How to Improve Your English While Commuting

hey everybody welcome back to our weekly

live stream my name is Alisha and today

we’re going to talk about how to learn

English on your commute I will give you

some ideas for your studies that you can

use on your way to work or on your way

to school and of course on the way home

as well

so today will be just some study ideas

some methods that you can consider I’m

going to cover some ideas whether you go

by bus or by train or you drive a car or

even if you work from home maybe just a

couple of ideas to consider to start and

end your day so we’re going to cover

reading and writing and speaking and

listening ideas and of course if you

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let’s get started so first I want to

talk about some listening and some

speaking ideas for maybe those of you

who drive a car or you have some kind of

private space where you can practice on

your way to and from work so first idea

first study idea is to listen to and

repeat after I do lessons audio lessons

so for those of you who have an account

on our website at English class 101 you

can download and listen to our audio

lessons there are about a 10 or 15

minutes long some are a little bit

shorter so I’m a bit longer so if you

have this kind of private space where

you can actually repeat like you’re in

the privacy of private space in your own

car or maybe like in your house in the

morning you can actually repeat after

the lessons if you don’t have a private

space maybe you can just listen to the

audio lessons so some thoughts about

this is first choose a lesson that’s

focused on a key expression or a

specific target so when you’re choosing

like which audio lesson to study during

your commute maybe it’s better to choose

a lesson that’s focused on something

like this

likes some ideas might be how to

introduce yourself so how to say like my

name is and so on or how to order at a

restaurant or how to talk about your

hobbies these are just a few ideas the

reason I would suggest these kinds of

lessons are because if you especially if

you’re driving it’s really important to

focus on the road right so you want to

make sure you can easily listen and

repeat the information studying grammar

trying to think about grammar might be a

little bit difficult to do so try to

choose a specific target for the lesson

like you’re trying to you have a

specific expression you’re practicing or

you have like a specific phrase or

question that you’re practicing so

choose a lesson that’s focused on a key

expression another idea is if your

commute is 20 plus minutes or 20 plus

meaning 20 or more minutes then you can

think about this idea do one new lesson

so you have a new lesson on your way

like like your first lesson is a new

lesson so a lesson you have not studied

before and then you do a review so you

review like the previous day’s lesson or

you review an old lesson something like

that so if you if you have this time you

can give yourself the opportunity to

learn something new like a new

expression a new a new phrase a new

question and you have the opportunity to

review something from a previous study

session so this can be good if you have

a longer commute or if you just have a

little bit more time on your way to work

or school or of course on the way home

as well okay and then the last point

here is just remember to review on your

way home so whatever lesson you listened

to in the morning consider listening to

that lesson again on your way home so

like eight hours nine hours later ten

hours later depending on your schedule

so this is something you can do as I

said of course you can listen to it just

listen to the lesson if you’re on like a

train or a bus and there are other

people around but if you’re in a car you

can actually speak like repeat after the

native speaker repeat after the person

who’s talking

in the lesson so some ideas you can

check out we have lessons we have audio

lessons on our website of course so

please have a look at those there if you

don’t know at English class 101 not to

come we do have audio lessons lots and

lots of audio lessons there so please

check those out some other ideas

especially for like intermediate or

advanced learners some listening ideas

our English news English news especially

English news for learners so if you

google just English news for learners or

English for learners I’m sorry English

news sites for learners you can find

some resources online where people will

share the news but they use a specific

English a specific type of English for

learners for people who are studying so

they’ll introduce key vocabulary points

idioms and other expressions finally

another cool idea is podcasts podcast if

you don’t know what a podcast is a

podcast is kind of like a radio show but

a podcast is made like by individual

people so you can choose a topic that’s

interesting to you and find a show about

that so you can do this like with your

phone like just with your smart phone if

you have a smart phone or even if you

don’t have a smart phone

you can search for podcasts on like

Apple podcasts or Spotify or other

podcast libraries directories and you

can find a topic that suits your

interest so if you have maybe if you

have a podcast that you like you can

send it in the chat so other people can

find it so if you have a recommendation

for something you like to listen to you

can check that out and oftentimes

podcasts have notes there are like notes

about each episode of the podcast so you

can check maybe some of the key

information in written form there so

that’s another resource that you can

consider

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today’s lesson so if you’re just joining

today’s topic is how to learn during

your commute how to learn English or

other languages on your commute so I’ve

talked about learning with audio

listening to an audio lesson or like to

news into podcasts and if you can

repeating after the native speakers so

let’s go to part 2 then part 2 part 2

excuse me is

to use an app or a site to study

vocabulary words so app this word app a

PP app means application a smartphone

application so you can use an app or a

website some tool that you prefer to use

to study vocabulary words this is one

that I did for a couple years in the

morning and at night that’s true

I had an app I studied Japanese on my

way to work and on my way home from work

15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes

in the evening because I knew vocabulary

was my weak point and this was so

helpful for me I learned new words every

day and I could use them at work every

day - so this was personally really

really helpful for me every day some

ideas I’ve talked about this app unki a

nki unki is a free flashcard app a flake

free flashcard and like a vocabulary

basically a study tool so you can choose

I’ll talk about in a moment you can

choose like a group of words and you can

study them inside on key this free tool

so when you use unki you can choose like

when you see a word appear in the app

you can say yes I know this word or I

don’t really know this word or I totally

don’t know this word and according to

your answer

the software will remember your like

your level of like ability to identify

that word so it will show you the word

again at a later time according to your

answer so that’s cool also of course if

you don’t know about our website we do

have stuff on our website too an English

class 101 some of the features are free

so you don’t have to have a paid account

to get access to some of these the free

things that we have there our vocabulary

list so if you go to the website and you

click on vocabulary in the men

you you can choose vocabulary lists

vocabulary lists so you can access the

vocabulary lists for free and you can

access the 100 core words lists for free

too so if you do that you’ll see there’s

a picture for the vocabulary word or the

expression and there’s also audio so you

can listen to that as well so these are

a couple of ideas for places to study

places to get vocabulary lists to study

and how to study those so what you can

do is when you when you are deciding

what to study what app or website to use

choose a list of words or a list of

phrases or a deck so deck it comes from

like a deck of cards the word we use in

English is a Dec Dec K so that means one

set a group of playing cards so on key

this software I talked about they use

what’s called decks it’s like a group of

vocabulary words or a group of phrases

but in other software like we have

vocabulary lists so choose a list or

choose a deck of words that you want to

study and you can choose from lists

already available so for example we

already have a lot of vocabulary lists

prepared that you can choose from or you

can make your own list so if you want to

make your own list yes it can take some

time but you also have that ability to

make your own list for something and

create your own kind of deck or your own

group of words in your vocabulary study

app okay uh I don’t see specific

questions to today’s lesson so let’s

continue on to this point I mentioned

already study on your way to and from

work in school so I mentioned earlier

but when I was studying vocabulary like

really focusing on studying vocabulary I

would study

in the morning I had a nap in my case I

was using a Japanese study app I studied

in the morning like as soon as I got on

my subway my subway train and in the

morning I started and then when I

arrived at my work like my station I

stopped and that was about 15 minutes in

the morning I did the same thing on my

way home at night so it seems like a

short time but in one day that’s 30

minutes of study and over the course of

a week and over the course of months

that’s a lot actually so this was this

strategy was super helpful for me to

build my vocabulary so I really really

like this I can recommend this for

improving your vocabulary someone I mean

hun said write down myself

yeah if you if you can like that’s great

to practice your writing to to write the

words as well I think that’s great I

guess it depends a little on what you

want to focus on if you want to just get

new vocabulary in your head you can use

just an app if you want to practice the

vocabulary and practice reading and

writing with the vocabulary sure that

sounds great too

okay Oscar says what does commute mean a

commute commute means your travel to and

from work or school so every day many

people have a commute to work or a

commute to school so commute commute

I’ll write it on the board your commute

mean travel to and from work or school

or other other obligations may be so

travel to and from work in school is

your commute other questions yes someone

says how do i improve my English when

commuting that is today’s lesson topic

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