![]() just for the sake of saying something).Įven if you are not introverted, you may not have enough time to find the right expression in a conversation. Introverts don’t like to join a conversation when they have nothing essential to add to it (i.e. There are! Of course, the first one that comes to (my) mind is that if you are introverted (like me), you simply may not have “anything to say” in a conversation. Are there any advantages in comparison to a real conversation? I’ve done enough thinking in Czech I don’t learn anything new by doing that. Whenever I see something that could theoretically be hard for me to talk about in English, I just start thinking about it in English. My mother tongue is Czech, but I changed the primary language of thinking to English. You do all that internal speaking anyway, so why don’t you just try to use a different language? Instead of speaking to someone, speak to yourself. So we come to the original topic of this article. The problem is: how do you practise when there are no native speakers around? As with everything else, being good at something requires practice. The art of using vocabulary actively is the art of being able to find the right word fast enough. It is way too common for people who are able to understand 99% of what other people in a foreign language say not to be able to express a simple thought because they just “can’t find the right words”. Probably the hardest thing in language learning is to get your passive vocabulary to become active. How is the inner voice useful for language learning? Common thoughts such as “I must go to the doctor tomorrow”, “I wonder if it is enough”, or “I’ll get off at the next station” are virtually always expressed using words. ![]() Nevertheless, most of the thinking process we do is most succinctly expressed using a natural language. If you look at a picture, you don’t translate all you see into words -there’s a reason why we say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Of course, there are other ways of thinking: you can think in terms of a visual representation of the object you want to think about, to mention just the most common way. the “conversation with yourself” you produce when thinking using a language. ![]() It is the inner voice you “hear” while thinking, i.e. T here is one method I’ve been using for years for every single language I learn: the so called “internal monologue” or “inner voice”. #People without inner monologue how to#It will teach you how to avoid mistakes with commas, prepositions, irregular verbs, and much more. ![]() Tip: See my list of the Most Common Mistakes in English. ![]()
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