First, you must become the friend of the question, not the servant of the passage. Read it, then close your book and tell the story back in your mind, like I tell my daughter about the day's work in my *jingbiah*.
For years, I copied English words directly, fearing my own were wrong. My breakthrough came when my mentor said, "Imagine explaining this answer to your Appa in Tamil, then translate that understanding back into English."
That practice, born from necessity, taught me that the 'own words' are the ones that survive the journey from your first language to your second. They carry the true comprehension.
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