When I read a text in Spanish about a topic I know a lot about (thanatophobia in this case), I don't have to translate everything in my head to English to understand it

I used to have the bad habit of translating everything to English when reading texts in Spanish, but now it is very gratifying to see that I don't need to do that anymore. <br><br>When you start to learn a new language, it's normal that you tend to translate everything to your mother tongue, but as you progress, that habit gradually fades away. <br><br>The only thing that still gets me is idiomatic expressions or phrases that require a native speaker's perspective, but thank God there's Google for that.<br><br>I love the feeling of finally becoming able to understand a language without any translation of any sort.