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Hi! Guys! Let’s talk about memorizing vocabularies today.
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Hi! Guys! Let’s talk about memorizing vocabularies today.
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There are numerous ways to memorize vocabularies. But I’m
going to give you the way I do it.
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And also I will recommend a few ways that you can do it, to
memorize vocabulary.
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Okay, let's go!
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Let’s talk first about what doesn’t work.
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The first thing is, don’t get a list of vocabularies from
other people.
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If you go to, like, Anki, or Quizlet or other flashcard
website,
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you will see that there are already, like a pre-made vocab
cards.
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And I don’t recommend you... using them because if you make
it on your own,
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I think there are more chances that you will be able to
memorize it.
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It can be flashcards or actually a list depending on how you
choose to memorize it but don’t use other people’s stuff.
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For me, since I’m a language learner and love learning
languages.
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I always choose to learn words that are related to language
learning.
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And since I’m a teacher too, I choose words that are related
to language teaching to learn in the beginning.
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And after I mastered that I go on to another word. There are
lists of topics that I’m interested in.
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And, if you are interested in knowing how I learn languages
from scratch, you can go and take a look at my other video.
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There was one time that I looked through my student’s...
words that he’s memorizing. And he’s a beginner.
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And there’s the word wine in it. He was learning Thai.
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And actually, Thai people, we almost never, we never drink
wine. Because it’s not a Thai thing, you know.
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But “why is that in the first 100 word list?”, I asked him.
And he said because he got the list from somewhere else.
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Unless you drink a lot of wine every day then you should be
memorizing other words
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that there’s more opportunity for you to talk and to use.
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Second thing that you shouldn’t do is you shouldn’t memorize
every word that you encounter
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Second thing that you shouldn’t do is you shouldn’t memorize
every word that you encounter
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Because while learning languages you are going to encounter
so much words
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and you will not know which one to memorize and if you
memorize everything
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then you are in big trouble because it’s too much.
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So what I always do is when I see the word the first time I
don’t try to memorize it.
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The second time not yet.
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But the third time that I see it or that I hear it,
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I start paying attention because, oh wow, after hearing it
the third time I can not memorize it yet.
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That means actually this is some word important because it’s
already 3 times hearing this word.
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So I start paying attention to the word and trying to
memorize it.
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Maybe I will write them down or put in flashcards or write it
on my hand or put it in my phone.
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Number 3, what you shouldn’t do is that you shouldn’t learn
the word out of its context.
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Word in context means word that has a sentence. Words that
fit in a sentence.
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So memorizing words out of the context means taking that word
out and just memorizing it purely, just like a word.
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For example, the word “to want” you don’t want to memorize
just the word to want.
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You want to memorize the word, I want to go to school. I want
to eat ice-cream.
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It should be in a sentence.
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Imagine a Thai person memorizing the word want. To want as
“yak”.
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Imagine a Thai person memorizing the word want. To want as
“yak” ("Want" in Thai).
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And then, they will be making a sentence like this “I want
eat”. Because in Thai there’s no article.
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And another example is the word “abide”.
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“Abide” in English is an old word which means to live or to
stay.
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But, if, let’s say you see the word abide and you want to
memorize it as “live”.
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Then you would say “I abide in a hotel for 3 days”.
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Then that would sound weird. Because it’s not used.
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So you can not use the word abide as much as you use the word
“live”.
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So that is why “abide” needs to come with context
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and you need to understand the word in its context that it’s
old that it’s used in…
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for example, the Lord abides in me. Something like that, from
the bible, you know. This is why it’s important.
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Okay, now we have the words and we know that we have to put
it in context.
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So, what do we do after that? You can use flashcards like
Quizlet, Anki.
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in google sheet, you can put it in google document.
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You can put it in post it. You can write them in a notebook
with colored pencils.
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You can put it in post it. You can write them in a notebook
with colored pencils.
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There are many ways that people do.
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But for me, myself, and personally I think that this works
best and this is the most efficient way to learn words.
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What I do is that I take blogs or whatever is written on the
internet
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and I read them over and over and over again.
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And I read stuff that are in the same theme, the same topic
so that the words inside
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keeps repeating and repeating itself again and again.
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And this is how I learn words. And if the word appears one
time and doesn’t repeat again
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and I happen to memorize it, I happen to remember it, then
that’s really nice.
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But I don’t really care about them so much if they only
appear one time after reading 20 articles.
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If they appear one time then it’s something not important.
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But if they appear in every article, that means it’s
something that I have to know
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and I will care about it and I will give more attention to
this word.
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So personally, I don’t really use flashcards to memorize
vocabulary.
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When I read I like to read online. I don’t really read books,
like paper book.
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The reason is because it’s easier to find vocabulary.
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There are some tools that I use and that I want to share with
you.
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The first tool that I like to use is Readlang.
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So what I do is that I will go into topics that I want to
know.
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In this case, I’m going to write how to learn English at
home.
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And I will just go to the first, second, or third topic.
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Can be this one, this one, or this one. I will choose the
first one that appears.
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So I will choose the correct language.
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Now let’s say I want to learn Spanish and I want it to
translate to English.
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I would go here. What is “maneras”, Okay then I would learn
that this is “Ways”. Demasiado, costosa.
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And with this, I will be able to read through the text
without having to go back and forth to the dictionary.
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You can try to understand the text straight away and not only
learning the vocabs but learning the content itself.
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I think that is the point of Readlang.
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And there is this other site that is made by Steve Kaufmann
who is another polyglot and its main focus is reading.
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So it works kind of like Readlang. But in LingQ itself there
are texts that are already prepared for beginners.
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So I really recommend beginners to check it out. I think it’s
really really interesting.
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Another site, actually not a site. It’s a chrome extension
that I like to use is called Language Reactor.
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So with Language Reactor, you can read through the transcript
of Netflix or Youtube with subtitles
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and through this, you can just click stuff that..words that
you don’t know
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and it has its translation and the words can be saved and can
be revised later.
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I think it works really well for those that want to study
words with context and from the movie that you like.
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All right guys, thank you so much for watching this video.
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And if any of you want to see another video about the tools
that I use for different languages,
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please write in the comments and let me know. See you.