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How do you write a story in a language you're not good at?
If I'm more familiar with, say, english, and I have to write a story in a language that's not as familiar to me, should I first write it in English and translate? Or do I write it directly in a language I'm unfamiliar with?
2 Answers
- InselstrickenLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
If you have to write a story or an essay for school, in the language you are learning, start in that language. Writing it in English first just means that you'll be trying to translate English idioms, English expressions, English grammatical structures, and it will make you make mistakes and sound fake and weird. Try as hard as you can to write directly in the language you're learning, even though it means looking up lots of words in the dictionary.
If you are writing a story for your own pleasure , always write in your native language.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Write it directly. If you write in English, you will end up writing a story you cannot translate anyway - it will be at a high level.
Write directly for the practice of thinking in the other language.
