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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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

instagram

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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