How to Make an English Study Environment Learning Strategy
hi everybody and welcome to our weekly
live stream my name is alicia
and in this week’s lesson we are going
to talk about how to create
an english study environment oh no i put
a typo in the lesson title
how to create an english study
environment so that means
how to make it so that you
have only english around you
how to make a space for yourself
so this week i’m going to share some
ideas
uh for you sorry for you and for your
studies
uh and also some tips uh some things
that you can think about maybe you
already do this
so a few things that you can do uh to
maybe
improve your english study environment
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we are going to talk about how to create
an
english study environment how to
surround yourself with language
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today okay so
today i have a few
uh well i’ll just show you this is what
we’re going to talk about today
we’re going to talk first about what
immersion is what is immersion
why is it important second we’re going
to talk about
media how you can make an english study
environment with media
and third we’re going to talk about uh
some other ideas
like your electronic devices online
groups and so on
to make an english study environment so
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first what is immersion why should we
care
why is it important let’s take a look
let’s begin here for today so immersion
immersion i’ll put this here immersion
then what is immersion
so maybe this is a new vocabulary word
for some of you
immersion means surrounding yourself
with something so imagine uh like water
if you surround yourself if you are in a
swimming pool or in a lake
or the ocean that’s immersion that’s a
noun immersion
in this case we are going to talk about
immersion
in a language so that means being
surrounded
by a language so immersion is a great
way
to work on your language skills so
this is a big question from many of you
i see it in the comments a lot
how do we surround ourselves with a
language
if we can’t go to the country where the
language is spoken
so i know a lot of you are studying at
home
and you can’t go to or you can’t study
abroad or work
or so on in the country where they speak
the language in this case english so how
do we
create an immersion environment in those
cases
today i’m going to focus on these three
topics we’re going to talk about media
so that means books
tv youtube facebook uh
local and online groups and
electronic devices this means like your
phone your computer
and so on okay so
now someone says there’s something funny
about sound quality okay
well does does that improve it let me
know okay
so we’re going to talk about these three
today
but before we start talking about these
tips
i want to talk about a couple points
here
so first create time in your study
schedule
for immersion so that means uh maybe
like you study from a textbook or from
uh flashcards or you attend like an
english lesson once a week
maybe in your language but make
immersion
part of your study session so that means
make time to use
only the language you’re studying make
time to use
only english that’s one point here
and also make sure you give yourself a
chance
to do active and passive practice
this is another point i’m going to talk
about later
active and passive practice or active
and passive study means
actively listening for new words or for
grammar patterns
passive is when you turn on like a
youtube video in the background
and wash your dishes like wash your
clothes you’re not really listening it’s
just there
that’s the difference so remember to do
active
and passive practice so
lots of people say this in response to
that that when i
when when we talk about like watching a
movie or listening to music
they say this but i can’t understand
everything
and the answer is that’s okay like it’s
okay if you don’t understand
everything in your immersion practice
that’s completely fine
immersion helps you to get familiar
helps you understand the rhythm
of a language grammar patterns key
vocabulary and so on etc
so you don’t need to be focused on
understanding
everything remember this is for your
studies
right okay so this is what immersion is
and we’re going to talk
next uh about some ideas so you can
create a space
in your home or in your life to only
use english okay all right
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question
about this lesson today you can send it
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some tips and some ideas
for immersion environments so first
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one time and then we’ll go to part two
here we are
so now we’re going to talk about media
how do we use media to create an english
language study environment okay let’s go
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let’s go to media how do we use media
to create an immersion uh environment
how do we immerse ourselves in a
language with media
i have three main groups here
so first is music music
so music means you choose in this case
you choose a song in english or you make
a playlist of
english only songs so you listen to
these
again active and passive
listening that means sometimes you
listen really really closely
to the song for words and try maybe try
to sing along
sometimes you play it in the background
so actually
uh so well this is kind of a form of
active listening right i hope you know i
hope most of you are listening
actively to these weekly lessons okay
so let’s go to this next point this is a
tip that you can use
to use music specifically for your
studies
you can search for song lyrics
lyrics this word means the words of the
song
song lyrics we don’t use this for movies
only music
song lyrics and read or
sing along so that means read the words
at the same time
so you listen to the music and you read
the words
you read along or you sing along
meaning you sing at the same time as the
song
so this is a way to use music and media
for immersive practice
then another tip you can look up
new words in the dictionary look up new
words in the dictionary means
you check the song lyrics and you
search your dictionary to find new words
so you can use this for vocabulary
practice
yeah using music to do this so
this is a really a fun way i know for
many many people to practice
another tip something i did when i
started studying
another language i translated songs so
it wasn’t a perfect translation so i
study
i still study in japanese and i
found the lyrics i used google i did a
google search
for song lyrics and i wrote the song
lyrics
by hand and i translated i used a
dictionary
and my knowledge of grammar i translated
the songs
into english like one line at a time so
was it perfect no but i was studying and
practicing and that’s what was really
important
okay so these are some tips to
use music let’s talk now about tv
and movies and youtube and facebook and
this kind of media
again active and passive listening
is very important so i know from
i read the comments many people like to
turn on the video and play it in the
background
in their house or play it as they do
something else
that’s passive listening yeah
so we’re not focusing on the topics
we’re not focusing
on the lesson maybe active listening is
also very important active participation
so what does that mean for tv or for
movies or for youtube videos what does
that mean
so some ideas a lot of people
ask subtitles what should i do with
subtitles
subtitles are the words that appear down
here yeah in your native language or
they can be in english
depending subtitles people say should i
use subtitles should i not use subtitles
take a step back imagine you’re not
going to watch
just one time so you can use
subtitles in your language to understand
the topics
maybe this is good if you are a beginner
if you don’t have a big vocabulary
you can also use subtitles in your
target language
so that means for example if you’re
watching this video
or a different video on our youtube
channel
and you can you can read the things i
say
in english so this using
your target language english language
subtitles in this case
can help you to catch words that are
difficult for you to hear
so i speak slowly on this channel but
this can be really really helpful if you
have a favorite youtuber for example and
they speak really really fast
you can use the subtitles in english to
catch what they’re saying
so subtitles you can use again like i
said
for beginners maybe you can use them
to understand the story but it’s very
important
to listen also to how the person speaks
naturally so remember subtitles are a
tool
right so make sure you pay attention to
the rest of the story the rest of the
experience
too and again don’t watch just one time
that’s a key point here i’m going to
talk about later
maybe watch it one time with subtitles
and one time with no subtitles
and then again with subtitles so there
are opportunities to refresh
your mind okay another
idea this is for the tvs
or tv shows and movies that you watch
you can
search for the script and look up
new words so script means the words
in the tv show the words in the movie
the things the actors say
yeah search for the script again use
google google is your friend for your
studies
seriously so you can search for the
script
and look up new words and then watch
again so you can use tv and
movies and sometimes youtube videos this
way
to actually build your vocabulary
but again you have to be active about it
you can’t learn these things just
like playing a movie in the background
you have to take some time and do a
little bit of research
to find those new words okay so
here are some ideas for tv movies
youtube videos
and if you have some different ideas of
course please send them
in the chat i don’t see any so um
oh good uh commodity says podcast is
active or passive
well but it can be either again active
and
passive study means
you it’s up to you you decide so music
is not active or passive so active means
i am paying attention i am focusing and
trying to learn
passive means i play it in another room
and i’m not focusing on it so it’s up to
you
podcasts you can use in the same way
here
a podcast if you don’t know a podcast is
an audio
file like an interview or a discussion
or someone talking
about a topic many people like to use
this okay uh jermaine says alicia what
should i what happens
if the song lyrics are too fast and i
don’t understand
every word let’s go back to part one for
today
this i don’t understand everything
that’s okay that’s okay if you don’t
understand everything that’s okay
so that means you have an opportunity
look up
the words research the new words in a
dictionary
so you can understand them right so if
you don’t understand the words
check them out find new words that way
okay
uh good yeah chokochoko says set your
phone to your target language that is in
part three i have done that that’s one
of my favorite
tips okay cerek says i’m reading books
in
english i don’t understand everything
but it’s a good exercise
definitely yes definitely oh
uh john carlo lanois says how about
streaming oh
interesting do you mean well i mean this
live stream is
actually a lesson so i think this is
hopefully
a good study a good opportunity to
immerse
yourself you have 30 minutes with me
each week
so that’s a good chance to use only
english
i mean you could make a live stream
yourself that sounds tough
but you could totally try that’s great
okay last point here is about books and
magazines someone mentioned
books and magazines you can make flash
cards for each
new word you find when you are reading
so what does this mean this is actually
this is a tip i like to use
i choose a book so my guide for choosing
a book or a magazine
like i don’t like to study with
textbooks for me personally
at my level i like to find a topic
that’s interesting to me
like my hobby or something i want to
learn about
i choose a book in japanese that’s like
i can understand about 70 or 80 percent
then i read very slowly i read very
slowly
and i check the words i don’t know i use
a highlighter in my book
highlight the words i don’t know and
then
at the end of my study session i
look up the highlighted words and make a
vocabulary list
so that becomes my flashcards so i use
my books my reading like just enjoyable
reading books for my flash card study so
this is a
this is something that works really well
for me you can do this with
anything written with newspapers with
websites
whatever so this is one of my favorite
tips blogs yeah rocio says the same
thing
so blogs you can do this as well so you
can do the same thing
with that okay um raphael says improving
or getting better are the same thing
uh in this case they are they mean the
same thing they mean the same thing
depends on the situation okay
last point here very very important i
mentioned before
review review please please please
please please
review this is the big point in today’s
lesson
don’t watch a movie just one time for
language study
watch and listen to things many times
to refresh the information in your mind
so when you want to use a movie to study
or you want to listen to a song to study
listen to it many times over many days
just like you do when you listen to a
song in your native language yeah
you hear it on the radio like once a
week or once every day or something
and you learn the words right do the
same thing with your language studies
so make sure to review it’s very very
important
okay uh lauritza rodriguez on youtube
says i used to mark the words i didn’t
know the meaning of
i’ve learned a lot of vocabulary by
doing that yeah you pick up
you pick up like you learn a lot of
vocabulary words
naturally through reading and making a
note
of those new words great okay nice
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ready go okay so we talked about part
one what is immersion
what is it why should we care why is it
important
then we talked about media some media
ideas thank you for your ideas too
lastly we’re going to talk about
electronic devices
and local and online groups
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let’s go boom electronic devices how do
we use
electronic devices to create an
immersion environment
someone said earlier one of my tips here
this is a tip i use and
i love set your phone
or your computer’s language to the
language
you are studying so that means this like
set your phone
your mobile device or your laptop
computer desktop computer whatever
set the language to english if you’re
studying
english this is a good tip i s this is
in japanese my phone is in japanese
my computer is in japanese i have to use
it
every day that way lots of people say
but it’s so
hard it’s so hard i know
for me too at the beginning like the
first
maybe weekend or the first week was so
difficult it took me such a long time
so a tip then you can
try this like if you need to use your
computer for work or you need to use
your phone really quickly a lot
and like your level is a little too low
so you don’t feel so comfortable right
away you can try
for like a weekend like on your day off
or something
or maybe an hour like while you’re
studying you can change your phone’s
language
to english so you you practice that way
for like two hours or something
so remember it’s okay if it’s difficult
at first it was difficult for me at
first too like oh
i don’t know these vocabulary words it’s
not in a textbook
but it’s a really good way to practice
and you you and you use them every day
like if you change
your computer’s language to english
you’ll learn so many words because
the review is natural by using your
computer
you use the same vocabulary words all
the time right
so it’s perfect it’s perfect way to do
natural
review okay um
all right let’s go to the next point
local and online groups local and online
groups you can use these
to create an immersion environment so of
course
maybe you have a conversation group
maybe you have a like a conversation
lesson
once a week or something or maybe you go
to a hobby group
that uses english in your case so of
course
maybe it’s a little difficult this year
to meet many people in person
you can look for these online too
so this is actually an example of that
so
we have every week in our live stream of
course a lesson but in the chat
this is an option to use only english
and everybody writes in english in the
chat
on facebook and on youtube so this is an
example
of an online space where you can use
english
you can immerse yourself in english
every week
okay madrista says what does target
language mean
target language means the language you
are focused on the language you want to
study
so probably most people here study
english
but i know many people are studying
other languages too
so you can use these for any language
not just english
okay um i’m looking for your questions
okay let’s go to the next point social
media accounts
okay this is one that i use that i like
to use
that’s easy to do so social media
follow people that are interesting to
you
if you’re studying english i think
everybody’s studying english here
you can follow people that are
interesting to you your favorite
celebrity maybe or like your favorite
artist or a magazine or
something interesting for you in english
so follow on like instagram or twitter
facebook whatever
and then read their posts so
i think too it’s really important to
uh make time to check their posts
sometimes because i know
sometimes i follow an account like on
and i think oh i’m going to read this
account’s information
every day but sometimes i feel tired and
i don’t want to take the time
to try to understand a lot of new
vocabulary words
it’s okay but make sure if you follow
someone for study you try to
understand their posts too so look up
new words
in their posts like in their instagram
caption or on their
twitter feed or something so you can
follow people on social media
to do this so this one’s good
okay uh next one is online
discussion forums online discussion
forums so
online discussion forums means this
means like uh
like discord maybe some of you know
discord that’s an example
you can type and you can speak in
discord there are speaking
chat groups you can join there there are
also
just online like zoom i think groups
these days especially that you can check
out too
so there are places where you can
practice writing and
places to practice speaking yes you will
need to take some time to maybe make a
group
if you can’t find a group of people but
you can
create these opportunities okay
also youtube communities these can be
great places so i mentioned before
uh like our comment section here uh
people have the opportunity
to meet up together and i’ve seen a few
people like making
groups they make groups of friends to
practice together with so
you might find in youtube communities
some places where you can practice and
immerse yourself
too so i want to finish here with a tip
a quick tip about uh these groups i know
many people feel shy
uh especially beginners maybe you feel
like your confidence is low
you’re not ready but you want to
experience it
you can if you feel shy about speaking
or writing in an online group you can
just
join the group or follow like a social
media account
or so on and just read just read the
information
so for example lots of people write in
the chat every week
on facebook and on youtube here but you
don’t have to
you can just read the comments and see
what people say
and then when you feel comfortable then
you can write a comment
and see how you feel so
take it slow take it at your pace okay
so these are some tips for how to create
an
english language study environment or to
create an environment
anywhere uh with any language so i hope
that this helps you
all right that is it for this week wow
time
flies by it goes so quickly these days
so
i have to end there but i hope that you
found something
useful i hope you found some tips to
create
your own immersion environment i’ll show
you today’s lesson boards one more time
so you can take a screenshot in case you
missed
it there okay so this
is what we talked about today immersion
of course
surrounding yourself with a language
some ideas
for media and some ideas for your
devices your electronics and online and
local
groups of course big point as always
please don’t forget to review review
review review it’s very very important
to review okay that’s all for this week
um i’ll be back next week what did i say
next week’s topic
next oh my gosh next week’s topic is
going to be
expressions for reflection sorry i made
a typo i have to fix uh
expressions for reflection so what does
that mean
december 2nd next week it’s very bright
in here it’s hard for me to see today
next week’s lesson december 2nd this
year is going
so fast oh my gosh i’m going to talk
about expressions for reflection
reflection this word this word means
looking back on something so i thought
for the end of the year
we could practice remembering this year
what happened this year
thinking about this year like our
opinions
at the end of the year so how do we do
that in english
that’s what we are going to practice in
next week’s lesson so please join me
next week
to practice reflecting in english
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