Think in your language. Ship in English.
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If English isn't your first language, you're not slow. You're paying a tax.
You know exactly what you want to say - then spend minutes translating it in your head before a single word hits the screen.
There's a faster way. 🧵
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And the tax is measured. A 2023 PLOS Biology study found non-native English speakers spend ~50% more time writing the same text — and get rejected for language reasons 2.5× more often.
Reading? ~25–30% slower, even at near-native fluency.
Why? Your working memory is doing two jobs at once: generating the idea AND translating + quality-checking it into English.
Both pull from the same limited pool. The translation load steals from the thinking.
The fix isn't "get better at English." It's changing the order:
1. Draft in the language you actually think in.
2. Do the English pass second.
Echoo does step 2 in one shortcut. Hit ⌥E and your draft becomes natural English inline — in about a second.
Free, macOS. Draft in your language, hit ⌥E, ship in English:
https://echoo.ai
The research behind it →
https://echoo.ai/blog/write-2x-faster-in-your-native-language