How to Improve Your English While Commuting

hey everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about how to learn English on your commute I will give you some ideas for your studies that you can use on your way to work or on your way to school and of course on the way home as well so today will be just some study ideas some methods that you can consider I'm going to cover some ideas whether you go by bus or by train or you drive a car or even if you work from home maybe just a couple of ideas to consider to start and end your day so we're going to cover reading and writing and speaking and listening ideas and of course if you have some ideas please feel free to send those in the chat as well so we will take a couple of minutes to get our videos set up everywhere so as you join please make sure to like and share the video so that other people can find today's lesson and of course send a message along in the chat and we will try to get everything going in just a minute Facebook is 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started everybody's here now I see lots of people in the chat yeah very good I'm glad so I didn't say hi to everybody on YouTube Mostafa Joe number one russer hello hello and on Facebook everyone's there max Mohammed Emma lied Malika hello everybody great okay everyone is here so we can get started fantastic let's begin today's topic how to learn English and if you missed the beginning Facebook might have been a little slow in the beginning if you missed it today's topic is how to learn English during your commute if you have not already please do make sure to like and share today's lesson okey-dokey let's get started so first I want to talk about some listening and some speaking ideas for maybe those of you who drive a car or you have some kind of private space where you can practice on your way to and from work so first idea first study idea is to listen to and repeat after I do lessons audio lessons so for those of you who have an account on our website at English class 101 you can download and listen to our audio lessons there are about a 10 or 15 minutes long some are a little bit shorter so I'm a bit longer so if you have this kind of private space where you can actually repeat like you're in the privacy of private space in your own car or maybe like in your house in the morning you can actually repeat after the lessons if you don't have a private space maybe you can just listen to the audio lessons so some thoughts about this is first choose a lesson that's focused on a key expression or a specific target so when you're choosing like which audio lesson to study during your commute maybe it's better to choose a lesson that's focused on something like this likes some ideas might be how to introduce yourself so how to say like my name is and so on or how to order at a restaurant or how to talk about your hobbies these are just a few ideas the reason I would suggest these kinds of lessons are because if you especially if you're driving it's really important to focus on the road right so you want to make sure you can easily listen and repeat the information studying grammar trying to think about grammar might be a little bit difficult to do so try to choose a specific target for the lesson like you're trying to you have a specific expression you're practicing or you have like a specific phrase or question that you're practicing so choose a lesson that's focused on a key expression another idea is if your commute is 20 plus minutes or 20 plus meaning 20 or more minutes then you can think about this idea do one new lesson so you have a new lesson on your way like like your first lesson is a new lesson so a lesson you have not studied before and then you do a review so you review like the previous day's lesson or you review an old lesson something like that so if you if you have this time you can give yourself the opportunity to learn something new like a new expression a new a new phrase a new question and you have the opportunity to review something from a previous study session so this can be good if you have a longer commute or if you just have a little bit more time on your way to work or school or of course on the way home as well okay and then the last point here is just remember to review on your way home so whatever lesson you listened to in the morning consider listening to that lesson again on your way home so like eight hours nine hours later ten hours later depending on your schedule so this is something you can do as I said of course you can listen to it just listen to the lesson if you're on like a train or a bus and there are other people around but if you're in a car you can actually speak like repeat after the native speaker repeat after the person who's talking in the lesson so some ideas you can check out we have lessons we have audio lessons on our website of course so please have a look at those there if you don't know at English class 101 not to come we do have audio lessons lots and lots of audio lessons there so please check those out some other ideas especially for like intermediate or advanced learners some listening ideas our English news English news especially English news for learners so if you google just English news for learners or English for learners I'm sorry English news sites for learners you can find some resources online where people will share the news but they use a specific English a specific type of English for learners for people who are studying so they'll introduce key vocabulary points idioms and other expressions finally another cool idea is podcasts podcast if you don't know what a podcast is a podcast is kind of like a radio show but a podcast is made like by individual people so you can choose a topic that's interesting to you and find a show about that so you can do this like with your phone like just with your smart phone if you have a smart phone or even if you don't have a smart phone you can search for podcasts on like Apple podcasts or Spotify or other podcast libraries directories and you can find a topic that suits your interest so if you have maybe if you have a podcast that you like you can send it in the chat so other people can find it so if you have a recommendation for something you like to listen to you can check that out and oftentimes podcasts have notes there are like notes about each episode of the podcast so you can check maybe some of the key information in written form there so that's another resource that you can consider okay uh let's see let's continue on Facebook you're saying that there's something silly with the live stream I get I'm getting a couple of comments on Facebook I see I see some comments on Facebook we're working on it so let's go let's see we're about ten minutes in so let's take one quick break and then we'll continue on with part two for today's lesson all right let's review this point let's here this week we're a little bit different if you don't know today well it's actually this week 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today's topic is how to learn during your commute how to learn English or other languages on your commute so I've talked about learning with audio listening to an audio lesson or like to news into podcasts and if you can repeating after the native speakers so let's go to part 2 then part 2 part 2 excuse me is to use an app or a site to study vocabulary words so app this word app a PP app means application a smartphone application so you can use an app or a website some tool that you prefer to use to study vocabulary words this is one that I did for a couple years in the morning and at night that's true I had an app I studied Japanese on my way to work and on my way home from work 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening because I knew vocabulary was my weak point and this was so helpful for me I learned new words every day and I could use them at work every day - so this was personally really really helpful for me every day some ideas I've talked about this app unki a nki unki is a free flashcard app a flake free flashcard and like a vocabulary basically a study tool so you can choose I'll talk about in a moment you can choose like a group of words and you can study them inside on key this free tool so when you use unki you can choose like when you see a word appear in the app you can say yes I know this word or I don't really know this word or I totally don't know this word and according to your answer the software will remember your like your level of like ability to identify that word so it will show you the word again at a later time according to your answer so that's cool also of course if you don't know about our website we do have stuff on our website too an English class 101 some of the features are free so you don't have to have a paid account to get access to some of these the free things that we have there our vocabulary list so if you go to the website and you click on vocabulary in the men you you can choose vocabulary lists vocabulary lists so you can access the vocabulary lists for free and you can access the 100 core words lists for free too so if you do that you'll see there's a picture for the vocabulary word or the expression and there's also audio so you can listen to that as well so these are a couple of ideas for places to study places to get vocabulary lists to study and how to study those so what you can do is when you when you are deciding what to study what app or website to use choose a list of words or a list of phrases or a deck so deck it comes from like a deck of cards the word we use in English is a Dec Dec K so that means one set a group of playing cards so on key this software I talked about they use what's called decks it's like a group of vocabulary words or a group of phrases but in other software like we have vocabulary lists so choose a list or choose a deck of words that you want to study and you can choose from lists already available so for example we already have a lot of vocabulary lists prepared that you can choose from or you can make your own list so if you want to make your own list yes it can take some time but you also have that ability to make your own list for something and create your own kind of deck or your own group of words in your vocabulary study app okay uh I don't see specific questions to today's lesson so let's continue on to this point I mentioned already study on your way to and from work in school so I mentioned earlier but when I was studying vocabulary like really focusing on studying vocabulary I would study in the morning I had a nap in my case I was using a Japanese study app I studied in the morning like as soon as I got on my subway my subway train and in the morning I started and then when I arrived at my work like my station I stopped and that was about 15 minutes in the morning I did the same thing on my way home at night so it seems like a short time but in one day that's 30 minutes of study and over the course of a week and over the course of months that's a lot actually so this was this strategy was super helpful for me to build my vocabulary so I really really like this I can recommend this for improving your vocabulary someone I mean hun said write down myself yeah if you if you can like that's great to practice your writing to to write the words as well I think that's great I guess it depends a little on what you want to focus on if you want to just get new vocabulary in your head you can use just an app if you want to practice the vocabulary and practice reading and writing with the vocabulary sure that sounds great too okay Oscar says what does commute mean a commute commute means your travel to and from work or school so every day many people have a commute to work or a commute to school so commute commute I'll write it on the board your commute mean travel to and from work or school or other other obligations may be so travel to and from work in school is your commute other questions yes someone says how do i improve my English when commuting that is today's lesson topic so please check out all of these tips for today all right we're about 20 minutes in so I guess I'll take one more break in case you missed it earlier so in case you missed it today's special exciting thing is not pdfs as usual we have our Black Friday sale or Black Friday sale is 51% off the plans in English class 101.com so if you've been thinking about signing up this is a really really good chance to do that so this is one of I think the biggest sales that we have for the year so please make sure to check this out you can find the link for this from below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you are watching on Facebook okay also if you're watching on Instagram sorry I can't see your comments live but please check out everything on YouTube or Facebook okay let's continue uh time is going quickly as always to a couple more ideas and in this section especially for number four here I hope that you can share a few ideas with everyone to the first or rather the third the third idea for your commute is to read news sites in English to practice your reading skills so I know I know I do this all the time like I open Twitter and I check the news but I check like English news like my native language news so a thing to consider is just to shift your thinking and start trying to read news articles in English in your case if you're learning English so sometimes I do this I'll try to read focus and read in Japanese something so that's really helpful for me some ideas if you want to look for something that you can read you can try like the BBC you could try the New York Times you could try CNN these are all like online they have online news articles I put the BBC here first because the BBC has a program specifically for English learners so you can find like video news and you can find written news articles that have English specifically for people who are learning so they share keywords they talk about special idioms they talk about special expressions a thing to consider though the BBC is British English so the BBC will sound very different from me for example they have a different accent there but you can read the articles for sure but just keep in mind pronunciation and some expressions are a little bit different from American English New York Times is an American publication as is CNN these are both American publications maybe if you if anybody out there has something that they like as well they can suggest it and I will write it here uh which one do you recommend for beginners for beginners I would recommend you do a google search I mentioned it in topic and point number one today but if you do at English Google search this English news for learners English news for learners there are a few actually quite a few a lot there are a lot of services that provide news articles at different levels so check around to find something that suits your level there are many different sites you can check those out see which is maybe the best for you so I recommend a google search for this Google English news for learners you can find a list of publications of other services that have this so I would suggest you try this and find something that's good for you someone says for news Julian says news in levels ok news in levels sounds like a good one other specific questions I don't see any yet hello from Minnesota a Facebook okay so let's get to you on then if you have another suggestion send it in the chat I'll try to write it here if I catch it I want to conclude my last idea are really my last tip is to get creative with your studies so these are of course like tips one two and three today are fairly straightforward things you can do but I would encourage you to get creative with how you study and how you practice and again not just listening to things not just reading things but working on producing things so these are tips that you can use if you're on a train or a bus or a subway something you don't have to drive right you can read or you can type in an app or something some other ideas you can make a social media post so a great example of this I met a person of many years ago actually I was so impressed he he was a yeah he was studying English he lived in I think the UK for maybe two or three years and came back to his home country but he wanted to continue using English so he had a one-hour commute to and from work every day this is a true story and he's created what he called and on the way album post so for his everyday English study practice he listened to an album he liked like a 60-minute about one hour so music he listened to it and then he wrote a social media post like a review about the album so he talked about each song on the album he talked about the history of the album so he was listening to new music which was his hobby and he was using English so he made a bilingual social media post every single day five days a week on his commute so that to me that was amazing like he said it was really hard actually really really hard to do but I thought that was such a creative a creative way to combine his hobbies and his studies yeah so that's one idea make a social media post I like to do this to actually when I post on social media I try to do it bilingually I tried to write my social media posts in English and in Japanese that's one way for me to study others I'm looking for your questions I don't see other questions yet so a couple more ideas right in an english-only journal right in an english-only journal this can be on your phone it can be a physical journal it can be something that you type like on WordPress or another journal software so right in an english-only journal that's another way to create your using vocabulary that you're learning maybe you can write about a recent news story something like that or you can use something that you heard in an audio lesson so this is another idea you can do again on your commute if you're not driving a car so write in an English only journal that's something else you can do and another idea read an english-only Twitter feed so I've seen a lot of people seen some people have followed me on Twitter that's they make an English study account I've seen this on Twitter actually a couple on Instagram - they make English only or like accounts specifically for their studies so you can open that Twitter feed and check only things in English so these are a couple of different ideas for kind of more creatively using your language skills and developing your language skills um all right some other things viola says can you tell me about audio please i talked about audio lessons in point number one so if you missed it you can check out some ideas for studying with audio lessons this is being recorded so when we finish you can go back and check out point number one yeah someone else says how do i improve my listening please check point number one from today's lesson I think that's good for listening specific tips how to take notes fast while listening well why why do you need to take notes fast you can take notes and pause and take notes and pause as well I think it's okay to go at your own pace it's okay to do that some other and if you have other ideas for your studies yeah will include I'll include them here so please feel free to send something kay says how about reading and listening to us president's speeches it's something you can do sure but just keep in mind speeches are very different from the way that we speak in everyday life so you might get some interesting vocabulary you might learn some specific vocabulary for politics and for government but just keep in mind that's it's different from the way that people talk in everyday English so I mean you can learn something of course someone says can I learn using chatroulette mm-hmm I really don't know I would suggest maybe not using chatroulette like I feel like it's better to do something to approach your studies to study with some kind of material you've prepared or like you can kind of guess a little bit what what the other person is going to say so mmm I don't know if chatroulette is the best the best way to study good be I don't know I have not used it so I can't say other ideas other ideas someone says right go slowly I can't right this video is being recorded you can watch it back again uh other points some people say I can't understand songs well some ideas if you want to use music if you want to use music I'll include that here listen to music if you want to include music in your studies I would suggest and if you can't understand the songs google the lyrics look for the lyrics of the songs that's what I did when I first started studying Japanese I couldn't understand the music I had no idea what they were saying so I googled it and I had to find it in like English characters and then I had to study the grammar and then I had to study vocabulary so many different things so if you can't understand the songs google the lyrics and then study the lyrics line by line that is exactly what I did when I first started that's a true story that is exactly what I did so that was my strategy to understand songs but also keep in mind not all songs in English used correct to grammar sometimes we change the lyrics of the songs or we change the way we say words to fit the song so please keep that in mind music in English is not perfect English or isn't that what should I say music in English is not textbook English please keep that in mind other points I don't see any oh ma see ya hey Messiah on Facebook says watching on YouTube with subtitles is very useful odd it's a great idea I'll put that in number four so watch YouTube watch youtube videos with subtitles nice point great of course we have many covers we have many many YouTube videos with subtitles so you can please watch our videos we would be very happy if you watched our videos yes thanks mulling a great tip great tip why do words in English have ten meanings not always do they have ten meetings many words in many languages have many different meanings so it's up to it depends on the word it depends on the word okay someone says in discord I talk everyday with native people uh yeah discord that's another one so I have not used discord myself but to my understanding you can make communities have you used this part yes you can make it easy you can make communities with maybe people who play the same video game as you or people who have the same hobby or interest as you so that's another good one all right all right is this a discord groups discord communities I don't know the word they use in discord discord chats okay discord chats that's a nice idea nice one okay other points yeah great ideas everybody I like that uh Tiago also says watch movies with subtitles yes so I have YouTube yeah but watching movies with subtitles can be helpful also very nice ideas alright oh my I am late sorry thank you for your ideas everyone sorry I got excited about the chat so I'm sorry about that I have to finish unfortunately but these are some ideas you can use for learning during your commute so on your way to or on your way from home from school or work so I hope that you found some ideas some new things you can do with just 10 or 15 minutes in your day it adds up you can do a lot of things over time so we'll finish there for today but we will of course be back next week next week's topic is yes how to talk about your work with present perfect tense everybody always wants to practice present perfect tense next week I'm going to focus on talking about your work or your studies with present perfect tense if you don't know present perfect tense present perfect is like that I have been I have done I have worked and so on next week I probably won't talk a lot about present perfect continuous but maybe we'll see so join us next week that will be December Wow December 5th Wednesday Wednesday December 5th 2019 nothing p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is New York City time if you don't know your local time please google it or set a notification on YouTube or Facebook so that you don't miss the video so join us to talk about your work with a key grammar point next week I will finish here for today please don't forget to check out this the 51 percent off sale our Black Friday sale you can find the link below the video if you're watching on YouTube or above the video if you're watching on Facebook if you're watching on Instagram please check the YouTube or Facebook to get your excellent deal we will finish there so thank you everybody for joining us as always live this week we really appreciate it and thank you very much for liking and for sharing the video too and I hope that you enjoyed the rest of your day and the rest of your week we'll see you again soon

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Length: 34min 36sec (2076 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 27 2019