THINK IN ENGLISH. "How can I speak English? What should I do to improve my vocabulary/ Can only native speakers speak English?" We have come across such statements a million times and that provoked me to writing this article today. I have always told my students that thinking in English is mandatory to get a good command over the language and when I saw this question 'How'? I decided to write it out here in my own blog. This has to be cultivated young. Speak to your children in simple English. When you read English stories to children, never explain the story to the child in your mother tongue. There must be a natural assumption of the child's ability to comprehend English [even when you know he can't]. ...