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
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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
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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
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say maybe at the beginning of the video
the second reason as you said is because
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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
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just for that one person so that’s one
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that are very very specific some people
send questions that are maybe about one
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trying to choose questions that are good
for everybody
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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
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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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