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フィーリックス

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I need help, how do I stop translating in my head from Japanese to English. Because I can't help but do that, so I can make sense of the Japanese to myself,Ive heard to cut out English in that process of understanding the Japanese.

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Will972

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This will sound like pretty obvious I know, but I transitioned to think only in the language I'm studying (in my case I study English and Japanese) by just practicing it, having imaginary conversations in my mind in the target language, and by being well aware when I started translating so I could stop it. At one point in time it became natural, and sometimes even now it has reached a point that when sometimes (although rare but it has happened) I'm asked for something, I reply in the language I was thinking at that moment lol.