your mind goes blank, you suddenly can't think of anything.",{"speaker":74,"text":205},"For example, \"In the interview, my mind went blank.\" Or, \"I always go blank when someone asks my phone number.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":207},"Third, \"narrate\". To narrate is to say what is happening, like a commentator or a storyteller.",{"speaker":74,"text":209},"You can say, \"I narrate my morning in English while I make coffee.\" Or, \"My grandfather loves to narrate old stories.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":211},"Fourth, \"an arm and a leg\". When something costs an arm and a leg, it's very expensive.",{"speaker":74,"text":213},"\"That phone costs an arm and a leg.\" Or, \"Rent in this city costs an arm and a leg.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":215},"And fifth, \"fluent\". Fluent means you can speak easily, without stopping all the time. Not perfect. Easily.",{"speaker":74,"text":217},"Say it with me: \"I'm not perfect, but I'm fluent enough to order coffee.\" Or, \"She's fluent in three languages.\"",{"speaker":71,"text":219},"Here's your mission for today. Choose one small routine, like making coffee or getting dressed.",{"speaker":74,"text":221},"Narrate it in five short sentences, out loud or in a whisper. Use one chunk, like \"Now I'm going to\".",{"speaker":71,"text":223},"If one word is missing, don't stop. Go around it. Describe it.",{"speaker":74,"text":225},"Quick recap. One, learn chunks: the ready sandwich. Two, talk to yourself, like a commentator. Three, when a word is missing, use the back door.",{"speaker":71,"text":227},"In the comments, write one line like this: \"Right now I'm making tea, and next I'm going to call my mom.\"",{"speaker":74,"text":229},"And to hear chunks the way people really say them, try the free dictation tool at fluencyroad.com\u002Ftools\u002Fdictation. You listen, and you write what you hear.",{"speaker":71,"text":231},"That's it for today. Go and steal some chunks. See you next time!",{"speaker":74,"text":233},"Bye!",true,{"es":236,"pt-br":237},"deja-de-traducir-en-tu-cabeza","pare-de-traduzir-na-sua-cabeca",1793062063775]