If you've ever moved to a new home or
moved to a new office due to a job change or relocated to an entirely new country, you know how exciting it all can
be, but it's also rather disruptive. Then doing all of that in
another language is really tough. Recently inside my
Confident Women Community. I've been sharing about my own
cross-country moving experience. And today I want to share some
key vocabulary with you, English, phrasal verbs, collocations, idioms, and more all related to
moving or relocating. My goal is to help you have all the
vocabulary you need to communicate about your experiences or
your upcoming plans with friends, family, coworkers, and more. Now, before we start, if
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related to moving and relocating I've focused in on four strategies
that help make the moving process easier. So if you have an upcoming
move in your life, you can follow these strategies to make
it less stressful. And along the way, we're going to learn more
than 15 essential English, collocations, phrasal
verbs, idioms, and more. So you have successful conversations. So strategy number one for the
moving and relocation process, make room for all the emotions. Let's say that you or a loved
one just accepted a new job. And that means that you'll be moving
to a new city or maybe even to a new country. The moment that happens, do you know what's coming
an emotional roller coaster describing a relocation as an
emotional roller coaster means that you are going to have
a variety of emotions. Everything from excitement,
exhilaration to nervousness, anxiety, disappointment,
frustration, worry, and so much more all in a
very short period of time going from feeling
exhilarated to desperate and back again is quite an
emotional experience. One of the best things you can do
early on in the relocation process is prepare yourself for the
emotional fallout of moving emotional fallout, refers
to the anxiety, stress, or even trauma you might experience
after a major event or crisis. Sometimes we experience an emotional
fallout. Even when there isn't a crisis, it can occur when we're struggling to
come to terms with a rational decision, like accepting a new job
and preparing to move. When an emotional fallout occurs, it's important to give yourself
time and space to process. In other words, tune into your
needs. At that time in the sentence, I just used giving yourself
time to process in this context to process means
to give yourself time, to evaluate information, to accept it or absorb it.
And while you're doing that, while you're processing
all those emotions, you might ask yourself
a few key questions. Do you need to keep busy to
keep your mind off of things? Or do you just need to slow
down and take a breath? Do you need to talk about it with someone
and get all of those emotions off your chest? Or do you just
need some time alone? Maybe you need to do some research
to help you organize and plan during the process of
processing your emotions. These are helpful questions to consider
the second strategy when moving or relocating is stay
organized. Most importantly, avoid flooding. Flooding is a feeling of
emotional or mental overwhelm. The best way to avoid flooding
is prioritizing downtime to avoid burnout. Additionally, prioritize the most important
items on your moving checklist and take into account. The time you'll need to
pack and prepare to take something into account means to
consider something or to consider it fully while judging or
evaluating the situation. The last part of staying organized
is to help others prepare for the impact of your move. This includes communicating
important dates and telling others what you need from them to help. When you're communicating on these
key points with friends, family, and coworkers, here are several essential, phrasal verbs to know
number one, to move out, to move out means to, to leave
one's home, to live somewhere else. For example, we need to move
out of our apartment by Friday. So I need to spend all my free
time packing phrasal verb, two to move away. This means to leave one
place for a new place. For example, my husband and
I aren't moving out of state, but we are moving away from
the city. Number three, to move into this means to move
your possessions into a new location, to make it
your home. For example, I'll be moving into my new
apartment on Wednesday. So I'll be offline and unavailable
for two days. Next week. The fourth key phrasal
verb to know is to pack up. This means to put things into
boxes or bags in order to take them with you somewhere. For example, there's quite a bit to
pack up here in my office. So I'll need to spend
all afternoon doing that. Number five is to load up. And this means to fill something
with several items until it's full. For example, after you've
packed up your office, you might load up all of
the boxes into your car. Another example, the movers won't be able to deliver
our items for another two weeks. Would you mind helping me load up
our car with all our essentials? And the last key phrase LA verb to
know for right now is to settle on this means to decide on something
or to make a decision. For example, let's settle on the 18th as the last
day for any meetings this month. Let me pause here for just a moment
before we go onto strategy. Number three, for how to handle moving
and relocating. Well, we've just learned six
essential, phrasal verbs, and you might be wondering how
do I remember all of these? These are really useful, phrasal verbs.
I have two recommendations for you. Number one, review my lesson on how to
effectively learn and remember vocabulary. I'll share a link to
that lesson in my notes below. And number two, practice these FRA LA verbs in speaking, if you're not sure how to do that, I want you to go to my
website and download my free, How to Say What You Want in
English training. In that training, I share my number one strategy
for getting speaking practice. Even if you're self
learning or learning alone, this is the same strategy I
use with my students to make effective progress in their
English, confidence and fluency. Again, you can get that
training at my website. It's a perfect way to get speaking
practice and incorporate some of this key vocabulary. And
now strategy number three, when moving and relocating ask for help. I know it isn't always easy, but sometimes you need an extra
set of hands to get things done. So don't be afraid to ask friends and
family to help with packing up and organizing the same can be
said for emotional and mental support. When you move to a new place, you might experience some
culture shock or in some cases, reverse culture, shock culture shock refers to
those feelings of confusion and uncertainty that we experience when we
move to a new place or a new country. For example, if moving from
one country to another, you might experience culture shock. When eating out at restaurants
in north America, for example, it's customary to give a
tip of 15 to 20% or even more to the servers. However, in another country's giving
a tip may be considered rude. If you're from a culture where
you always tip at a restaurant and then you move to a new country where
you have a negative interaction, because you thought you were
doing something correctly, you may experience some culture shock,
reverse culture shock. On the other hand, are those feelings of
uncertainty and anxiety. When moving back to your home country, there's often some readjustment that
needs to take place and it isn't always easy. So if you've just returned home or maybe
you're even visiting your home country for a few days, weeks, or months, while
you're there, you might tell someone, I think I'm having a bit of
reverse culture shock. I'm
not used to all of this. I've been away for so long. I'm curious whether you've ever
moved to another city or country and at some point in time experienced
culture shock or reverse culture shock. If so, tell me about it. You can share with me
in the comments below, I'd love to know more about
your experience and how
you dealt with that culture shock or reverse culture shock. Now, when you experience these feelings
of anxiety or uncertainty, it's important to tap
into your support network, to tap into something means to
access a resource or an object that can be an advantage to you. And this brings me to strategy
number four for successful relocation and moving put down roots, moving to a new place can
be daunting and to help overcome those initial feelings
of uncertainty and anxiety. It's important to put down your
roots to put down roots means to settle into your new life and
feel that you belong. Now, if you're an introvert like me,
this can be a real challenge. It's hard to resist. The urge to hunker down to
hunker down means to stay in one place like inside your
home for a long period of time, in order to protect yourself.
However, to start feeling comfortable, to begin putting down your roots, it's
important to explore your new location. This might include going to local
events, starting new traditions, building new routines, meeting new people and so much
more in the area where you live. One thing I always do
is take excessively long walks wherever I move to. I like to allow myself to get
lost so I can just explore what's around me and figure
out where everything is. Another way that I love to do that
is to get on a bus at one place and go until it stops at the very end, just to see where it goes through
the city and how the streets connect and to find out what's there. It's a great way for me as an introvert, to find my footing and begin
exploring where I live. If you do something like this, then you're likely to find new places
that you want to go back and visit. And there may even be opportunities
to meet new people. For example, you might discover an art gallery that
you'd really like to visit or a new park that you'd like to take your kids
to. While you do all of this, it's important to remember that
you're going through a transition and patience is key. There are
going to be highs and lows, good and bad days along the
way. All of that's okay. It's a natural part of a transition
to help smooth that transition. You can focus on positive,
familiar attachments, finding the places that you want
to go back to again and again, and begin to settle into a new routine. To settle into something means to
begin feeling comfortable in that new place, that new city,
new home, or new job. Some things that you can do
to help you settle in is to do activities you did in your
previous home, in your new place, or while you unpack, fill your
new space with familiar items. For example, perhaps there are a few items that you
really loved having in your original office. Well, when you make
the transition to a new one, put those same items in your new office, that'll help give that
feeling of familiarity. As you begin to settle into
that new place with that, you have four essential strategies
to help you have a successful moving process or relocation process. Now that we've gone through all of that,
I want you to practice the English, phrasal verbs, idioms, and collocations that you
learned today to do that. I have two questions for you. First. I want you to choose three or
four new vocabulary words from today's lesson and use them to
describe your own experience. Moving again. It can be moving
from one office to another. It can be moving from
one country to another, but I want you to describe what happened. Describe your experience using
three to four new vocabulary words. The second question I have for
you is if you've moved before, what tips do you have
for first time movers? What would you recommend? What would help make the
process easier for someone else? You can share your answers with
me in the comment section below. And if you found today's lesson
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