How to Learn and Remember New English Vocabulary

hi everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're gonna talk about how to study and remember English or any other languages vocabulary so today I'm going to talk about a method of study called spaced repetition and I'm going to give you some tips for where to get your vocabulary lists how to use them and when to study like how often to study so if you have been sending questions to us about studying vocabulary like many of you have I hope that this lesson has some useful tips for you this is something that lots of you asked about so I hope this can help many people of course if you have questions please send them in the chat and I will try to check them live throughout the session today okay I see a few people joining as you join us live please do send us a message in the chat and make sure to like and share the video so other people can find today's lesson we're going to begin in about one or two more minutes I guess while we wait there's in case 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today's lesson I'm going to look at using spaced repetition to study vocabulary but this is something you can use to study pretty much any other kind of memorization related topic so it's not just for studying language but it is an excellent tool for studying language so let's begin here this is a keyword for today's lesson spaced repetition spaced repetition so what is spaced repetition why do we need it why is it useful first the concept spaced repetition is studying with spaces between your study sessions so this is different like the opposite the opposite is what we call a cram session a cram session or like cramming style studying so cramming style studying I did this when I was a student maybe many of you do it cramming is like the night before a test you pick up like your vocabulary or you pick up your topic and you just try to study everything in one night like you put it all in your brain for a short period of time and then use it for the test but the problem with cramming is that you forget it like after the test you just forget everything you studied so you study a lot in a short period of time remember for a short period of time and then you forget so this spaced repetition is different from cramming so cramming CR a.m. that's how you spell this is one time like a one time study session space repetition though the idea is that the first time you study something this is like a kind of basic schedule over a couple of weeks and a couple of months in this case the first time you study something or rather at the beginning of like the first time you learn a new word or the first time you learn a new grammar point you need to refresh your memory a lot so refreshing your memory is important to learn something long-term not just for one day so the first time you study something let's say it's like a new vocabulary word or a new group of vocabulary where it's for example like if you decide okay I'm gonna study all of these words on this PDF so you study them all one time then you need to study again really soon because they're new like it's all new information and you need to refresh your brain again it's like it's all new so I need to I need to be reminded of the new information again so maybe you study once on like like today you study and then again tomorrow you study the same things and maybe you forgot its natural like that's normal to forget a few things so you review those things then you study again like two days later maybe the same things and gradually you make more and more space between your study sessions so maybe in week one you study the same words like four times for example and then in week two you study like two times or something like that and then further and further you study like once a month or whatever you have to give your brain time to remember the word and in order to do that you need to study several times over a longer period of time so you can already see this is very different from just cramming everything in so trying to put everything into your head is great for a short period of time but if you want to remember vocabulary if you actually want to be able to use your vocabulary for a long period of time you have to keep refreshing your brain you have to keep reminding yourself so that you can actually remember these words okay so a couple other points about this set a spaced repetition like this this is a good concept but I know many people are super busy of course so it's hard to remember like when to study like when did when was the last time I studied or when was the last time I studied this word or this group of words so now we have software we have software that can tell us when to study that tells us okay it's time for your study session like you can use your phone you can use an app you can use software you can use like our our stuff the stuff we have in English class 101.com you can use lots of different tools to help you remember what time to study and what words to study also but a couple of things first remember in most cases software is input only so by that I mean if you use an app like you decide you're going to use in apt to study vocabulary words you read the word on your app like okay this is the word beautiful and you remember it yes but you have to be responsible for the output so not just reading the words not just remembering the words that's where you have to be responsible if your software doesn't have like an output option some software's do if your software does not have that you have to be responsible to say the word to write the word to make a sentence with the word so these are examples of output so you need to be using the words that you learn don't just put them in your head but actually use the words so this is another really important point to remember so not just input like if you can read the word great that's fantastic but to use the word you have to actually like use it you have to actually make things create things okay ah then final point here if you don't want to use a software you can use flashcards just basic flashcards so writing something writing something on a piece of paper or writing something on small cards and quizzing yourself like every day that's another way to do it it may be just kind of difficult to do on a specific schedule so software is really helpful okay so that is the point first point for today I haven't checked the chat in a while because I wanted to explain today's concept ah any questions specifically about vocabulary words I'll try to look at those I see people just write in comments about yes this is helpful this is helpful okay cool yeah some people uh Anissa on Facebook says I always forget vocabulary totally me too me too I totally forget vocabulary so refreshing your memory a lot you need to be able to refresh your memory remind yourself of those words you studied back here and to do that effectively you need to study now and then not just one time or two times but you need to study regularly so it's like reviewing and another kind of cool feature of this is that when you study you can review old words and learn new words at the same time so you can put like a new group of words into your study like plan or your study sessions and you can like learn new words like if you've studied one group of words for a long time cool and then maybe at this study session you introduce a new group of words that's starting here so that's really cool there's lots of really cool things you can do with software okay Eric says he has many questions all right thanks Eric okay am i the same woman on the other English livestream probably there are a few of us teachers on the livestreams okay someone lindomar says i use flashcards with my students as well yeah great great okay someone Gabriella says the big problem is pronunciation ah so if vocabulary if you can remember vocabulary words but remembering pronunciation is difficult then as I said remember to practice output so when you read the word if you know that pronunciation is difficult for you practice output like say the word at the same time as you see it on your flashcard so don't just read it and if you don't know the pronunciation lots of you say this if you don't know the pronunciation of a word go to an online English dictionary for example Merriam Webster's or Collins dictionary they have a button on every word in the dictionary so you can hear the pronunciation in American English and usually British English too so go to dictionary it's totally free you can check the pronunciation of any word in English okay good so I'll take a quick break there and then we'll talk a little bit about some other ideas some ways to get words and when to study so quickly not I don't know maybe not so quickly I said there's new there's new PDFs I'll show you on this amra over here there are new PDFs that we have for you to download I was looking at this one because of course our lessons are online I'm sorry this is the this is a new PDF talking online is the topic of this so there are all of these vocabulary words you can use for your devices and on the back some useful sorry hard to see some useful expressions don't do this useful expressions you can use on the internet on social media up here these abrete like these little initialisms and then a couple of other well a lot of other vocabulary words here so this is an example of something you could make a group of flashcards with these words you could study these as one topic of study at a time other new things I saw a couple other ones I wanted to show you especially which were here's another one but I thought was good sports some of you have asked about sports recently this is a sports and exercise vocabulary page so again another group of vocabulary words you can train using a spaced repetition so to help you remember all of these words more effectively so these are just a couple of examples of the new PDFs that we have I'll show you some more again later but like I said if you grab if you download like a PDF for example and make a set of flashcards or if you use an a spaced repetition software you can practice like you know for two weeks one of these PDFs and master that so this can be a great tool like to get some words to get a list of vocabulary words to study so I will show you more of these later okay let's move on then to the next part of today's lesson yes the PDFs are free you can get them if you have an account at English class 101 dot-com check the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on Facebook if you're watching on Instagram please check YouTube or Facebook and sorry I cannot see your comments live okay so let's continue to part two for today also a quick reminder if you haven't yet please make sure to like and share the video so other learners can find today's lesson let's go to part two part two I started talking about it a little already word lists so some of you say how do I find vocabulary words to study like why like how do I know which words I need to study here are some ideas first you can download vocabulary lists from existing software so existing this means someone made this vocabulary list that's what it means there are already lots and lots of vocabulary excuse me vocabulary lists on the internet you can download for free especially if you use a spaced repetition software so I keep saying spaced repetition these spaced repetition software's are called SR s like spaced repetition systems or spaced repetition software's so you can find s RS decks or lists of words that already exist on the internet if you have an SRS like app or something you can maybe find it inside your app so for example if you are an English class 101.com member I think if you have the basic premium or Premium Plus subscription you can access we have word lists and a flashcard system so you can practice we already have like I think a group of 2000 core words for English so you can use those if you have an account on the website if you have paid accounts you can access all of the word lists so you can check those out too another thing you can do if you want a free resource this is a very popular SRS spaced repetition tool it's called Anki a and and ki this is a free software that you can download to practice memorization so if you don't if you don't have like budget to buy like a software or something you can get this and they have what are called decks so deck a deck is like a deck of cards playing cards yeah so we imagine our like wordless or flashcards are like a deck also so you can download a deck of like thousands and thousands and thousands of cards and you study with something that looks like this so in in the software there's the vocabulary word and then there are some buttons you can choose at the bottom so you see the word and you have to ask yourself do I remember this word or not you can choose no I don't remember this word at all or it's a little hard or it was okay I got it it was okay or it was very easy so you choose an answer to this and the software remembers your answer the software remembers your answer and chooses when to quiz you again on the same word so these kinds of software are super super useful for remembering which words to study like which words were easy which words were difficult for you the software remembers for you so you don't have to remember so your responsibility is to open the software to make some time to study so this is a free resource that you can use as I said we have of course our vocabulary lists on our website if you are already a member there and I mentioned to our PDFs so if you know there's some topic you want to study like this is shopping at the supermarket vocabulary word this is one about making plans with time so like talking about schedules so if there's a specific topic you want to focus on you can take a PDF one of these and put all of these vocabulary words into your software to practice study that way so there are many ways that you can use existing information to create your word lists some other ideas you can look for specific news articles so if for example you're interested in politics and you have like a website you always read you can choose a specific news article and take key vocabulary words from the article put it into your vocabulary study system and you can practice those vocabulary words until you master them other ideas you can use blogs so if there's a blogger or maybe even someone's social media feed maybe you can use those you can use those resources as vocabulary word resources so when you see a new word you have to kind of train yourself see a new word take the word put it into my flash card like deck or my group of flashcards so that I can study it so these are just a few ideas of places you can get word lists of course your textbooks also have word lists if you use text books that's another idea as well of course if you have other ideas you can send them in the chat so that other people can see your ideas too but these are some places where you can get lists of words already made and some ideas for how you can custom make your vocabulary lists too okay I don't see any questions yet so I will continue on let's see we've got about nine minutes yeah everybody's just saying hello and they understood Oh some people I'm on on Facebook said how do we get the free PDFs so these ones I mentioned if you want to get these if you're watching on Facebook there's a link above the video not the chat box but like above the chat area or above the video on Facebook below the video in the description box if you're watching on YouTube please log in to the website with your account if you do not have an account you can make a free account okay / son says how do I learn words with the same translation for example target goal purpose objective yeah so one recognizing that the words are different great and then if you think these words seem to be the same check a dictionary to look at the differences and I recommend checking example sentences too because sometimes when I check a dictionary I understand like you say the translation of the word but I don't understand the nuance I don't understand like the small differences in meaning until I check example sentences so I say dictionary yes but also check the example sentences to understand it and sometimes quite honestly lots of people use the same words interchangeably okay good let's continue then to the last part of today's lesson I guess I'll take one more break and show you a couple more of these the new ones I haven't shown you yet so this one this is what I was looking for earlier this lent it's about hobbies so this says leisure time activities which means hobbies so the things you do in your time off so if you want to study hobby related vocabulary this is a good resource on the back lots and lots of vocabulary words that you can practice to be able to talk about your hobbies for more specific hobbies like for example about music this says singing but this is actually about music there's a lot of music related vocabulary on the back here so please check these out there are lots and lots of new ones I think I have a couple more maybe if there's time later but please check the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on Facebook to check out all of the new PDFs that you can use your vocabulary studies okay let's go to the last part of today's lesson men please today's lesson the last part will be about when to study when to study so if you missed it I talked about the spaced repetition this idea of having a gap between your study sessions as you practice as you review vocabulary words so when should you study first every day is the best setting every day is the best finding a little bit of time to study vocabulary every day is the best so I know like lots of people are busy but if you just kind of change a little bit of your existing schedule it can be kind of easy to find 10 minutes or 15 minutes here and there some ideas during your commute so your commute means your travel to work or your travel to school so if you drive a car it might be a little challenging but I've heard of some people who listen who do listening practice in their car on the way to work so they do like a listening vocabulary listening sorts of things this could be an option if you drive other things during your lunch break you can study take 10 minutes in your lunch break to review vocabulary maybe after dinner or before you go to bed or before you eat breakfast or maybe after school if you're a student so there are lots of different times during the day of course everybody has a different schedule everybody has you know a different kind of feel as well like I hate mornings for example I am NOT a morning person it takes me a super long time to wake up I like to sleep late so for me I don't want to do anything before breakfast for me it's like late afternoon is the best time for me so that's when I prefer to study in my case actually though like my favorite time to study vocabulary when I studied vocabulary my favorite thing to do and the thing that was most helpful for me I was using an app and I studied on my commute in the morning and at night my commute was very short like 15 minutes or so so I studied 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at night and that was 30 minutes a day that's a true story I did that for like a year or so and I learned a lot of vocabulary that was really helpful I was using a spaced repetition system too so I remembered it as well so that's what was helpful for me that was very helpful for me you can find something that works for you specifically so but key points try to study every day try to study every day of course if you miss a day that's okay that's fine but try to make a little bit of time every day because you refresh your mind like if you're refreshing your mind every day a little bit it's really really good to do so try to study every day okay any more questions um Alisha today youtube okay someone up bori on facebook says i always study english after school nice nice so you already have a specific time maybe some of you already have an English class so maybe you can study just before your class to review your vocabulary good marcello on youtube says on my commute works better for me yeah that was my case too we're like studying on my commute was really really good for me I liked that a lot because otherwise I'm just gonna like check social media or something like I can check that anytime so I just changed how I used my time and studied instead okay other points someone says if I miss a day I'll get lazy I understand I totally understand but it's like if you stop if you quit you'll regret not continuing so it's like if you miss a day just go oh and then start again so don't get down on that penny says do these tips apply to remembering grammar rules totally I think so totally so it's not quite the same like studying vocabulary words like we can't always just pick up a flashcard and remember all like the grammar rules of something but you can use the same idea so for example if you study like present perfect tense at the beginning of your I don't know here and then you study it like you know you review it the next day what is it how do I use it what's it used for and then you study it the next week and then two weeks later you can do that and then I think with grammar you naturally use it so you might not use all of your vocabulary words a lot but with grammar rules you're naturally using them so if you refresh yourself a few times in the beginning I think it becomes much easier long term to remember so don't just study a grammar point one time okay it's really hard to remember words for things relating to medicine and disease yeah I would say again just put him in a flashcards just put him in a flash card deck find some word list get your get your words together and put them together in a flashcard group that you can study with the same system we've talked about how's my Japanese vocabulary pretty good I do pretty good I don't know how many I don't know I don't know how many words I know actually I'm not sure other questions let's see Facebook Facebook Facebook I don't see specific questions about vocabulary or let's see someone says what can I do to improve my listening well if you're talking about vocabulary listening then try you can use this and you can try to listen as well to like our videos or to like audio podcasts at the same level as what you're studying so that might help you okay good I don't see many questions so I think I have to wrap it up as well so it is half past the hour so we'll conclude there I think well look at me I'm on time for a change alright so I'll end there but I hope that this lesson gave you some useful tips for studying vocabulary again the system I talked about the method I talked about here was spaced repetition spaced repetition you might find spaced repetition systems or spaced repetition software's called SRS SRS so please check that out or make your own flashcards and your own study schedule I wish you the best of luck with your vocabulary studies but I have to finish so today's lesson will end here we will be back of course next week next week's topic is yes every day English idioms everyday English idiom so I'm gonna talk about maybe twelve to twenty or so I've chosen a few like hit the hay or knock it out of the park I'm gonna talk about some everyday English idioms that we use for those little bits of like daily life so please join us next week that will be Wednesday August 21st 2019 um we'll be here 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is in New York City time if you don't know your local time please google it and join us to talk about everyday English idiom so this will be kind of like a vocabulary lesson but like phrases we'll talk about some set phrases to use so join us again next week we'll be here I will sign up so please check out the new PDFs I showed earlier these are all for free from the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on Facebook if you're watching on Instagram please check the links on youtube or on Facebook and we'll see you again next week so thanks very much for liking the video and for sharing the video for sending your questions that was awesome and enjoy your week enjoy your weekend we will see you next time

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Length: 31min 39sec (1899 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 14 2019