Hello! So, welcome to this video and here we go. We're gonna be talking about YouTube
in this video and I'm gonna be showing you how to maximise YouTube for language learning.
Now, first things first, you're gonna get the most from YouTube if you sign in if you
have an account. If you don't, you can still watch videos, it's just that if you sign in,
you're gonna be able to make lists and subscribe and you're just gonna get a lot more from
it. So, I am gonna just demonstrate what you can do without signing in. So here we go.
Let's see. Lindsay Does Languages! Ok, and, so if you type something into YouTube, you're
gonna get shown channels and videos related to that topic. Because we've gone directly
for a channel, we're gonna get a channel. Ahh, there I am! What a brilliant still! Classic.
So, when you kind of see the basic channel page, you know you've got playlists of videos
and also videos from other channels that that person many have created. You can click the
videos tab directly and you can order, you know, by most popular, newest, or oldest to
newest as well. And then also if we just go back to the homepage, let me show you. Ok,
stop that again. That's a better still. That's better. There you go. That's all you wanna
do, you just click subscribe, that red subscribe button when you're logged in, as I say when
you're logged in you can click that and that's gonna show you all the new content on your
YouTube feed. It's gonna know what you like...Featured Channels. This is something, for example,
I have MundoTrundle featured as a channel because it's something that I've created.
They're ones that the content, the person from the channel has decided to be there.
Related Channels? I don't get to pick what goes there. So all of these channels are just
YouTube kind of algorithms, so you can see, look, Easy Languages. Wow. I'm pretty flattered
that they're there. That's cool. This is an amazing starting point for learning languages
on YouTube. This channel is insanely good! You've got so many languages, people going
out into the streets and just speaking. Again, all you wanna do is just click subscribe when
you're logged in. So, let's do that. We keep talking about logging in! Now is the time!
So, I'm just gonna sign in as me. If you have a general Google account then I think you
automatically get a YouTube account. I'm just gonna log in and show you. Du du-da-da dah!
So now instantly, you can see things have changed slightly, I'm not just getting the
generic Justin Beiber and Adele, I'm getting personalised things like Karl Pilkington and
Peep Show. Yay! And Top 10s about Mean Girls and Amelie...wow. Giving you a little insight
into my life here. So, if you click that subscriptions tab on the side there, sorry I was chatting
away there, click subscriptions and this shows you all the channels you're subscribed to.
You can browse them. You used to be able to manage them a lot better. You can't do that
as much now as you used to. But you can still browse general channels here, so you know,
if you're looking for new channels, by clicking subscriptions and clicking browse, these are
channels that you're not subscribed to but are recommended for you perhaps or just the
general categories of channels as well. So this can be a way to find those basic things
to get you started. You can also click that library tab and this is where it will store
playlists that you've created or that you've liked or saved along the way. So all you wanna
do is click the 'New Playlist' button and this is gonna be where you can create your
own playlist. You wanna go private. The difference here is private is completely no-one can see,
unlisted however, this means that you're going to get a link but it's not gonna be public,
so if you wanna share it with friends but you don't want the world to see your playlist,
unlisted is what you want. And then finally, you've got public, which, is kind of obvious.
We're just gonna go for private because we just wanna demo this, we don't wanna put this
out to the world. So for example, 'Spanish videos to help me learn'. There we go. Create.
And...du-du-da-dah! We've just created a new YouTube playlist. Go us! Click the 'add videos'
button, and then, this is the best bit, you just search directly from YouTube. You can
use the URL, or if you have your own videos, you can use that as well. But let's say for
example, ahh ok, Tio Spanish, this is a brilliant example. I love this so much. This is a great
channel for learning Spanish. So...there we go! These are all the videos that come up.
They're in kind of a random order when they come up in this playlist feed. But let's just
click one as an example. And there you go. That's added now to the playlist. So all you
do again, just 'add videos', type in what you're looking for. So let's try that 'easy
Spanish' now from Easy Languages. And there you go. Again, random order! 33, 30, 1. Let's
start with 1. And you can also demo the videos as well in this feed. So if you're thinking,
'ooo, is this good quality? Is this one that I actually want to watch?' you can demo that
as well. Da-du-du-duh! Perfect. So let's pause that. We like it, we're gonna add it. Done!
Check us out! You can add a description if you want to, and you can also adjust those
settings. So if you do want to make it public or unlisted, or alter that. You can also change
the ordering so you know if you want the newest videos to go to the top of the playlist, kind
of I guess like flashcards, isn't it? You don't wanna constantly be watching the same
videos at the beginning or constantly be learning those same flashcards at the start, so you
can order them newest first, or oldest first. You can choose, kind of, auto-add stuff and
add rules, for example, if the title contains 'learn Spanish' then it's gonna automatically
add any video that is added to YouTube to this playlist if they're titled 'learn Spanish',
but that's not necessarily gonna generate the best content so you could use this and
you could be very specific but we're not gonna do that today but we know it's there. And
there we go! So now because I said 'newest added', it's swapped the order round can you
see that because it's gone by 'date added' so it's gone 'newest first' now because we
added Easy Spanish later. Ok, let's now go into a sort of specific video. We're gonna
take you to, ahh, well, first of all this is the playlist. Can you see now? We've got
our playlist for you listed down the side. You can shuffle and repeat them as well. Now
I wanna show you a video here on Tio Spanish just as an example of how to make the most
of the actual kind of video itself. So...this is a good one 'que ver in Madrid'. Bueno.
Ok, here we go. Isn't it cute? Little fingers?! Ahh! Love it! Now what you wanna do, this
is like your secret weapon, and it's not on all videos but if you click this 'CC' button.
If the creator of the video has added subtitles, that is like, oh, amazing! And you can also
click the cog and you're gonna get a little subtitles tab now and you can change that.
So you see it just says Spanish? It doesn't say 'auto-generated'. If it says auto-generated,
like, next to Spanish, that's what YouTube thinks the person is saying in the video and
it's not always entirely accurate. So you wanna make sure it doesn't say auto-generated
because that's not necessarily gonna help you. And then you're gonna get that red bar
under 'CC' when you've got subtitles. There you go! 'Tio Spanish - aprender español'
and we're away. Look at that, subtitles. Get rid of the ad. Yay! Cool! So, what else can
we do when we're within the video? Click that cog again, and you're gonna notice the speed
tab ok. You can speed up videos but that would be crazy. Spanish is fast enough! We want
to slow them down, so we're gonna go 0.5, so half-speed and 'vaaaamooos a cooontaarooos
quuue-' and it's gonna be this kind of very very slow, this very very slow sound that
we're gonna get, but it can help when you're in those early stages. Absolutely, it can
really really help. So, ok. Oh yes, and from here as well, you can add it directly to playlists
so you can just, here's a selection of my playlists that I've created. Where's our one
that we've made to demo? I can't find it. Right, so, you can search 'Spanish...' there
we go. And it's just added that video to our new playlist. Easy peasy! You can do that
from direct within the video screen. Obviously this is gonna be slightly different if you're
on an app or if you're on your phone or your tablet, but it's you know, you'll begin to
pick up how to do this. Now ok, let's say for example 'Frozen letra'. Now you're gonna
have the list of Ultimate YouTube Keywords within the downloadables section of the course
so check that out because you can type in, you know, Taylor Swift, Frozen, Justin Beiber,
all of these big, sort of huge popular things and then just like a keyword like 'letra'.
So 'letra' means lyrics and boom - you know, 'Taylor Swift español'. Wow, look at that.
There's so many! So there's so much just there that people have created that you can completely
use for free to help you learn the language you're learning. And video is so, you know,
we respond to video, I think it's a brilliant brilliant medium but yeah, I love it, love
it love it love it! Ok, so, let's go down. A few more things just before we finish. At
the very bottom of the page, you'll see this, 'language' tab. And, this is a real obvious
one but you can change your language so we'll stick with the Spanish theme we're going for.
Español (España). Language of YouTube changed. Note that the videos have not changed. Ok,
the videos are gonna be the same, YouTube isn't that magic...yet. Maybe one day! But
we can also, do you see that? Change the country. And this is where the magic happens, if you
like! So if we go back to the home tab. Now we've changed the country, so that's not just
the language, the country, and you'll see that, hang on a second, we wanna go...so my
main page is the same, more or less, but if we go to, did you see that? That third one.
This is like the trending tab. Now, everything is in Spanish because this is what's trending
on YouTube Spain. You know, now YouTube thinks that we're in Spain and this is what is popular
there so you know, the last thing is we've just got this huge huge kind of range of Spanish
videos that we can just pick from. And..there we go. I think, I think that's pretty much
it. That sums up YouTube nicely and how to learn it use it for language learning. What
was I saying at the end there? See you in the next tech training!
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