Is it normal to translate from English to your native language? I find it hard to think of words in my native language, but I know that word in English, which is ironic. I need to write an essay in my NL , but I find it easier to write in Eng.

You’re not the only person who finds it easier to write in English despite having a different native language.

Where I’m living now, most people speak Albanian as a native language, but English is also spoken by most young people. And I’ve heard quite a few native speakers of Albanian tell me that they prefer to write in English. The grammatical structure of Albanian is a lot more complex.