i've gotten pretty good with just duolingo and trying to have basic conversations with my in-laws over the weekends. Biggest problem to me is the grasping sent

i've gotten pretty good with just duolingo and trying to have basic conversations with my in-laws over the weekends. Biggest problem to me is the grasping sentences as a whole most of the time, i still translate indiviual words. This creates akward delays when i am responding. I would recommend trying to grasp sentences as a whole vs words.