TRANSLATE THE MEANING

 

Translate the meaning

 

If you are native English speaker and you want to learn to speak Spanish as a new language, you need to install a Spanish-Spanish dictionary into your brain.

 

Separately, you hold an ongoing English-English dictionary in your brain.

 

You understand English in English and Spanish in Spanish independently.

 

There is not much necessary comparison between English and Spanish except you are linguist or a language teacher.

 

Bilingual speakers go the same path.

 

It is ok to have an English-Spanish dictionary in your brain at an early stage of a language-learning.

 

However, try to avoid translating a word by a word.

 

You need to translate the meaning.

 

Meaning is essential but the words to tell the meaning is a form.

 

What you need to do is speak and write more as a native language speaker does.

 

If you do not know a word “beverage”, you can explain like “something to drink”.

 

By trying to explain a new word with the words that you already know, you are likely to have more opportunities to speak and write a language that you are learning consistently.

 

This makes you grow in a language-learning.

Thanks for reading,

Hilano Aquihisa