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Might I make one change, only ever speak in the target language. Visualize the thing, but avoid programming yourself to consider it in a non-target language.
I’ve done a few languages (~~three~~ four, I forgot to count French) to varying amounts of fluency (one of which I consider myself actually fluent), and only ever speaking the target language helps immensely.
Really? I was trying to say both with every word to help with association, something along the lines of "I want to say the word Cat, but can't remember the name for it." I figured constantly saying Cat and Die Katze together would help associate the two together.
You’ve got the right idea, just need to change the implementation. Visualize the cat when you say die katze or a cup of water when you say wasser because that’s what we do naturally in our native language, and if you want to speak fluidly, the translation needs to go from thought to words, not thought > English > German. I mean, you can do it that way, but then you’ll have to work on cutting it out later.
That's a really good point. I'll give it a shot, thanks!
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