Topic: Translating Date: 31/01/2013 Slog #3

I'm finally starting to get a clear picture of how to use logical symbols together and understanding the meaning of the sentence. However, translating from English to Symbols is still a little unclear to me. Since English is so ambiguous, I sometime mix up the way I use my symbols or maybe I'm just not good at using symbols. For example, I sometimes use the implication symbol, when it should really be a conjunction. My question is that when should I use those symbols such as ^,=>,<=>,v,etc to join a statement together in the correct order it's written in. These symbols confuse me sometimes and I can't really use symbols to express longer statements. I understand truth tables help, but some statements are just too confusing. I did practice questions and usually, at the end, I do end up understanding how to express an English statement in symbols, but it seems I have to read the sentence many times and sometimes I look at part of the answer to get an understanding of the rest, but this method will not work on the midterm coming up and I would like to know how I can get better and faster at writing out English in symbols. Also, most of the time I'm not confident with what I expressed in symbols because the corresponding English statement seems to have different meanings every time I read it. I have to find someway to get over this bump and be able to express English sentences in symbols as if it was second nature to me.