1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,233 Hi! Guys! Let’s talk about memorizing vocabularies today. 2 00:00:01,233 --> 00:00:04,566 Hi! Guys! Let’s talk about memorizing vocabularies today. 3 00:00:04,566 --> 00:00:12,699 There are numerous ways to memorize vocabularies. But I’m going to give you the way I do it. 4 00:00:12,699 --> 00:00:18,000 And also I will recommend a few ways that you can do it, to memorize vocabulary. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:18,933 Okay, let's go! 6 00:00:20,266 --> 00:00:22,399 Let’s talk first about what doesn’t work. 7 00:00:22,399 --> 00:00:29,033 The first thing is, don’t get a list of vocabularies from other people. 8 00:00:29,033 --> 00:00:35,066 If you go to, like, Anki, or Quizlet or other flashcard website, 9 00:00:35,066 --> 00:00:40,166 you will see that there are already, like a pre-made vocab cards. 10 00:00:40,166 --> 00:00:45,100 And I don’t recommend you... using them because if you make it on your own, 11 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:49,133 I think there are more chances that you will be able to memorize it. 12 00:00:49,133 --> 00:00:56,266 It can be flashcards or actually a list depending on how you choose to memorize it but don’t use other people’s stuff. 13 00:00:56,266 --> 00:00:59,799 For me, since I’m a language learner and love learning languages. 14 00:00:59,799 --> 00:01:05,166 I always choose to learn words that are related to language learning. 15 00:01:05,166 --> 00:01:12,766 And since I’m a teacher too, I choose words that are related to language teaching to learn in the beginning. 16 00:01:12,766 --> 00:01:20,066 And after I mastered that I go on to another word. There are lists of topics that I’m interested in. 17 00:01:20,066 --> 00:01:28,033 And, if you are interested in knowing how I learn languages from scratch, you can go and take a look at my other video. 18 00:01:28,033 --> 00:01:35,966 There was one time that I looked through my student’s... words that he’s memorizing. And he’s a beginner. 19 00:01:35,966 --> 00:01:40,533 And there’s the word wine in it. He was learning Thai. 20 00:01:40,533 --> 00:01:47,033 And actually, Thai people, we almost never, we never drink wine. Because it’s not a Thai thing, you know. 21 00:01:47,033 --> 00:01:52,200 But “why is that in the first 100 word list?”, I asked him. And he said because he got the list from somewhere else. 22 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:58,533 Unless you drink a lot of wine every day then you should be memorizing other words 23 00:01:58,533 --> 00:02:04,733 that there’s more opportunity for you to talk and to use. 24 00:02:05,299 --> 00:02:07,400 Second thing that you shouldn’t do is you shouldn’t memorize every word that you encounter 25 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,433 Second thing that you shouldn’t do is you shouldn’t memorize every word that you encounter 26 00:02:11,433 --> 00:02:15,199 Because while learning languages you are going to encounter so much words 27 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:19,733 and you will not know which one to memorize and if you memorize everything 28 00:02:19,733 --> 00:02:23,266 then you are in big trouble because it’s too much. 29 00:02:23,266 --> 00:02:30,433 So what I always do is when I see the word the first time I don’t try to memorize it. 30 00:02:30,433 --> 00:02:32,033 The second time not yet. 31 00:02:32,033 --> 00:02:36,300 But the third time that I see it or that I hear it, 32 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:42,300 I start paying attention because, oh wow, after hearing it the third time I can not memorize it yet. 33 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:47,566 That means actually this is some word important because it’s already 3 times hearing this word. 34 00:02:47,566 --> 00:02:51,599 So I start paying attention to the word and trying to memorize it. 35 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:57,599 Maybe I will write them down or put in flashcards or write it on my hand or put it in my phone. 36 00:02:57,966 --> 00:03:05,066 Number 3, what you shouldn’t do is that you shouldn’t learn the word out of its context. 37 00:03:05,066 --> 00:03:10,566 Word in context means word that has a sentence. Words that fit in a sentence. 38 00:03:10,566 --> 00:03:17,400 So memorizing words out of the context means taking that word out and just memorizing it purely, just like a word. 39 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,733 For example, the word “to want” you don’t want to memorize just the word to want. 40 00:03:21,733 --> 00:03:28,500 You want to memorize the word, I want to go to school. I want to eat ice-cream. 41 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:31,300 It should be in a sentence. 42 00:03:31,966 --> 00:03:34,933 Imagine a Thai person memorizing the word want. To want as “yak”. 43 00:03:34,933 --> 00:03:38,400 Imagine a Thai person memorizing the word want. To want as “yak” ("Want" in Thai). 44 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:45,866 And then, they will be making a sentence like this “I want eat”. Because in Thai there’s no article. 45 00:03:45,866 --> 00:03:50,066 And another example is the word “abide”. 46 00:03:50,066 --> 00:03:55,766 “Abide” in English is an old word which means to live or to stay. 47 00:03:55,766 --> 00:04:02,033 But, if, let’s say you see the word abide and you want to memorize it as “live”. 48 00:04:02,033 --> 00:04:06,966 Then you would say “I abide in a hotel for 3 days”. 49 00:04:06,966 --> 00:04:10,500 Then that would sound weird. Because it’s not used. 50 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:15,466 So you can not use the word abide as much as you use the word “live”. 51 00:04:15,466 --> 00:04:18,966 So that is why “abide” needs to come with context 52 00:04:18,966 --> 00:04:23,766 and you need to understand the word in its context that it’s old that it’s used in… 53 00:04:23,766 --> 00:04:30,033 for example, the Lord abides in me. Something like that, from the bible, you know. This is why it’s important. 54 00:04:30,733 --> 00:04:37,433 Okay, now we have the words and we know that we have to put it in context. 55 00:04:37,433 --> 00:04:44,500 So, what do we do after that? You can use flashcards like Quizlet, Anki. 56 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:47,966 in google sheet, you can put it in google document. 57 00:04:47,966 --> 00:04:48,166 You can put it in post it. You can write them in a notebook with colored pencils. 58 00:04:48,166 --> 00:04:53,300 You can put it in post it. You can write them in a notebook with colored pencils. 59 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:55,033 There are many ways that people do. 60 00:04:55,033 --> 00:05:04,666 But for me, myself, and personally I think that this works best and this is the most efficient way to learn words. 61 00:05:04,666 --> 00:05:10,133 What I do is that I take blogs or whatever is written on the internet 62 00:05:10,133 --> 00:05:14,100 and I read them over and over and over again. 63 00:05:14,100 --> 00:05:22,100 And I read stuff that are in the same theme, the same topic so that the words inside 64 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:25,566 keeps repeating and repeating itself again and again. 65 00:05:25,566 --> 00:05:31,466 And this is how I learn words. And if the word appears one time and doesn’t repeat again 66 00:05:31,466 --> 00:05:36,466 and I happen to memorize it, I happen to remember it, then that’s really nice. 67 00:05:36,466 --> 00:05:42,633 But I don’t really care about them so much if they only appear one time after reading 20 articles. 68 00:05:42,633 --> 00:05:45,733 If they appear one time then it’s something not important. 69 00:05:45,733 --> 00:05:50,100 But if they appear in every article, that means it’s something that I have to know 70 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:55,633 and I will care about it and I will give more attention to this word. 71 00:05:55,633 --> 00:06:00,066 So personally, I don’t really use flashcards to memorize vocabulary. 72 00:06:00,066 --> 00:06:07,866 When I read I like to read online. I don’t really read books, like paper book. 73 00:06:07,866 --> 00:06:12,500 The reason is because it’s easier to find vocabulary. 74 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,933 There are some tools that I use and that I want to share with you. 75 00:06:15,933 --> 00:06:18,966 The first tool that I like to use is Readlang. 76 00:06:18,966 --> 00:06:23,000 So what I do is that I will go into topics that I want to know. 77 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,933 In this case, I’m going to write how to learn English at home. 78 00:06:26,933 --> 00:06:31,500 And I will just go to the first, second, or third topic. 79 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:38,966 Can be this one, this one, or this one. I will choose the first one that appears. 80 00:06:38,966 --> 00:06:40,866 So I will choose the correct language. 81 00:06:40,866 --> 00:06:45,366 Now let’s say I want to learn Spanish and I want it to translate to English. 82 00:06:45,366 --> 00:06:54,566 I would go here. What is “maneras”, Okay then I would learn that this is “Ways”. Demasiado, costosa. 83 00:06:54,566 --> 00:07:04,366 And with this, I will be able to read through the text without having to go back and forth to the dictionary. 84 00:07:04,366 --> 00:07:12,866 You can try to understand the text straight away and not only learning the vocabs but learning the content itself. 85 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:15,733 I think that is the point of Readlang. 86 00:07:16,133 --> 00:07:25,966 And there is this other site that is made by Steve Kaufmann who is another polyglot and its main focus is reading. 87 00:07:25,966 --> 00:07:35,866 So it works kind of like Readlang. But in LingQ itself there are texts that are already prepared for beginners. 88 00:07:35,866 --> 00:07:40,733 So I really recommend beginners to check it out. I think it’s really really interesting. 89 00:07:40,733 --> 00:07:48,566 Another site, actually not a site. It’s a chrome extension that I like to use is called Language Reactor. 90 00:07:48,566 --> 00:07:57,699 So with Language Reactor, you can read through the transcript of Netflix or Youtube with subtitles 91 00:07:57,699 --> 00:08:02,233 and through this, you can just click stuff that..words that you don’t know 92 00:08:02,233 --> 00:08:10,000 and it has its translation and the words can be saved and can be revised later. 93 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:17,133 I think it works really well for those that want to study words with context and from the movie that you like. 94 00:08:17,699 --> 00:08:20,766 All right guys, thank you so much for watching this video. 95 00:08:20,766 --> 00:08:28,533 And if any of you want to see another video about the tools that I use for different languages, 96 00:08:28,533 --> 00:08:32,566 please write in the comments and let me know. See you.