Learn English without a Teacher - Learn Alone

hi hi Internet hello everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about how to study English alone so how to study English with no teacher without a teacher I know many of you are studying maybe in a small town or in a place where it's difficult to connect with a teacher so today I want to introduce some ideas and give you some strategies to study by yourself to study by yourself so today there has been some trouble on Facebook and Instagram on the Facebook and Instagram sides so we are focusing on YouTube and the YouTube chat today so as you join please send us a message in the chat please make sure to like and share the video as well we really appreciate it and we're going to begin in about a minute or two minutes as always do we have free stuff I will show you these free PDFs later in the lesson these are great resources for people who are studying alone for quick-like topic based vocabulary and phrase lists so please have a look at this when you have a chance okay I see many people in the chat Andres Lizzy Henry Henry Javed banya ANCA Carlos chan Mohit Andre again Lara Lara Croft Oh Lara Croft from Indonesia exciting hi everybody thank you for joining us great great I mentioned or I didn't mention I want to share one item quickly I tweeted about this just less than an hour ago there's a new video on the YouTube channel if you have not seen it I talked about the use of just do we have that photo I talked about the use of just for very recently completed actions this just came out on the YouTube channel so a lot of you asked about how to use the just recently a video about using just about to was released this is just for past actions so please take a look at this video on the English class 101 YouTube channel for more information about how to use just okay great alright there are lots of people in the chat now fantastic hi everybody thank you very much for coming today we're going to talk about how to study English alone how to study English alone okay so let's begin today's lesson is in three parts the red color is a little difficult to see sorry I'll try to fix that yeah I mentioned it so we're going to start here and I'm going to show you kind of the flow for this so let's begin with this part over here so I think the first step the first place I want to start for today with how to study alone is this part right here so it's hard to see I know this is assess assess the spelling here is a ssgss assess to assess means to check to check something in this case assess yourself so check yourself means check your level so a lot of you in the comments will writes like how do I know my level or I don't know where to start so first step for this lesson is to check yourself to check your level so how do you do that we need to answer a few questions so when you check your level you need to know what can I do what can I do what is easy for me and what is difficult for me so these three questions are things we want to check we want to understand about ourselves how do we do this so we can do this by asking some can questions so the questions begin with can-can for example can I give my name so this is a question about your English skills so in English can I give my name or in English can I give my phone number so these are maybe basic questions can I give my name can I give my phone number more challenging questions then can I talk about my work can I talk about my work another more challenging one can I give a presentation can I give a presentation so these are just four simple questions you can ask yourself there are many can style questions like can I order a pizza on the phone or can I make a reservation for a hotel there are many very small questions you can ask yourself about your English level so your answers to these questions are important for example this question can I give my name so by this I mean I can say my name is Alicia that's very comfortable for me so in your case are you comfortable saying my name is so and so your answer is important so I think it's a good idea to have three different possible answers so can I give my name yes easily yes easily so it's easy to give my name in my case yes it's very easy to give my name my name is Alicia maybe though for some people yes but it's difficult yes but it's difficult so maybe I can give my name or I can give my phone number but it's difficult for me the third possible answer is no I can't it's not possible now I can't I cannot do that for example can I give a presentation in English can I give a presentation in English no I can't so with these three levels of questions we can check our English level our language our language level so if these questions like can I give my name if you can say yes it's easy no problem then these these types of things maybe you don't need to study or you don't need to focus on these right now however here can I talk about my work or can I talk about my hobbies maybe you said mmm yes I can but it's difficult so I want the focus to be on these these questions the questions that you say yes but it's difficult so I can do it a little bit but it's challenging for me if you say can I give a presentation and the answer is no I can't then maybe let's not focus on this point right now let's focus your level your studies on these difficult points right here so focus on this for today's lesson let's imagine you want to talk about your work or maybe talk about your hobbies so you ask yourself like can I do this thing yes I can but it's difficult the next thing to ask is why why so why is this difficult for me for example can I talk about my work yes but it's difficult okay next why so why are some things difficult in this case why is it difficult for me to talk about my work so in my case my work is teacher my job is teacher so why is difficult for me in your case depending on your job why is it difficult for you to talk about your job for example not enough vocabulary not enough vocabulary so I don't know the words I don't know the correct words this is one possible reason or I don't know the grammar I don't know how to explain the grammar like how do I say it my vocabulary is okay my grammar is not so good or maybe my pronunciation is not clear so I can't speak clearly and communicate many people have a question about confidence I check your comments and lots of people say I don't have the confidence to speak I don't have the confidence to do this confidence comes with practice this is an important point for practice so if confidence is your problem from all of these the solution is to practice so this one practice lots for this so these however if your problem is vocabulary or I don't know grammar or pronunciation is not great or for example on my writing skills my writing is not good these possible reasons why it's difficult will help you make your study plan okay someone asked one asked mate can I answer maybe but I'm not sure well these questions are designed they are yes-or-no questions so if you say maybe but I'm not sure you're probably saying yes but it's difficult so try to say it or try to write it can you do it or not so you should be able to say yes no or it's a little difficult for these okay Fernando what does assess means assess means check check yourself to assess yourself is to check yourself okay good so this is the first part of today's point so the first part for studying alone is to find your level the goal of this is to find your level and find what can I do what is easy for me what is difficult for me so I recommend like make a list of these can questions what can you do what can't you do make a list of these and right yes I can yes but difficult and no answers for these okay so point 1 point 1 let's take one quick break and then we'll continue to the next step for studying alone so I know many of you are studying alone and some of you say vocabulary is a hard thing for you but capillary is tough so if your vocabulary is weak or you want to improve your vocabulary you can find from this link right here you can see these free pdf lessons you can find these from the link below the video if you're watching on YouTube and if you're watching later on Facebook you can find them from the link above the video so depending on your goal depending on your can statement you can choose one of these pdf lessons for example this is a business English PDF it has phrases for a meeting on it I'll show on this camera that's it ok alright to show a little more clearly if you want to practice work-related phrases this is the business English PDF there are phrases for a meeting on the back if you are interested in talking about your family we have family vocabulary sheet with some phrases and vocabulary words for talking about your family holidays and so on if you are a student if you are a student on this back-to-school PDF sheet you can find some expressions for the classroom the classroom so to speak to your classmates or to speak to your teachers so you can find all of these from the link below the video on youtube or if you're watching later perhaps on Facebook you can watch early check the link above the video on Facebook so you can get these from the link if you have an account in English class 101.com you can download all of these all of these for free now they are free if you do not have an account you can make an account for free with your email address and your name so please check these out these are great for vocabulary practice and some grammar practice too there are lots of expressions on the back page ok let's continue on then for those of you just joining today's lesson is about how to study English alone how to study English alone no teacher so part 1 of today's lesson was about assessing yourself how to assess yourself how to check your level let's go now to part 2 here part 2 is make a plan make a plan how do you make a plan so in part 1 we assess ourselves we found something that was difficult for us so not impossible like we can do it a little bit but it's difficult so we learned that we need to find why that's difficult I don't have vocabulary I don't know the grammar my pronunciation is not good for example so with this we need to take this information and make a plan make a plan with this so for example for today's lesson let's imagine look cab you Larry is the problem so I want to talk about my work but I don't have enough vocabulary so what should I do so when you make your study plan keep this point vocabulary and your topic in mind because this becomes your goal your goal so for this part for making a plan think about how to finish these sentences how do you finish this sentence with what's difficult for you for example for today's lesson my goal is to talk about my work or my goal is to talk about my hobby in English so here let's imagine my goal is to talk about my work I'm a programmer or I'm a student maybe to talk about my studies is also okay then your second sentence to finish is my deadline is my deadline is so this means when am I going to finish my goal so next week the end of 2019 when am I going to finish my goal my deadline is April April 15th whatever choose a deadline maybe your deadline is a test so there's a TOEIC test or a TOEFL test or some other test you're preparing for like my goal is to do this my deadline is the test date that's okay too so choose your goal my goal is to talk about my work my deadline is June 1st for example next thing in your plan the next thing to think about is your study schedule your study schedule so this means how often are you going to study I'm going to study every day for 15 minutes I'm going to study three times a week for 30 minutes so choose your study schedule I would suggest at least twice a week at least two times isn't great three times is better five times is really really nice ideally the best the best case is a little bit every day a little bit every day so my study schedule is three times a week for 30 minutes each time or my study schedule is every day for 10 minutes whatever that is for you finish this sentence or make a study schedule for yourself okay someone asked what do you do if you have questions when you study alone we'll get to that down here the fourth question or rather the fourth sentence to answer is my study resources are my study resources so resources for example a study resource is like our videos on English class 101 or like the dialogues the texts the transcripts on our website it could be your textbook it could be an app you use your study resources so your vocabulary lists your favorite flashcard tool these are all study resources so decide your study resources so to talk about my work my study resources are videos on English class 101 and my flashcard application so these are my study resources for this goal finally as some of you said what about this one if I have questions if I have questions Oh what so what are you going to do if you have a question this is an important thing to do or an important thing to answer if you have a question and you don't know who you should talk to you can get stuck so if you are a member on our website you can leave comments on our videos on the website and a teacher from our company will reply and give you feedback if you have one of the premium level subscriptions you can practice one-on-one together with a teacher they'll you can send homework you can send audio files and they will give you feedback if you're not a member of the website that's fine too you can find for example English speaking message boards there are English speaking apps where you can connect with native speakers for language exchange so find a way to get your questions answered if that's still difficult for you think about how to use Google to help you with this so like if you have a grammar question how do you use Google search to get your question answered so think about how to answer this question okay good so this these answers are rather the ways that you finish these sentences will help you make your plan they'll help you make your plan so for example if my goal our goal for today is to talk about work I want to talk about my work in English so my goal is to talk about my work in English I'm going to study vocabulary so I want to study vocabulary my deadline is yeah June first let's say I have a few months my study schedule is three times a week 30 minutes each time my study resources are English class videos on YouTube and I'm going to use a flash card application to study my vocabulary and I'm going to practice sending comments on an English language message board asking for feedback so something like that so this is how we can make a specific plan for a specific goal so notice in this so far I'm not saying like my goal is to become fluent that's not a good goal we're making a very specific study plan for a very specific goal for a very specific weakness so keep this in mind okay so we'll take one more break and then we'll finish with the last part and hopefully give you a tool so that you can continue this process okay so we'll finish there for now we'll take a break if you missed it earlier I showed a few of these free PDFs there's this banner here that you can see these are available from the link below the video on YouTube or maybe it fizzes up later on Facebook you can check the link above the video there so I showed you some family some business related and some school related things in the last break in this break however I want to show maybe some more hobby related things so if your goal is to talk about your hobby I'll go over here for example if you enjoy shopping this is close but you can use this for other shopping too so shopping for other items there are phrases on the back here and some shopping related vocabulary as well as color review - if you enjoy travelling here is a PDF cheat sheet for hotel so Hotel vocabulary here and on the back phrases to use at a hotel I think this part is very useful it's hard to see sometimes or sorry sentences you'll use in a hotel so this is good for those of you who like to travel if you are like me and you like food this one it says dining like a champ but this is how to eat at restaurants so here at the beginning here this is expressions for talking to the staff at restaurant so if you like food and you want to practice food vocabulary please check out this PDF okay so there are a lot of different different topics for these if you want to check everything please check the link below the video on YouTube above the video on Facebook okay so we're going to go to the last part of today's lesson the last part is this part a fairly short part which is simply to study to study so if you missed it today's topic is how to study English alone how to study English alone without a teacher so some of you are sending your comments in the chat also a quick reminder don't forget to like and share the video as well someone said do I need a subscription plan to get the PDF lessons no you can make a free account you can make a free account yes there are subscription plans on the website but you can get these the PDFs I showed with a free account a free account okay so let's go to the last point here so we assessed ourselves we checked our level we found our goal we found the reason the thing is difficult for us and we made a plan so the next thing to do is to study so put your plan into action put your plan into action study until you reach your goal so again using those resources we talked about vocabulary lists so vocab is the short word for vocabulary your grammar videos like I showed you a vocab showed you a grammar video at the beginning of this lesson the video about just so that's a grammar video that you can use presentation skills you can look for videos and resources about presentation skills you can look for videos about writing skills improving your writing skills textbooks as well there are many different resources to improve different skills so study with your plan until you reach your goals your goal or your goals depending on your situation so by this I mean don't just study one time or study for one week and then quit you have to use your plan and continue studying until you can do this thing so this is an important part this is like the completing point for the for the circle here oh hi there Deebo Kim thank you very much thank you thank you we appreciate it in the super chat so the last part and the very important point here is after you've studied so you've been studying studying studying to do this thing then when you feel comfortable when you think okay maybe I'm ready maybe I can do this thing now this says ask the can question again ask the can question again so at the beginning of the lesson today I talked about this can I pattern so can I give mine in yes can I give my phone number can I talk about my work so maybe at the beginning when you started it was difficult for you but after studying ask the question again can I talk about my work and if you studied correctly hopefully you can say yes easily I can talk about my work keep in mind as I said to confidence confidence comes with practice so try to think about vocabulary and grammar and so on to improve that if you're just like not sure if you're nervous about it just keep practicing there then think about okay do I know the vocabulary do I know the grammar can I do this and when the answer becomes yes easily then move on to your next goal so like can I give a presentation or can I talk about my hobby mmm yes but it's difficult okay why what's difficult and so on so we repeat this flow this kind of circle this cycle too slowly or maybe quickly move forward but it's really important to choose a specific thing to focus on specific things to study make the plan put it into action and then always check yourself again later so this is how you can study English alone studying English without a teacher one-on-one or maybe if you have an online teacher this is how you can kind of take charge of your studies so I hope that this tool is helpful for you in making your plans and finding your own level so another recommendation I have I mentioned at the beginning of the lesson this is my last point for today maybe when you start make a list of a lot of cann questions like that are important for you this is for maybe you can choose like 20 or 25 cani questions and then like keep track maybe on your computer like in Excel maybe Microsoft Excel or something similar you can record your answers so like this month yes this is easy easy easy no it's difficult and I can't do it and then every time you study and check yourself record new answers then you can track your own progress and see okay last month this was difficult for me now I can do it or maybe next year you can see easily oh I learned this and this and this so it can help you to track your progress to keep a list and a record of your answers to these questions so that's another tip that you can use to understand your progress okay I have to finish now though so I hope that this was a helpful lesson for you for all of you who are studying alone I will end the SDS in the lesson there for today our next lesson our next live lesson rather will be in two weeks actually so next week there is a special holiday on a regular live day so our team will enjoy a break but please join us again for our next live stream it will be Wednesday March 27th that's a 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time now we have daylight savings time to think about the topic will be how to talk about household tasks how to talk about household tasks so the everyday things you do inside your house house cleaning or doing the laundry those kinds of small everyday actions how do you talk about those this will be our topic for the next live stream so please join us March 27th Wednesday March 27th you can set a notification on youtube or on Facebook to join us live so please don't miss that if you have any questions please send them in the chat I will try to answer them where possible finally don't forget if you have not already checked to check out the PDF lessons I showed you throughout today's lesson so I showed a lunch but you can get them all for free from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook okay with that we'll finish today's lesson thank you so much for joining thank you very much for liking and sharing the video and for sending your comments we really appreciate it so enjoy the rest of your week enjoy the rest of your night or day enjoy your weekend and we will see you again in two weeks bye bye

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Length: 32min 5sec (1925 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 13 2019