Chatterbox #260 – Where would you be…
Posted by Andrew Bates
21 Jan, 2021
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made a couple of different...
Everyone goes through the stage of language learning when they find themselves constantly translating their target language into their native one. When do people get past that stage and start to think in English? In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew and Jeremy share their best methods for surpassing this plateau.
Fun facts
Have you read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? Even if you can’t read it in its original French, you can probably find it in your native language. It is thought to be the most widely translated novel, having been rendered into 361 languages and dialects!
Expressions included in the study guide
- To know [something] all too well
- A take
- Magic solution
- To bounce ideas off [someone]
- Muscle memory
- To trust the process
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