How to Remember English Vocabulary

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hi everybody welcome back to cop words

my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna

talk about 10 different ways to remember

words so these are actually some ways to

remember words that you have sent in to

us so I’m really excited to see what

your recommendations are I study other

languages so let’s talk about it let’s

see

I associate new words with words that

sound similar in my native language if

you’re studying English your native

language might share some words so like

I’m studying Japanese and for example

the word chocolate sounds very very

similar in in Japanese so in English the

word is chocolate in Japanese the word

is choco doodle so it sounds similar so

that’s an easy word for me to remember I

learn about the roots of words and how

different words are related to each

other many words in English have roots

in very very old languages like Latin so

a word like omniscient for example can

be broken down into maybe two parts the

Omni Omni meaning all or everything and

she int The Shins part relates to

knowledge or knowing so together the

word means all-knowing omniscient maybe

you can guess the meaning even if it’s

the first time you’ve seen the word okay

I listen to songs and memorize the

lyrics this is also a common way to to

help kids learn things too through songs

opposite of B plus or minus the square

root b squared minus 4ac all over 2a

it’s a quadratic function equation

because it’s a song it’s still in my

head Thank You mrs. Sam I often watch TV

or YouTube videos that are designed for

young children that’s how children in

the native language learn so it’s a

great tool for you don’t be embarrassed

to do that I do that in English we have

Dora the Explorer

we have Sesame Street we have another

channel that’s made for children’s

content but it could be useful for you

it’s called kids vs. life so please be

sure to check that out I speak as often

as possible with native speakers a

native speaker can go on that’s that’s a

strange thing that you’re saying so

there are a lot of small factors the

you can’t get unless you’re speaking

with a native speaker so this is a

really really great tip if you’re

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try to use the language routinely in the

context of daily life when you’re alone

just doing stuff at home like making

breakfast or cooking or doing the

laundry if you use the language just to

say like now I’m going to I don’t know

cut vegetables or oh I need to do

laundry later today or thinking about

your appointment whatever another good

example is really I put my phone into my

target language you’re telling little

stories when you’re having conversations

with people so get used to telling

yourself the story I use repetition

reading writing and speaking words over

and over again keep repeating in your

studies even if it feels like you know

you’re not making any progress you are

just just the act of doing that

repetition can be helpful for you if a

football player never throws a football

he’s not going to be able to throw it

very well is he you have to repeat

repeat repeat and then when you’re faced

with the actual situation where you need

to throw the football you need to use

that vocabulary word you’re ready you

already know how to say the word so yes

repeat it’s good I try to think in

English so it becomes natural to my

thought process I do this I think about

what I need to do I think about what I

have done I think about what I’m going

to do and so in that way you can

practice past tense future tense and

present tense recently this has been

happening to me I’ve started dreaming in

Japanese from time to time or I dream

bilingually it’s exciting I think I try

to use the word in a simple sentence so

I learn whole phrases not just

individual words yes this is a huge tip

so vocabulary is important of course if

you don’t know a key word you might miss

the meaning of something but context is

important too so there might be two

words which seem very similar like big

and large for example but when should I

use large when should I use big

like if your clothes shopping and you

say mmm do you have this in a big size

it might not be the correct way to use

the word instead do you have this in a

large size is the correct phrase so

learning how to use the correct

vocabulary word at the correct time is

important and you can do that through

studying sentences and phrases instead

of just vocabulary this is why reading

is important I feel reading as much as

possible especially the newspaper helps

me to remember words when I was a kid I

just read everything I was I was so into

reading I loved it and I think that it

helped it actually helped my language

skills improve even in my native

language again at first it’s really hard

to do and you might have to use a

dictionary a lot but you’ll learn

gradually more natural speaking patterns

more natural writing patterns too which

will help you to sound more natural when

you speak and maybe it can help your

listening skills to when you can listen

for those patterns that you see in

textbooks that you see in newspapers and

novels whatever it’s a great tool

reading and thank goodness that’s the

end so those are ten tips that you can

use to remember new words and new

phrases try them out I’m going to be

doing my best with my target language I

hope that you do too thank you very much

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everybody and welcome back to top words

my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna

talk about 10 ways to motivate yourself

when learning English let’s go the first

way to motivate yourself is to imagine

that one day you will live in the United

States so to do this imagine what is

your day going to be like when you live

in the u.s. where will you go who will

you meet where will you shop and so on

imagine your day in the United States ok

the second way to motivate yourself when

you’re studying English is to study

other aspects of the culture too which

makes it more rewarding to study English

ok so this means of course studying

English as a language but if there’s a

specific country that you would like to

visit or a specific part of that

country’s culture try to learn about

that too if you like music if you like

the food if you like the hiss

try to find something about a specific

country or a specific part of that

country’s culture that you enjoy in

addition to studying the language okay

way number three to motivate yourself is

finding funny words in English okay so

finding a word that sounds funny or a

word that you enjoy using or a phrase

that you enjoy using can really increase

your motivation for using that word and

for interacting with people so if you

can find those phrases that you think

are funny or are fun they can be really

really helpful for you as you learn your

language the next way to motivate

yourself is to make friends with people

who speak English so of course if you

don’t have any friends who are English

speakers especially native English

speakers it’s a really good idea to make

some friends

this way you can practice with them you

can learn from them and you can just see

maybe what their life is like and how

their life is different from yours so

this is a great way to practice a great

way to learn and a great way to think

more internationally as well the next

way to motivate yourself is watching

youtube videos of other people who have

successfully learned English so you can

listen to people what worked for them

how did they study where did they go

what materials did they use what did

they find

not helpful so you can try to find a

strategy that works well for you through

using resources like YouTube for example

it’s a great way to find people that

maybe match with what you need ok the

next way to motivate yourself is by

watching English movies and TV shows and

enjoying the feeling when you can

understand a word or a sentence yeah I

do this too when you enjoy something

when you find entertainment value in

something like music movies TV and you

there’s that moment when you pick up or

when you understand what your favorite

character said or you understand that

like a key point in the story it’s a

really really good feeling it makes you

want to continue watching I think so

that’s a really really nice feeling I

think and you can do that by enjoying

media so it’s a fun way to learn and

it’s a fun feeling to expect

okay the next way to motivate yourself

is by reading English news articles

blogs and magazines to get a feel for

formal and casual language so the style

that we use here like an English class

101 and this on the videos on this

channel is quite casual most of the time

or at least in these videos it’s very

casual

but the way that I speak in the way a

newspaper is written the way a magazine

is written the way a a newscaster

presents the information these are all

different ways of communicating we’re

using the same language yes but there

are different styles so it’s important

to try to understand those differences

and to become familiar with them so try

to find a few different things that you

can enjoy the next way to motivate

yourself is after dinner you write about

your day in a journal in English okay

this is an interesting idea so just take

a few minutes after dinner or before you

go to bed to write something in English

about what you did that day or maybe so

you have a chance to talk about future

tense or to use the future tense you can

use you can talk about your upcoming

plans or the things you’re going to do

the next day so you can talk about past

tense what you did that day maybe

present tense how you’re feeling as

you’re writing your journal for the day

and future tense to talk about your

upcoming plan so journaling can be a

really effective exercise for motivating

you okay the next way to motivate

yourself is by practicing with

flashcards of useful words and phrases

for 15 minutes every day on the train I

actually do do this I use but I use an

application to study in Japanese to

study kanji and 15 minutes every day

adds up over the course of a week you

can learn a lot of information in a

short period of time and if you live in

the country where your target language

is spoken then you might even find the

word you studied on the train you see it

like after you leave the train you might

see that word later on in your day so

you can immediate

we feel like an extra sense of

motivation by knowing that this thing

you’re studying is applicable it’s

something you can use right away it’s a

really cool feeling so this is a tip I

honestly I use this last I make sure to

thank anyone and everyone who corrects

my English yeah I I think this is really

important because people are really nice

they don’t want to correct you when you

make a mistake but sometimes people do

they’re really polite about it and they

tell you the more tell you a more

natural way or they give you a

suggestion for how to improve your

English make sure you say thank you like

repeat after them and then say thank you

so that you know it’s motivation for

them to tell you again in the future to

help you again in the future so make

sure to say thank you to anyone who

helps you with your English so that’s

the end so those are ten ways that you

can motivate yourself when you learn

English if you have a different strategy

for how you like to motivate yourself to

learn English please let us know in the

comments please be sure also to like

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if you haven’t already thanks very much

for watching I hope this video motivated

you to keep studying we’ll see you again

soon with more fun stuff my hi everybody

my name is Alisha and today I’m joined

again in the studio by Michael hello hi

Michael thanks for joining us again

today today we’re going to be looking at

a few tips for learning another language

so each of us have prepared a few things

that we think are really useful when

learning another language both of us

have studied another language to some

degree so we’re gonna talk about things

that were useful for us and which might

be useful for you as you practice your

English skills so let’s begin do you

want to start sure go for it I would say

absorb media this is something that

actually when I meet someone and they

sound like a native English speaker and

I go you know where are you from are you

from Australia America no no no I’m from

blah blah blah what you mean you’re not

a native English speaker and every

single time they tell me I said you know

how did you learn please I’m an English

teacher I want to know I want to help

people habla and every single time they

tell me oh I just love blah blah blah

culture so usually I love American

culture I love Justin Bieber and Lady

gaga blah blah blah blah

and so all day everyday they’re reading

they’re watching movies are sitting on

YouTube and just absorbing it and it

doesn’t feel like you’re studying but

you are and so then you’re more likely

to study so it’s like a fun way to study

it’s it’s helped me I’ve changed

everything on my iPod so even when I’m

lazy I have no choice but to listen to

the language I’m learning yeah I think

that’s a really good tip I had the same

thing essentially mine was just phrased

slightly different I said find something

that interests you in your target

language so if English is your target

language whatever it might be if it’s

music if it’s movies if it’s comic books

I don’t know if it’s if you’re

interested in something dating someone

who speaks to your target language

whatever it is find something to

motivate you something that’s gonna make

you want to study and make you want to

learn that language so that you have

that you know that that drive to do it I

totally agree with you yeah I think it’s

a great tip okay cool so we had one

thing that was the same I guess I’ll

share another one of mine if that’s okay

my next one is one that I try to do

myself but I know that I miss a mess up

every once in a while um

practice every day even if it’s just a

few minutes whether you can spare an

hour or two hours or just I myself study

while I’m you know commuting to work on

the subway just find something that you

can do every single day so that you

don’t lose you know lose your place in

your studies just whether it’s

vocabulary or picking a new grammar

point to be looking at or just you know

finding a new phrase on TV that you

thought was interesting just being an

active learner every single day really

really contributes I think to your

abilities to speak and to understand

another language let’s just practice

every single day something I think this

is a really useful piece of advice for

anything I think a lot of people you get

overwhelmed and you know you think man I

want to be here whether it’s exercising

or playing the piano or whatever and you

just want to finish you know a year’s

worth of time in one day so you study

really hard you know you procrastinate

and then one day you do you cram as much

as you can you get burnt out and then

you don’t do it for weeks

eight months and that’s not the way

humans work we’re creatures of habit any

of the best the greatest whether they

speak a language like you is wonderfully

as you do or whatever or play piano or

whatever every single time you ask them

brick by brick by brick so I I agree

100% and I also don’t follow this advice

all the time tough I think the key is to

not give up so for me honestly my my

languages aren’t I’m not as confident

but as far as exercise you know you’ll

get lazy and you’ll pig out and you go

down but you can’t just give up and just

let it go down right just remember the

big picture that you are making progress

even if there’s some some some decline

so you busy with work whatever get back

on it keep practicing yeah English get

back on English class 101.com

what is your next tip um so my next tip

is also related to practice everyday is

practice fearless Lee so this means you

know it’s easy to learn some basic

phrases in English hello I’m fine thank

you and you and you sound like a robot

and you feel comfortable comfortable in

your little like comfort zone but you

don’t expand you got to be willing to

make mistakes and I think it’s the same

as with dancing if you’re afraid you

look stupid

if you’re your reserved and you’re off

on to the side of the club and you’re

just kind of moving one shoulder and

your little comfort bubble it looks

really stupid it looks way more stupid

than if you were actually going all out

and just having fun with it yeah I think

it’s the same thing with language don’t

just stick to your little comfort of

hello I’m fine thank you and you and

sound like a robot you got to have some

fun with it try to use those big words

that maybe you mess up that’s okay

that’s how you learn it’s like a kid so

let’s see your other one my tip my last

tip then is kind of general I guess I’ve

just chosen immersion this doesn’t

necessarily mean that you have to go to

the country you know where they speak

the language that you’re studying but

just find a way to even if it’s just for

a short period of time every day or once

a week or whatever it is if there’s some

some way that you can immerse yourself

in the language that you’re studying for

a period of time and only study you know

Spanish or only study English in your

case for at Fir for a period of time

every day or every week every month

whatever it is on a regular basis so you

get used to just hearing that and just

experiencing that I think is really

really helpful I think yeah I agree

uhm I think that’s no no that’s not um

I thought I thought I wrote it down yeah

I agreed one of the things that most

people don’t realize is that now it’s

the 21st century everyone’s connected so

a lot of people just assume that if you

move to the country you’re gonna pick up

the language because immersion is is one

of the best most you know time and time

again improved way proved ways to learn

a language but that’s not always the

case like I have a lot of friends in

different countries who don’t learn it

at all they’re married to a local but

they just it’s easy to just sit on

Facebook and talk to your old friends

and never actually you know practice and

put it out there so if you can’t make it

out to another country don’t worry about

it because even if you do is sometimes

you know it’s that mindset it’s actually

doing it yeah yeah okay what’s your last

tip our last tip is take grammar with a

grain of salt

so of course grammar is essential for

learning a language absolutely there’s

no doubt about it you should definitely

focus on that but what I found is that

when you’re learning from a non-native

English speaker they feel safe teaching

grammar because their set rules they can

teach even if their pronunciation isn’t

correct or any of that and you know you

you can just get into that rut but the

reality of most languages is we break

those rules all the time so don’t worry

too much if you’re if your grammars a

little off or you’re having trouble

learning it just just kind of go with it

and just try to repeat what you hear

yeah I don’t know about you though what

we know I think I think that’s an

interesting point though because I think

that like you say I think grammar is a

really safe place for a lot of people

because like you say there are there are

rules it’s clear that I can see that you

know if I put a noun and a verb like

this then I’m gonna make a sentence that

says this and I understand that it’s

really easy to understand but I think

that’s something that a lot of learners

and myself I’m guilty of this too is

that there’s a limit to how much grammar

that you can learn like once you learn

the grammar you’re you’ve you’ve learned

the grammar yeah it’s possible I think

to master the grammar of any language

but it’s the vocabulary that continues

to change every year there are new words

in every single language that gets

developed people are making up new words

every day especially in English so

experiment you know when once you find

that you know you’ve learned you’ve

learned the grammar move on you don’t

keep keep exploring new vocabulary

new and interesting things to do with

the tools that you’ve given yourself so

don’t be afraid to experiment with your

vocabulary too if you find something

that you might like to try to make a

verb out of like Google for example give

it a try see if it works if the other

people around you are confused maybe it

didn’t work if the other people around

you laughs or you know continue with the

conversation hey maybe you just made a

new word you never know so give it a try

thanks very much for joining us for our

English tips on this lesson we will see

you again next time bye hi I’m Alicia

welcome back to weekly words this week

I’m told might be something that’s gonna

be scary for me what is what is a header

in news this is gonna be bad the word

header anims means two separate words

with the same spelling but with

different pronunciation and meaning

really okay now that I understand it’s

not so scary let’s start okay the first

word is bass as in a type of fish or

bass which refers to someone’s voice

it’s also a type of instrument it kind

of looks like a guitar there’s also a

string bass that’s usually a really tall

instrument that you play standing up so

in a sentence when you’re fishing you

might say oh hey I hope I catch a bass

today if you’re a musical inclined

person you might say my favorite

instrument is the bass great those are

pretty good next is wind as in the air

blowing blowing air and wind as in like

to wrap something around something else

wind you might say the wind is really

strong today

I should have brought my kite to the

park okay

I don’t know everyone’s know these oddly

specific sentences wind like maybe you

have a ball of string at your house and

it’s gotten all tangled up it’s really

really messy and you find it one day and

you think to yourself oh I really need

to wind this ball of string into a clean

like tidy ball next a tear a rip in

something like you might tear a piece of

paper in half the same spelling can also

make the word tear which is

that drop of water that comes out of a

person’s eye when they’re sad or

sometimes when they’re very happy use

them both in one sentence

whenever I tear a piece of paper a tear

comes from my eye because I feel bad for

ruining trees or my my friend made me

tear up my favorite love letter and I

shed many tears as a result that one was

slightly better all right next is dove

dove can be a bird it’s a white bird it

often represents peace and it can also

be pronounced douve which is the past

tense of the verb to dive so you might

say the dove dove into

what is it Duff time into the dove dove

into oncoming traffic dove dove into the

pond to take a bath

next is close meaning to be near and the

other pronunciation is close meaning to

shut or it can also mean to end so in a

sentence let’s see if we can use them

both in the same sentence please close

the door that is close to you because

the show is coming to a close oh yeah

and that was all of them that was an

interesting lesson I hope that you guys

learn something if nothing else I think

it’s a good reminder that pronunciation

is important when you put emphasis on

one part of the word it might actually

change the meaning of the word entirely

so please be careful especially with

some of the words that we talked about

here today okay

thanks for joining us and I will see you

again next week bye bye

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