How To Study English When You Dont Have Time
hey today i’m going to give you five
methods to help you study
english when you don’t have time i’m
teacher tiffany let’s
jump right in all right method
number one method number one is
the 15 minute morning routine
basically you will create a 15 minute
morning routine
where you learn one word one expression
one idiom and one question for the day
this method focuses on making english a
priority at the start
of your day now i’m gonna explain how
you do this exactly using the steps but
don’t worry even if you’re not a morning
person
this method can help you now a lot of
you know that i’m a morning person if
you open the dictionary you will see my
name
and my picture next to morning person
why
because i get up around 4 a.m and i love
to get work done
early in the morning but this method is
for
early birds and night owls and let me
explain why
so here are the steps you need to go
through step number one
pick a specific time in the morning it
must be the same time
every single day again it’s up to you
for example for me i wake up at 4 00 am
but if you wake up
at 7 00 a.m 8 a.m or even 9 a.m
you can pick a time that matches your
schedule
so first pick a time in the morning that
matches
your schedule now step number two
for the first five minutes search
for one word one expression one idiom
and one question again one of each
not five words not five expressions
only one word one idiom one expression
and one question now step number three
this is what you’re going to do for the
next five minutes
memorize the word expression
and the idiom i know you’re smart i know
that you are super intelligent so
having three things to memorize in five
minutes i think it’s very possible
because you’re smart
so for the second five minutes you’re
going to memorize the word
the expression and the idiom now step
number four what you need to do
you need to for the last five minutes
read the question
and give your answer you need to
speak out loud let’s say for
today let’s say today is monday or
tuesday you find the question
tell me about your best childhood memory
alright
so you have five minutes to think about
the question and
answer it in english but you must say
your answer
out loud again this is a morning routine
you’ll do every single day
for only 15 minutes a short period of
time
but this method is very effective so let
me tell you the benefits
of this method here we go benefit number
one
you won’t feel stressed about studying
for a long period of time here’s
something that i want to explain to you
many times you get stressed or feel that
you don’t have time
because when you do go to study english
you don’t know what to study you have
books you have videos you have all of
these things that are surrounding you
and you’re like
i don’t have a lot of time and i don’t
know what to study so eventually you get
frustrated
and stop but using this 15 minute method
you won’t feel stressed because you know
exactly what you need to do
every single morning now let me look at
the
second benefit which is you will remain
laser focused during the 15 minute
period now
i really like this expression laser
focused so
i want you to imagine we’re on a
television show right maybe star wars a
star trek and they’re talking to each
other yep i see what’s going on over
there
star trek you know the space program
right and imagine that one of them
had lasers in their eyes right they said
oh
i see something and all of a sudden the
movie would have them
have lasers pointing out of their eyes
and focused on something
so when we say laser focused it means
just like in a tv show their eyes are
focused on something it means that you
have your eyes focused on
one thing it’s about focusing and
only looking at one thing so you’ll be
able to focus on
these one this this one thing this one
grouping of
expression word idiom and question
for a 15 minute period so you’ll be
laser focused all right
now the third benefit is you will feel
more
confident because you are studying every
single
day man when i say you know when it
comes to confidence i get a lot of
questions about confidence and speaking
in english from students
and maybe you’ve been one of those
students who have asked me that question
teacher how can i be confident in
english but a lot of times the
confidence and i talked about
it last week in last week’s video lesson
the confidence is because you don’t feel
like you’re doing
enough or you’re comparing yourself to
someone else
but if you start using this 15-minute
morning method
you’ll know hey i’m doing something
every day to improve my
english and it’s something that happens
psychologically
you’ll start admiring yourself like oh
man
i’m putting in time every single day
even though it’s a 15 minute period of
time
every single day in the morning i’m
studying hard and i know that i am
improving
and you will start to feel more
confident and even proud of yourself
so method number one is a very good
method for you to use
when you don’t have time to study
english alright
so method number two method number two
is
weekly flash cards now basically you
will create
50 weekly flash cards and carry 10
of them with you every single day this
method
focuses on regularly reviewing small
chunks of information and i’m sure you
know you’ve seen many of my videos where
i talk about the power
of studying in chunks so with this
method
you have flash cards and you’re going to
create 50 but don’t let that number
scare you
because remember these flash cards
50 flash cards will be used throughout
the entire week so let me explain how
you’re going to do this all right
so here we go step number one at the
beginning of the week select
50 things that you want to learn maybe
words
expressions idioms grammar rules
formulas etc
and i said things you want to learn you
don’t have to get a book and say
okay the book says do this this and this
no if you’re interested in music and you
want to learn more english
words related to music then make flash
cards
based on that interest or maybe you are
trying to learn more grammar rules make
flash cards
for that week about the grammar rules
again it’s
up to you this is your language journey
but you can use this method to
improve your english even when you don’t
have time all right so
step one is done step number two
on one side of the card write the title
or focus of the card again if you’re
trying to learn vocabulary on one side
write the word um happenstance or
fictitious you can look those words up
guys
all right so put the word the expression
the idea or concept the title
on one side of the card then step number
three
on the other side of the card write the
definition
explanation or example again on the
opposite side you want to make sure
you’re describing
what this card is all about now step
number four
every day select 10 different cards
and review them periodically throughout
the day
it doesn’t mean that you have to sit at
your desk at work and every hour
look at the card every hour look at the
card no as you think about it throughout
the day
oh let me kind of review a few things
that i have
uh okay i didn’t oh this word
interesting put it down and keep doing
what you’re doing
you want to be consistently connected to
the cards throughout the day
now step number five at the end of the
week
review all 50 cards to see which ones
you remember
again step number four says 10 different
cards every day
so by the time you get to the last day
you’ve already went through all 50 cards
and now you’re going to review and see
which ones you remember and which ones
you don’t remember
you’re giving yourself the opportunity
to take the information
in and then process it and see which
pieces of information you need to work
on some more
so what are the benefits of this method
here we go benefit number one
you will have a study plan for each week
study plans when you have a plan you can
reach
a goal all right benefit number two
you will be able to carry them with you
throughout the day
think about it you’re not gonna have a
book you’re just going to have these
cute little flash cards
put them in your pocket put them in your
purse ladies and what throughout the day
you can pick them out take them out
and review them so again you can carry
them with you throughout the day
the other benefit is you will be able to
start your own english
database from the collection of
flashcards now
this is something that i’ve emphasized
before in a previous video and to other
students
why you need to have your own english
database i told you all
again that if you want to use my
database that myself and teacher julie
created it’s called the weekly english
words database again
weeklyenglishwords.com and every week we
add
60 new vocabulary words expressions and
idioms
to the database along with english video
conversations
and explanations it’s a huge database
and again you can check it out
but by doing the flash cards every week
following this method
even when you don’t have time you’ll be
able to create your own database
and improve your english speaking
ability all right
now what about method number three
another great method
weekly english video now basically you
will select
and watch one english lesson video
every single day for a week this
method focuses on mastering the ideas
and
concepts presented in one video lesson
each week notice i said one lesson
not one lesson every single day no
one lesson for an entire week so for
example
let’s say you’re like man i am really
enjoying this
video from teacher tiffany it’s really
going to help me a lot
this may be the video that you want to
use for this method
that means you’ll watch this video again
tomorrow
and the next day and the next day for a
week
this method is very very useful and very
helpful because it will show you how to
master
a concept so let’s see the steps here we
go
step number one at the beginning of the
week find
one interesting english lesson the type
of lesson
is up to you for example multiple
vocabulary words
fluency formulas etc it’s truly up to
you
you can pick the one that you want step
number two
on day one watch the video lesson
without taking any notes i need to
stress this i need to emphasize this
do not take any notes on day one
teacher yes i’m telling you to put your
notebook down
put your pen down and simply watch
the lesson sometimes you don’t realize
how amazing your
brain is stop focusing on oh i gotta get
this i gotta get that
nope sit down watch the video
listen enjoy it but don’t take any notes
on day one
now on day two which is step number
three watch the video lesson
again and write down the things that you
learned
that’s right you’re gonna go on day two
watch it a second time
and this is when you can take your pin
take your notebook and start
writing things down now on day three
which is step number four
watch the video lesson again and write
anything else that you missed
the first two times you watched the
lesson
compare and combine your notes with the
notes
from day two notice we’ve just watched
taken notes and taken notes again we
haven’t memorized anything yet
alright now the next step step number
five step number five is also important
on day four
watch the video lesson again and then
write the three
main points of the lesson now for videos
about words or vocabulary
you can write the three words that you
liked the most
i want to explain this step step number
five to you
again you’re watching the video another
time right
but this time you’re looking for the
three main
points what’s happening is you’re
literally becoming
laser focused and trying to figure out
wait a minute
how can i summarize this video lesson
and that’s gonna help you think in
english because you’re gonna have to
learn how to
be concise say what you mean
and be clear and this is gonna help you
do that again
when you don’t have time this method is
still very useful
all right step number six on day five
watch the video lesson again and then
find
three ways to apply what you learned
to your daily life now we’re getting the
application phase
again the same video this is going to
get um how do i explain
you’re going to watch the video so much
that you’re going to feel like you can
predict
everything that’s being said which means
your english is also going to improve
you’re going to start recognizing
patterns but now you need to see wait a
minute
how can i apply what i’m learning from
this video to my
daily life no matter what it is it’s a
vocabulary word
okay figure out how you can apply that
word to your life
if it’s a concept or idea even like this
video
figure out how you can apply the lesson
to
your life in three ways alright
now step number seven for this method
on day six review what you wrote in your
notes on day one
two three four and five
you have to review because that’s how
the information
goes into your long term memory but this
method
is very useful again one english video
for an entire week
and you follow these steps but what
about method number four
another good one method number four well
it’s going to come in a second but
benefits i almost forgot to give you
guys the benefits but i got you don’t
worry here we go
alright benefits of method number three
you will naturally start to
understand and apply the information
benefit number two
you will master the idea concept and
or words and finally you will begin to
understand pronunciation
patterns and many more things again
that’s why i was saying
going over and over and over and over
again
repeating the same video actually is
gonna help your brain
process the information in a better way
so again
method number three is amazing now it’s
time to move on to method number four
all right here we go method number four
this one is pick one and use it so
basically you will pick one word
expression or concept for a day
and use it to describe your daily
activities
this method focuses on immediately
applying
what you learn to every part of your
life now again
this is something i always emphasize
when you learn something new
don’t just say oh that was good yes i
like
yes i like that word i like that new
concept
man teacher tiffany or another english
teacher wow they’re amazing
and that’s it no you have to apply
whatever it is that you are learning and
this method focuses on
helping you to apply what you learn even
though you don’t have a lot of time so
here we go
let’s look at the steps step number one
select one word expression or concept
again one word not six not
three not even two select one word
expression or
concept step two in the morning
find two activities that you can
describe
using the word expression or
concept so for example let’s say today i
learned the word
awesome now this is a word i know that
you know right awesome it means amazing
or really good
so let’s say i just learned awesome
though and i’m like wait a minute
today’s word is awesome in the morning i
have to find two activities that i can
describe
using this word so i can say ah
my mom is awesome she made breakfast for
my entire
family right all right then another
thing
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oh i can say man the weather today when
i went out to exercise
it was awesome so you see what i did i
found
two activities that happened in my life
two things my mom made breakfast
and then i went out to exercise so i
applied the word awesome to those two
activities
you need to do that now the next step
step number two
you need to in the afternoon do the
exact
same thing and step four in the
evening do the exact same thing again
you’ve chosen one word
expression or concept and in the morning
in the afternoon
and in the evening you’re gonna find two
activities so a total of
six activities that you can talk about
using the word expression or concept
this is going to help you so much again
even though you don’t have time you’re
still
studying you’re still learning how to
think in english and apply
what you learn so what are the benefits
here we go
benefit number one of this method number
one
you will start to think more in english
benefit number two
you will understand how easy it is to
connect
english to your life and benefit number
three
you will start to remember words
expressions and concepts
a lot faster the moment you take that
step to connect what you are learning
to your daily life is the moment when
everything clicks in your brain like oh
okay your brain gets excited too
and then you’ll have an easier time of
accessing the information from your
database
later on when you’re trying to speak in
english got you you got me right
okay all right method number five here
we go method number five
method number five is jot down quick
notes oh real quick
i’ve explained this expression but maybe
you don’t know it jot
down jot down just means to write very
quickly like a short note right
very quickly all right we say jot down
something
got it all right good so the fifth
method is
jot down quick notes basically you will
create
a phone or small notebook note every day
update it whenever you learn something
and review it at the end of the day
this method focuses on grasping the main
ideas or
concepts and reviewing them so as you go
throughout your day there are going to
be things you’re going to learn
maybe you overhear someone say something
in english you’re like oh i didn’t know
that
jot it down really quick note you’re not
searching for anything
just writing a quick note throughout
your day now this is going to help you
again
grasp main ideas because you’re just
writing the main thing you heard
right so let’s look at the steps for
this one here we go
step number one find a small notebook or
you can use your phone again we’re
living in the digital age so if you have
your cell phone with you all the time
you can use your cell phone instead of a
notebook that’s okay all right
now step number two as you go throughout
your day
quickly write down all the new english
words expressions or concepts that you
learn
remember that these should be very short
notes shouldn’t take you five minutes
just really quickly write it down and
keep moving on with your day
why because this method is going to help
you when you don’t have time
all right step number three at the end
of the day when you are relaxed take out
your notebook or
phone list and quickly review what you
learned that day all right so this is
very
important for you to do you’re going to
come back at the end of the day
you’re going to review what you learned
and then you’re going to be able to take
the
information in and keep moving on with
your life why because you didn’t take a
lot of time
you just reviewed the quick notes that
you made earlier now
what are the benefits of this method you
see right here i have four it says four
at the top
but that should be three should be three
right under method number five but i
know you got
me guys all right this is three a
three-step process
here we go benefits benefit number one
you will start to learn how to grab the
main points or ideas
in english benefit number two you will
create a database of new things that you
learned and benefit number three you
will get in the habit of thinking in
english throughout
your day you are going to
really take your english to the next
level using
this method now i hope you enjoyed
today’s lesson i really
think these methods are going to help
you study when you don’t have time
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thank you again so much for giving me
the honor of being your english teacher
i will see you next week same place same
time and teach you another
amazing english lesson i’ll see you then
but as always
remember to speak english
you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time
ay i said a story time
all right guys so you know that i love
story time and i know you guys love
story time too uh
for today’s story i want to talk about
a time when i didn’t have time to study
you all know i speak korean
and i also experienced the same time the
same thing
i didn’t have a lot of time but i want
to tell you what happened when i
found the time to study so when i was in
korea studying korean
i was working a full-time job i worked
in the morning the afternoon
and at night i worked very long
days so as you can imagine i really
didn’t have time
to study korean but i knew i needed to
learn
so i figured out ways i gave you some
methods today
to study korean and i made time to learn
korean even though i was busy now let me
tell you what the result
was so fast forward after i finally
could speak korean fluently
i was moved to a new school nothing
happened they just needed more help
there
um it was actually in yeongan uh for
those that are korean young institute um
hagwon the estee hague one samuel um
and i went to this school and in the
area the school was in
there weren’t too many foreigners i was
a small little town area
um really nice but there weren’t a lot
of foreigners the only foreigners that
were there
worked at the institute basically so
there may have been i think i could have
counted on my hand maybe
eight foreigners made eight to ten
including the ones that worked at our
institute um that i saw walking around
our little city
so it wasn’t like seoul so i lived in
seoul which was the main city of korea
and there were tons of
americans europeans africans there are
tons of people
so anyways i moved to that area and as
you can imagine
since there weren’t a lot of foreigners
a lot of americans there
that meant there also weren’t a lot of
african-americans
i was one of well there’s another
lady there but she was um she was from
africa from south africa really
great person but anyway so i went there
so i was one of maybe
two african-american women but the other
woman that worked there
she was light-skinned so even though she
was a black woman
she didn’t have uh her skin color was
not even close to mine right
and so anyways i’m i was okay i didn’t
mind i mean i’ve lived in korea for like
eight years at that time and
i loved koreans i was okay with you know
people staring and i would always answer
questions
um for example i would be on the train
and people would kind of touch my hair
because my hair is natural and they say
oh and then i just start talking to them
in korean and
we start a conversation and i explain to
them you know black hair
and how you really shouldn’t touch
people’s hair
and we’d have a good conversation so
anyways i got to this school
and i was uh placed in a class with
little kids now i
love children i love kids
i’ve mentioned munch my munchkins my
nieces many times i
call little kids munchkins so i went to
this classroom and it was a class full
of
cute munchkins they were i think
american age they were between five
and six if yeah between five six and i
think a few seven-year-olds but they
were very young
so remember i told you not only was it a
small city there were only
two black women in the city that i had
seen
and i was one of them and i was in this
class now with
five six and seven-year-olds so i was
the first black woman they had ever seen
so when i walked into the classroom they
stared
at me and again they didn’t know i could
speak korean so many of them stared at
me and pointed and some laughed
and they were only laughing because they
had never seen this skin color
in person so it was again children are
so inquisitive
they’re so curious and when they see
something they’ve ever seen before
they’re like
whoa what what is that so again i wasn’t
shocked
but they were so cute so i walked in and
they were kind of making comments
and i said hello to the teacher and then
i you know was going to start teaching
my class but then i realized
wait a minute these kids are small i can
speak korean
and i can kind of make them feel a
little bit more comfortable because
again
i was going to be their teacher they had
never seen
a woman that looked like me before they
didn’t understand me completely because
they were little they were just
starting to learn english so in
introducing myself
i started speaking in korean the whole
class
she spoke in korean and they said that
in korean right so of course they you
know they they were like
it’s okay are you korean and i was like
no i’m not korean
i’m i’m american so but again in the
innocence of children so
i taught the class but what happened was
over time now when i first went in the
classroom children are very
clingy they like to be around adults
they like to hold and hug
but again i was a strange person to them
so they really didn’t necessarily come
toward me
or like you know kind of want to be next
to me because i was strange to them
but because i spoke to them in korean
for part of the class
and again i taught in english of course
but over time they started to get to
know me more
and they started to see that i love
children
and they started to realize wait a
minute she may look different
she may not be korean but there’s
something about it that we like
so much so that fast forward about four
weeks four or five weeks
when i would walk in class they would
run up to me
and go they’d start speaking in korean
because they knew i could understand
and this teacher guess what i did today
at school and again
it just made me feel so good and i never
forgot when that connection when it
clicked for them
that even though i didn’t look like them
even though i wasn’t from their country
the fact that i could speak their
language and could understand them
made them connect with me and they would
hug me and then
teacher don’t go and i really really
loved being their teacher and it all
happened
because i decided to find the time when
i was busy
to study korean i wouldn’t have had that
same experience
if i hadn’t studied korean because the
kids would have taken
it taken a little bit longer to get
close to me because they didn’t know
they wouldn’t have known how to express
themselves in english
so why am i telling you this story trust
me i get it
studying english is not easy and it’s
harder
when you don’t have time you have a
family you have kids you have work
you’re in the midst of this pandemic and
a lot of things are going on
but using the methods i taught you today
even when you’re busy
you still can study even for a short
time
you can study english because when you
do you will realize
amazing experiences and amazing things
will happen
for you just like they happen for me
when i was able to connect
to the little munchkins when i was in
korea all right guys that’s all i have
for you i just want to encourage you
again
follow the five methods if you want to
keep studying with me
remember you can go to speak english
with tiffany.com
speak english with tiffanyacademy.com
and if you want to
join and become a member of our english
database go to weeklyenglishwords.com
all right guys thank you so much again
i’m honored to be your teacher
i will see you next week same time same
location
bye