Methods To Help Remembering New Words Quickly

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question this week comes from Sarah gay

hi Sergei Sergei says what methods would

you recommend to remember English words

as fast as possible and for a long time

Thanks

aha common question I would suggest that

you begin using the words right away so

I imagine many learners have a

vocabulary list maybe it’s a digital

list or a list you write by hand

whatever when you learn a new word begin

using the word right away

so I don’t mean like reading the word or

learning the spelling of the word that’s

great but start making sentences with

the words so write a sentence and then

say the sentence out loud so use the

word right away and then maybe at the

end of the same day read the sentence

again write the sentence again say the

sentence again so use the word again the

next day do it again maybe make a new

sentence using the same word so try to

say that sentence again try to say the

previous day sentence again so use the

word don’t just put the word into your

head actually create something with the

word this is huge very important it’s

actually like to create something with

the new words that you’re learning so

you do this you know every day and then

a few days later you refresh the word a

week later you refresh the word so in

the beginning it takes time you maybe

need to refresh your mind refresh your

memory a lot as you learn new vocabulary

words but then you also need to get used

to using those words in your everyday

life so try to maybe make a list or like

a group of words you want to focus on

for like one week or two weeks at a time

and so you practice that group of words

like every day or you make a study plan

to focus on this group of words for this

month or something like that so do that

with those words that you really really

want to use maybe they’re words that are

extremely important to your everyday

life like your studies or your work or

maybe a hobby for example so I would

suggest doing that and spacing out your

repetition to do that so if you want a

tool that can help you to do this kind

of thing

there are spaced repetition systems like

spaced repetition flashcard tools a very

popular one is a tool called Anki so you

can download like vocabulary word decks

groups of vocabulary words and study

those and the software or the system

will automatically tell you when is the

next time to study so you’ve finished

your study session and then later a few

hours later or a day later or something

you can study the same words again and

it will remember how well you did the

previous time so it spaces out how often

you see your vocabulary words and helps

you refresh things and a good pace for

your studies and for your like your

memory so that might be a good tool to

use but as I said don’t just read don’t

just see the words on a screen make sure

you use the words as well so I hope that

this helps you to understand new

vocabulary words and to be able to

remember them for a long time good luck

with your studies okay let’s move on to

your next question next question this

week comes from Mellie

hello Mellie Mellie says you say and I

answer them

maybe at the opening of the video this

maybe means if I can or you ask plenty

of questions and I pick randomly so

maybe I can or I can’t pick yours Thanks

yeah actually both both are true the

reason that I chose that beginning the

you ask questions and I answer them

maybe I chose that introduction for both

of those reasons so one is actually I

don’t know for sure if I answered your

question

so sometimes viewers send a question and

maybe I don’t completely understand what

they want to know or maybe my answer

doesn’t give them 100% of the

information so I hope I try my best to

answer the questions completely

I don’t know for sure that I’ve answered

the viewers question I don’t know for

sure that I’ve answered your questions

so that’s one that’s one reason why I

say maybe at the beginning of the video

the second reason as you said is because

there are lots of questions that get

sent to us for this series so sometimes

the questions are like very common

questions so we get for example lots of

questions about how to use present

perfect tense or we get lots of

questions about how to use have and had

or would could and should those words so

because there are so many questions like

that I might not choose your question

about that topic I tried to choose

questions that I hope can be like new

and interesting and helpful for lots of

people who are watching the channel not

just for that one person so that’s one

reason also there are some questions

that are very very specific some people

send questions that are maybe about one

specific sentence and so for other

people maybe it’s not so helpful so I’m

trying to choose questions that are good

for everybody

so that’s the second reason why I say

maybe I might not choose the question

that you send even if you do send it

thank you so much for sending but yes

there are those two reasons why I say

meaty at the beginning to every video in

this series so I hope that that helps

you thanks for this question okay let’s

move on to your next question this week

next question for this week comes from

comb a Hello comb a comb a says what is

the difference between ongoing and in

progress

great question ongoing is an adjective

we can place ongoing before the noun

that it modifies we can also place on

going after the noun that it modifies

but we connect the two with is some

examples this is an ongoing project this

project is ongoing in progress on the

other hand is not an adjective it’s in a

preposition and progress a noun so

progress means like movement forward or

some kind of improvement that’s what

progress means so we can imagine in

Prague

to mean like in the condition of making

progress so that’s kind of like a long

way to say this small phrase in progress

in the conditioner in the state of

making forward progress

so we tend to use this after the noun

that it modifies so some examples of

this construction is in progress on our

office building this project is a work

in progress so I hope that helps you

understand the differences between

ongoing and in progress thanks very much

for this question ok let’s move on to

your next question next question comes

from Marcelo Veloso hello Marcello

Marcello says hi Alicia how’s it going

here in Brazil when actors and actresses

play roles in soap operas movies and TV

shows they don’t talk like ordinary

people they talk a little formally I

would like to know if the same thing

happens in the USA mm-hmm nice question

but generally no actors and actresses

don’t speak more formally they do

however change their speaking for the

setting in which they are acting so for

example if you’ve seen a movie where the

story features royalty so like kings and

queens

you might hear the actors using very

formal language because that’s the

language that’s appropriate for a very

formal setting so they use that language

not because it’s like a movie but

because it’s like a king or a queen

they’re speaking - so they should speak

formally on the other hand if you’ve

seen the movie like a cowboy movie like

an old western movie you’ll hear the

characters speaking in a very rough

manner so they choose the way that they

speak or the way that they speak is kind

of determined by the setting of the

media so it’s not that the media itself

causes actors and actresses to speak a

certain way it’s like the story itself

they speak to match the story I will say

that probably in most cases actors and

actresses tend to speak a little bit

more clearly yes they speak very quickly

but they tend to speak a little more

clear

in media because it’s important for the

audience to be able to catch all the

words that are being said so you might

hear them speaking a little bit more

clearly but no not necessarily more

formally so level of formality is

determined by the story the characters

in the story and the relationships in

this story so I hope that that helps you

thanks very much for the question okay

let’s move on to your next question next

question this week comes from Michael

hello Michael

Michael says hi Alicia the verbs wood

and pad have the same form of

contraction apostrophe D how do I know

what verb this form of the contraction

means great question okay to know which

form look at the word that comes after

the apostrophe D for example I’d like a

glass of water I’d eaten by the time my

roommate got home okay so in the first

example sentence I’d like a glass of

water the word that comes after ID is

like like is a simple present tense verb

in the second example sentence I’d eaten

by the time my roommate got home we see

eaten which is the verb eat in the past

participle form so we break these down

and we see I’d like becomes I would like

or I had like so we know I had liked is

incorrect that’s not proper grammar we

know therefore it should be

I would like we can do the same thing

with the second example sentence I’d

eaten could be either I would eaten or I

had eaten we know that I would eaten is

grammatically incorrect so we can

understand therefore it that when we see

that apostrophe D followed by a simple

present tense verb we can understand

that that’s actually an I would

construction apostrophe D followed by a

verb in the past participle form however

indicates the past perfect tense I had

eaten I’d eaten so you don’t actually

need to focus on that apostrophe D focus

on the grammar of the sentence as a

whole so we’re looking at the verb that

comes after this

not to the apostrophe D itself the clue

is actually in the next word so I hope

that this helps you identify the

differences in the future thanks very

much for this question great so that is

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