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How to Think in English: Stop Translating in Your Head

Level B1–B218:35 minHosts Maya, Leo & Nina
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What you'll learn

Your brain is not slow — it's just taking the long road. Every sentence goes: hear English, translate it, build your answer, translate it back, then speak. Four steps for every sentence. No wonder you freeze.

In this episode, Maya and Leo give you the 6 steps to start thinking directly in English — no translating, no freezing, no four-step journey for every sentence.

Made for intermediate learners (CEFR B1–B2). You'll learn: labeling your world, narrating your day, questioning yourself in English, going around missing words, learning phrases as chunks, allowing imperfect thinking, pause fillers that buy your brain five seconds, and the 7-day brain rewiring plan.

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Label your world in English
Narrate your day as it happens
Go around missing words
Learn phrases as chunks, not words
Pause fillers that buy your brain five seconds

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