Hello, my dear friends! Do you recognize me?
I'm Antonia Romaker and I am teaching you English.
A lot of my students ask me to create more videos
about studying English:
how you should do it,
how you are supposed to practice listening, speaking and
how you can memorize words better and quicker.
So that's why I've decided to make another video
techniques, so, and methods of studying.
Today we'll talk about memorizing words.
How are you supposed to do that?
A lot of people complain,
that their active vocabulary is very limited.
And today we'll talk about different principles and methods
to make it better, to enlarge it, to boost it!
So first of all the first principle I want to talk about today is associations.
Whenever you come across a new word,
which you do not know,
it's a good idea to create an association with it.
It can be different kinds of associations,
first of all it can be an image.
So you study a new word, let's say, 'a bra'.
And you imagine the picture.
So you try to connect this image with the word
or two images with the word.
Always try to do that, it will help you remember words better.
That's why when we teach kids different words,
when we walk around the city and we point at different things
and we say: 'this is grass' and 'that is a dog' and so on,
the kid remembers things better.
That's why studying a foreign language in another country is good,
because you always hear words pronounced
and said in connection with some situations, contexts
and things, objects and so on.
So imagine the picture, that would be good.
Another kind of association would be
to find a word in your mother tongue
which sounds like the word you study.
A very simple and even dull example:
in English we have the word 'look',
and in Russian, let's say, there's a word 'лук',
and it means onions.
So that's why when you try to memorize this new word for you
'look' - you think about onions.
And you can create funny sentences, like... for yourself:
When I cut onions, it's hard for me to look.
So these sentences can be partially in English
and partially in your mother tongue.
Когда я режу лук, I can't look.
So when I cut onions, I can't look.
So you create such kind of associations
and this might be helpful too.
So some audio associations, things, which sound alike.
And you just connect, you create a connection.
And connections are always good in terms of studying foreign languages.
So when there's... Well, in terms of studying anything actually.
Because this is how our brain works.
It needs connections to our previous memories,
to our previous experiences.
That's why finding a word, which sounds like a new word
and finding some logic, which would connect these two words,
might be also extremely useful.
However you need to understand,
that this method might slow you down a little bit.
Because you... whenever you hear this word
you have to remember what connection, what word and so on.
So you have to build this connection and it is not that fast.
So that's why when you learned a new word, you created this association,
you need to go further, you can't stop there.
You need to introduce this word into your active vocabulary.
And how do you do it?
This is very simple, this is principle two
and it is connected with using the word as much as possible.
It can be found in different places -
in books, articles, newspapers, songs, audio files,
different podcasts, films and so on.
So different places.
You have to see and hear this word over and over again.
And then you'll remember it really well
and it's get sucked into your memory,
so that you could use this word yourself, not just understand it,
when you see or hear it, but use it yourself.
So sometimes you just need to force the word into your surroundings.
For example, you might also use different post-its
and write new words on those post-its
and put them all over your places,
so that you would suddenly bump into them here and there and see them.
That would be also a good idea.
So another tip is writing these expressions
on different pieces of paper.
The next tip, the next principle is
that it is better to try to remember words in the context.
So words... not just one word separately, it is difficult,
but try to find expressions.
For example, nouns with adjectives or nouns with verbs,
or phrases containing even three or four words, it's fine.
Because in this case once again the connections will be stronger.
You'll understand how this word is used and you will remember it.
That's why sometimes memorizing whole sentences
might be also useful.
So when you find a new word,
you might try to memorize the whole sentence. Just memorize it.
If the sentence is too long, make it shorter.
Just take out some of the words which are not necessary,
not very important here,
and create a short sentence and just memorize it.
Memorizing different quotes from films and songs
is a wonderful idea!
On the one hand you remember the song better,
you can sing along, it's great.
And on the other hand you know how these words are used,
what connections can form between different kinds of words.
So memorizing phrases and even whole sentences
is extremely useful! This is another tip for you.
It is all about connections.
So I have given you a couple of tips,
make sure to use them while studying any foreign language:
English, Russian, Arabic, Japanese and so on.
So try using them and you'll see,
that you vocabulary will grow much faster.
But that's it, we'll continue talking about
studying new words and doing it faster and more effectively.
But that's it for today.
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Happy English and Russian practice! Bye-bye!