Once in the subway of Shanghai, maybe about two years ago, I try to think in English for curiosity, look around and describe all the things pop into my mind, honestly, this is the most freaking moments I experienced in my life, that is, suddenly, I travelled through a time machine and back to a young child, lost all the words and dumbed to depict things particular, and full of questions similar as ‘what type of this cloth he wear?’, ‘how to say that silver long metallic thing?’, ‘oh my god, what can I do?’
As a non-native speaker, don’t have environment to use English everyday, all the learning processes are blindly and inefficiently, stretch vocabulary, recite articles, listen broadcasts, read books, which improve my English little by little, but cost more and more time as I want to one step further, worse still, immersion maybe is the only way to learn spoken english, which is deficient to me
To solve this problem, I make two plans:
English writing: this is a excellent way to use English everyday, help me stimulate English words which don’t have chance to use, after reading some books about English writing, I finally made my mind to start English writing, and later, a English teacher to help correcting grammar problem is a good and necessary solution
English mind: there are two way to apparently express your mind in English, one is translating your native language in your mind to English, which is slow but you would familiar with, another is force yourself think in English and directly express it whatever you have, to training my mind, I force myself to think in English as much as I can
And finally, this two methods are synergistically, when I do English writing, I force myself think in English word by word sentence by sentence, otherwise when I use English thinking, I use it to find what I can write and how to improve my writing
