Read a book with lots of dialogue
Opening up books before you buy one and flicking through them to find one with lots of direct dialogue in it has several advantages
. If there is less text on the page due to all the speech marks etc, this can make it easier to read and easier to write translations on.
Dialogue is also much easier to understand than descriptive parts of a book, and is much more like the language you will want to learn in order to be able to speak English.