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Old July 10, 2014, 06:18 PM
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Spanish is clearly I am not nearly as good at it as I am with English. I use Spanish daily. Sometimes when I have to communicate something complicated in Spanish, my thoughts go to English. I try to sort it out and translate it to Spanish. I think when I had less knowledge, I did this a lot more. If you are familiar with Spanish sentence structure and vocabulary, you will soon get out of this translation mode, and speak the language directly without thinking in English. It' s easier, and more efficient that way.

When I translate between an English speaker and a Spanish speaker, my mind is in constant translation mode. It can be an exhausting thing to do especially if when Spanish is the lingua franca Portuguese or Italian speakers.
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