Once you can read fluently you don’t translate in your head anymore. Same with speaking and listening.
Reading/Hearing something and understanding it while not thinking about what you just read/heard is the ultimate goal of every language learning.
Though it is sometimes funny when you know what something (like a word or a whole sentence) means in the language you are learning/”finished” learning and not in your native. Happens to me a lot with English lately (I’m no English native).
OP learns how acquiring a language works.
Yes, millions of people do this.
Yes! I’ve noticed this recently and it makes me giddy.
Thats what happens over time yes
That’s how fluency works. Being fluent in a language means being able to think in it.
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Once you can read fluently you don’t translate in your head anymore. Same with speaking and listening.
Reading/Hearing something and understanding it while not thinking about what you just read/heard is the ultimate goal of every language learning.
Though it is sometimes funny when you know what something (like a word or a whole sentence) means in the language you are learning/”finished” learning and not in your native. Happens to me a lot with English lately (I’m no English native).
OP learns how acquiring a language works.
Yes, millions of people do this.
Yes! I’ve noticed this recently and it makes me giddy.
Thats what happens over time yes
That’s how fluency works. Being fluent in a language means being able to think in it.
… Yes? It’s called reading.
Nobody else does this, unfortunately