This is why the school system fails us spanish speakers. They teach us how to translate it. They teach us how to read Spanish, but translate in English. I love the Spanish language, and I plan to pursue it, but i need to get this issue. Thanks for the video

I make myself read my Bible in Spanish only. It really has forced me to think in Spanish a lot more! It was tough at first, but It has paid of tremendously! I went to a Spanish only Church Sunday, and I understood everything!!! They understood me too! Thank you for such awesome videos and lessons you don't learn in the classroom!!1

This is why people post sticky notes on things with Spanish words so they stop seeing items as an English word. Gracias!

I was literally just thinking that I need to start not thinking in English and here you come right on time 😊

And then BOOM, the moment you start dreaming in Spanish! ;)

"stop looking up the definitions in English" yeah, that is too true, it hindered me when learning Russian and I'm doing everything I can to not repeat the mistake while learning Spanish (super late but love your videos)

Gracias por la ayuda! 😀👍🏾

This part always trips me up because I have to think in English first pause translate in my head, then speak. Definitely difficult because stuff doesn’t directly translate

I finally started thinking in Spanish when I moved to Colombia! So cool that you moved to Miami, I may move there in the near future! Great video!

Right now I can’t imagine getting to a level where I don’t have to translate in my head. Love the channel bro!

I have taken Spanish my entire life. Including two semesters for my undergraduate degree. For my graduate degree I was taking Latin. And one of the things that the professor said was to think in the language that you're learning. That one concept was probably the advice I needed the entire time.

When I use more spanish, whether it’s reading/singing/listening/writing- I stop thinking in English 🥰 it’s an amazing feeling!

Eres una inspiración. Ya tienes otro suscriptor. Saludos.✌

Miami is where I want to live because I want to speak and be around Spanish!!!! I love using word reference especially the forums because you always have various native speakers on there to correct you!

I needed to watch this video today! Thank you “stop trying to make your Spanish sound like English”

I use deepl and spanishdict, but ive always been looking for a channel where the person says the sentence in English and then in spanish kind of how a bilingual child is raised

I would STRONGLY recommend Contexto Reverso. It's like Linguee (which yes, is great) but you can play the phrases with an audio voice. It also gives you a nice range of synonyms in the search too!

Creo que tienes toda la razón. Al principio, intentaba usar un diccionario sólo en español pero fue demasiado difícil. Pero ahora que he aprendido más, tal vez puedo intentarlo otra vez.

Great video, as always. I always tell people to stop mentally translating words, and instead focus on deliberately thinking of the word or phrase in Spanish. I liken it to how a baby learns language.

Those are great ideas. I often find myself looking for English translations when I come across a word I’m unfamiliar with. I’ll use this concept from now on.

I'm struggling to get past pausing when I'm speaking, because I am afraid of making a gramatical mistake or get the preterit vs imperfect wrong. My friend told me to forget about it if you make a mistake. Just talk. It's better to talk and make a mistake without pausing, than keep pausing. What do you think? How did you get past that stage?

Great suggestions! I love the idea of looking up meanings Spanish to Spanish.

Yes this is what I’ve been trying to do stop thinking 🤔 in English

I have a hard time reading spanish and not translating in my head. Do you have any tips?

i just started to learn spanish and I'm glad I realized this early. seeing this video lets me know i'm on the right track.

This is exactly what I'm going through rigj now. You hit the Nail so hard bro! You my teacher right now. HONESTLY.

This is what I've been trying to do for so long! Thanks fammo

OMG when you said to look up the definition but in Spanish my brain just exploded because I just realized that you could do that, dang your smart like that thinking out of the box

Boom! Amazing concept! Leaning to learn spanish in SPANISH! AWESOME VIDEO.

¡Me encanta sus videos! I just found your channel and your content is so helpful, I think I've learned more from one of your videos than I have all year in Spanish class in school hahah

Preciate this extremely helpful. Been checking your vids for a while, it's been helping me speak more. I've had an understanding of it for quite some time, but I haven't always been able to express myself in my characteristics. Thanks bro keep putting it out there.

I’ve been fearful of doing this but I do need to do it ! Great video bro you definitely feel our learning pains...Keep them coming👍🏾!

Es interesante que ahora tienes acento incluso en inglés, solo un poquito! Quiero ser como tú pero con un acento colombiano 😊 Eres una inspiración 👏🏼

Yo acabo de asistir este vídeo e ¡absolutamente estoy de acuerdo! Tu eres la primera persona que había dicho lo que yo había sido diciendo para los últimos 30 años... Gracias..👍 (Aprendí el español hace 35 años)

This is soooo hard! I always translate in my head English to Spanish (it's a crutch)- thank you so much for this video.

That is so smart I never thought of this!!!!! Thank you so much 🔥🔥😭🔥👏🏾👏🏾

This seems like a very useful video. Thanks so much!

This is the answer I’ve been looking for. Thank youuuuuu. I was saying to myself if I don’t know the Spanish word how would I know what it means. I have been learning Spanish in a classroom for 10 years now. And I’ve finally found the answer to speak in Spanish without translating from English.

Those were powerful tips laid out quickly. Thanks!

This actually really helped me. llevo 6 años aprendiendo español y i’ve been doing it all wrong! lately i’ve been focusing on grammar, thinking in spanish and reading and listening to spanish. this is very very helpful gracias!💗🌸

Que lo que! 'mano!! You are the person I have been looking for , someone with a shared experience. I have already learned so much in a few days just watching your videos. It's one of the reasons I moved to Miami. Aye por favor! Do NOT stop making these videos! Good looking out! Diablo!

When I try to speak in Spanish I think in English and this is what discourages me. I’m happy that you made this video. Thank you!!!!

I should have know this would help me stop thinking in English but it really did not click until I saw this video!! Thank you so much and I love your videos!

Loco yo aprendí español como los dominicanos también. Y todo lo que dice es la verdad más o menos. Sigue haciendo lo que hace. Tato maní

as usual great stuff here como siempre buen material para la discusión y el aprendizaje

I was listening to you and accidentally translating to Spanish in my head haha. I do that too much. It's like both languages are going in my head at all times. Not sure if other bilingual people have this issue. I get what you are saying. I actually use these techniques teaching vocabulary in my ESL class.

Really good tips. I have been learning Spanish forever now and discovered that "thinking in English " is one of my problems

This is such a brilliant idea. No more googling English to Spanish for me!!

Damn, great idea! Your videos are awesome.

Your awesome I'm a new Subbie and I love every vlog you post.😊😊

Excellent tips my friend!

this is GREAT just what i was wanting. actually good advice. thanks

Muchas gracias!

I like your style in your teaching. I'm rolling with you all the Bay Area (Cali)....

Thank you so much for this informative video!! and yes I've absolutely been enjoying all of your recent uploads!

Enjoyed the video, thanks for the tips

You hit the nail on the head for me. I struggle with this. I know the words but want to put them in English order.

Use LingQ. You can read short stories, view every single word in English and listen to the story. Simply amazing. My Spanish has skyrocketed. I’m not being paid to say this and have no affiliation other than being a user.

I loved this video! Gracias por ayudarme.

Hermano I def appreciate your videos. I moved to Miami and work on the beach and it’s all Spanish. I have no choice but to better my Spanish. Moved out here by myself for work. Now I’m making new friends and everyone speak Spanish. You motivated me even more. Would be cool to network

Your give great tips and information !

¡Hermano bien hecho!

Gonna try this! Gracias amigo

Dude great tip for checking the words meaning in Spanish! Thank you!

Great pointers! Thanx! (Gracias!)

Gracias por tu ayuda. Soy un principante y tu contenido me ha ayudado mucho. Soy feliz con tu programa.

just starting to learn @49, thanks for a different way to approach the learning process

Ayeeee super inspiring to see someone from IL !

Yo quiero pensar tanto en español! Muchas gracias Rickie!

I award you a trophy for your innovative paradigm

Another tip; when using translation tools, avoid copy/paste. Force yourself at all cost to type out every word and double-check each word thrice! This has helped me greatly by forcing me to pronounce words and sentences aloud many times (till I get it right). Memorizing spelling and grammar is VERY time-consuming if you don't want to make mistakes, it's much easier to paste (I know). Never-the-less, I invite you to consider these additional minutes as an investment in your learning. Immersion is the fastest way to conformity.

Wow! I'm from Springfield, Illinois too! Now living in Houston -- and learning Spanish!

Que chevere, de verdad. Technicamente, soy un hispanohablante nativo (desde niño mi mama me hablaba los dos idiomas) PERO durante la niñez yo hablaba mas el Ingles entonces no aprendí la gramática (por la culpa de mi abuelo en que él no quería que mi mai aprendiera español). Ahora, yo lo hablo mas y con confianza. Todavía yo pienso y hablo los dos idiomas pero a veces yo traduzco. Esto me ayudó mucho. Gracias!

Great advise!

Estaba buscando un vídeo sobre este tema y me topé con el tuyo. Á mi también, me gusta wordreference. Gracias por los consejos.

I think it comes with time and experience. Often I don’t need to translate to English but often I do depending on my level of understanding.

I finally started reading el principito and I have been KILLING that Google translate 😂😂 I will try looking it up in Spanish now and see if that helps. Thanks for the tip!

I’m so happy I found your channel!! I just got back from Puerto Rico and have been completely immersed ever since. I’m to the point of trying to move there but I need to learn Spanish. OAN: why does everyone say he talks to fast when you can literally change the speed on the video with 2-3 taps of a button. Also: do you think you can add Spanish subtitles to your videos instead of just English ? I have been doing one language for audio and the opposite for the subtitles so I think it would help on your videos.

¡Necesití este video, muchas gracias!

Awesome! You are very helpful.

Good stuff bro very helpful

OMG brilliant. Thank you

Hola.. Im from trinidad and tobago. I love ur channel bro..

Such good advice!

Justo lo que necesitaba!

Such good advice. I just started learning Spanish and sometimes I say I “speak English using Spanish words”. It’s hard for me to use Spanish sentence structure. Your video will help me a lot!

Very helpful. Thank you.

First tip-🤔 what a good suggestion. It’s all good but that route to getting the understanding while searching in Spanish is just a good approach

Damnnn!!!! This is powerful!!

Excellent tip. I never thought about looking up the meaning of a word in Spanish. Like most learners, I type the word into google translate for the English translation. I think your suggestion will be much more effective. I will definitely do this moving forward.

Genius video!

You are absolutely correct

Wow thank You !!!!!!!!! Honestly

Hola Rickie! Gracias por el video. También puedes repasar las maneras en que podemos desarrollar un vocabulario más extenso. Muchísimas gracias!!

This is such obvious and practical advice that I didn't think of! Thanks!!!. I am learning French and Portuguese. Sometimes I look at definitions in either language but not in English. In other words, using Portuguese to understand French and vice versa. Idk if that is a smart idea or if that is causing more confusion between the three languages.

Welcome to Miami!! I found your channel while looikng for how to learn Spanish without immersion. Did you move here recently?? We are happy to have you here! Thanks so much for your videos.

You have probably one of the best selections of videos around for learning Spanish. For beginning/ intermediate students what would be the best methods to start off with in becoming fluent? And could you do a video on this?

What I do is put subtitles in Spanish when I watch Spanish speaking content or movies. If the subtitles are accurate, you will see a lot of words you recognize. The ones you don't look them up and make them into a flashcard on your phone. Another thing I do is listen to Spanish speakers and focus on listening to the Spanish words instead of trying to understand what they are saying in English When I can hear the Spanish word accurately, when my vocabulary improves I will understand the speaker. Reading books in Spanish helps big time. Your vocabulary improves A LOT. When you bump into words and phrases you don't know, look them up and make flashcards out of them. Make the front of the cards Spanish and the back English.

Great tips thanks

Un buen video!