How to Optimize Your English Study Time

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minutes okay today’s topic is how to get

a return on your language learning

investment if you’re watching this

you’re already learning a foreign

language but if you’re like most people

you’re probably wondering if it’s

working or if you’re getting better

right so that’s why today you’re going

to learn one two big reasons people fail

to the importance of tracking your

return on language learning and 3 how to

track your results and reach your goals

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into today’s topic

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how to get a return on your

language-learning investment I’m

learning a language but I’m not sure if

it’s working or if I’m getting better

have you ever felt this way this is a

very normal thought to have but before

you go and blame your textbook or your

app let’s make sure you’re not the one

making mistakes so let’s get into part

one you already know the first big

reason if you’ve watched our previous

monthly reviews people often fail

because they said vague goals like I

want to be fluent which they don’t know

how to achieve but the second big reason

is lack of time they don’t put in the

hours learning a language is a lot like

going to a gym you get what you put in

for example if you get a dumbbell and do

nothing nothing happens it can do great

things for you but it won’t work until

you pick it up and curl it a few times

the same thing goes for whatever

language learning resource you’re using

or not using if you put in one hour a

day you get results if you put in 10

minutes a day you get results but if you

put in zero you get zero you can have

the best language learning method in the

world and get zero results if you do

nothing and similarly you can have the

worst textbook ever and make progress if

you put in the time so you have to make

sure you’re consistently putting in time

first part to getting a return on

language learning now if you’re putting

in time and have a consistent routine

the next step is to track your effort

and results there’s a good quote for

this what gets measured gets managed

meaning if you track your progress you

can know what works and what doesn’t and

you know how to improve so let’s say

your dream is to speak the language and

right now you’re using a quiz app to

learn the language how do you know if

it’s working you can waste months doing

this until one day you realize you can’t

speak or you can figure this out sooner

if you track your effort if you step

back and track your effort and results

you’ll see that the quizzes have helped

you remember words but you’ve done zero

speaking practice and can’t speak once

you realize this you can adjust your

routine to do something else that helps

you speak the point is you get to know

what works

what doesn’t work again what gets

measured gets managed next tracking

helps you see a clearer path to your

language goals here’s an example from

our learning program with our audio

lessons the absolute beginner level ones

we know that three or four audio lessons

can help you master about one minute of

conversation that’s because the dialogue

tracks are about 20 seconds so 20

seconds apiece that’s 60 seconds one

minute now you know the return on your

time three or four lessons means one

minute of conversation and because you

know how to reach one minute you know

how to reach two minutes three minutes

and then 10 minutes you can actually see

a clearer path to your goals so the big

lesson is if you track your results

you’ll know what to expect in the future

and you can hit your language learning

goals again

what gets measured gets managed now how

do you track exactly part three how to

track your results and hit your goals

remember at the basic level language

learning is putting in time you don’t

need a special language gene or a talent

you just need time the more time you put

in the more results you get so let’s

look at two ways an easy way and an

advanced way of tracking your time and

results let’s start with the easy way

first one simply track the time you put

in so if you do a 10 minute audio lesson

today and then spend five minutes with

flashcards note this is 15 minutes for

the day just write it down in a notebook

or a planner then do the same thing

tomorrow the goal here is to track the

time and your effort so you can review

later if one day you realize you don’t

speak as much as you’d like here’s what

you do

you look at your time sheet if you see

that you’ve been just watching youtube

videos you can spot the problem which is

you’ve done no actual vocab study or

speaking practice and then you can start

doing it another way you can track your

time and effort is with the dashboard on

our site if you visit the dashboard you

can see the lessons you’ve completed the

number of flashcards reviewed and hours

studied now here’s the second tactic and

it’s an advanced one track time and

results tracking time is easy but

tracking results is trickier if you’re

learning a language on your own

so how do you do that for example if

you’re studying words with flashcards

study for five minutes and can remember

seven out of ten words then that’s your

return you know that five minutes gives

you seven words if you know this you’ll

know what to expect when you learn new

words another thing you can do is work

to boost that number to ten out of ten

next if you’re practicing your listening

skills try to gauge how much you

understand if you understood about 20

percent of a three-minute lesson then

that’s your return for now but by

knowing this you can start asking

questions like what can I do to

understand 50 percent of this lesson

will doubling my time double my results

as well will reviewing this lesson for a

few minutes a day every day work better

than trying to memorize it all today

then you put these questions to the test

and try them out and because you know

your return you can see if it really

works all right everyone in the last

monthly review we asked you to submit a

video or audio file of yourself speaking

the language so thank you to all of you

that sentence submissions you’ve all

received a Premium Plus subscription as

a reward now let’s take a look at some

of the submissions

okay so I’m gonna check out the audio

and video submissions that were sent by

you for this month I am very excited

begin hi my name is fabula Fabiola item

from Brazil okay also I’m 21 here in

Brazil I speak Portuguese but I’ve

always loved English and I’ve always

wanted to learn it so right now I’m

trying to focus on this language because

next year I have a job opportunity

oh the USA going for it so nice I’m

really excited to know your people your

country and most of all practice my

English for sure so I’m already

practicing a lot my listening my

speaking my writing and my reading right

every day I try to practice I feel all

these things go so that’s it my English

is not perfect at all but I keep trying

and I’m not giving up awesome so you

said your English is not perfect at all

at the end of your message but that

message was perfect like your

pronunciation was very clear it was

really everything you wanted to say was

very clear like you’re 21 and you have a

job opportunity in the States that’s

super exciting you’re studying every day

that sounds awesome it sounds like

you’re doing everything in like a really

positive and like forward moving way so

that’s super cool thank you so much for

sending this message and good luck in

the US next year that is awesome thank

you for sending this that’s made me so

happy super cool okay I’m going to

listen to the next message

thank you so much for the opportunity so

I would like to give thanks for English

class 101 because it really helps me a

lot especially improving my listening

skills and I do understand the culture

okay oh you know America or whatever

well thank you so much guys for this

opportunity cool and love from the

Philippines awesome from the Philippines

thank you so much for this message yeah

I’m happy to hear about the ways that

you like to use our videos and the

content that we have so that’s cool too

that you like learning about culture

with the stuff that we make I think

we’re trying to make more things so that

people can learn more about culture so

I’m really happy to hear that you enjoy

that that’s super cool thank you very

much for this message okay I will go to

the next one

it’s been great to use your learning

site I have been learning English for a

long time but after being with English

101 comm I have improved and motivated

so I have the wheel two cameras on day

to study that’s why I’m studying and I

want to travel the world

cool Wow so he said going to Cambridge

to study some days his goal that is

awesome that is a huge goal so I wish

you the best of luck in doing that and

thank you for studying with us I really

hope that we can help you reach that

goal someday awesome good luck to you

okay one more

hi Alicia I’m Rosie from more discipline

I want minds because for the money I can

jump I need English to read write and

also speaking easily since I’m working

the area of training aid I enjoyed males

the innate is notice in English and also

sometimes I have to communicate in

English and also sometimes I have to

present in English so I have to improve

my English therefore I can do my job

better thank you right cool yeah so it

sounds like you have to use all aspects

of English all parts of English in order

to do your job which is a big challenge

but your message is really clear and

really easy to understand so I think as

long as you continue studying you’re

going to continue improving your English

and getting better at your job therefore

then - so that’s awesome good luck thank

you so much for watching our videos and

studying with us and I hope that you

continue and continue improving - into

the future so thank you all right I

think that’s all the messages that we

have for this month so thank you so much

to everybody who sent a message this

time and I look forward to hearing from

more of you again next month - so which

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