hey Aubrey what's shaking today what's going on I'm great how are you feeling pretty good feeling
pretty good what are we talking about today for our listeners yeah so we got an amazing question
about um something that a listener couldn't understand in audio we get these a lot right lyy
we'll get an email that's gives us a time stamp and it's like at this time I couldn't understand
what was being said and we often will respond we're going to share the answer for one of these
today and some three tips ways that transcripts can save you from having to do this right you can
find the answers to those because this happens this happens to me too when I'm listening to
podcasts there's cross talk the audio cuts out for a second I'm like where's the transcript I need to
know what was said especially when we're learning a language right we have it we want it need to be
able to go back and so this question comes from our listener uh ye Le should I go ahead and read
the question from G yes okay dear the dear allers english team hope this email finds you
well I've been listening to this podcast for about 2 weeks it is super helpful for me to level up my
English especially when you do the role plays to explain how to use the words correctly yeah
B I think our listeners love the role plays which is fantastic we he that a lot yes absolutely yes
guys hit follow if you love this show now let's go into the question there is a sentence that I
can't understand at 716 from episode 2007 when you were talking about the ever talented pinks
concert that is coming up Michelle said I had to pain I'm not sure if it's slang or the auto
subtitle translation that's wrong I already went through the context many times but I still have no
idea what it means could you please help me to understand thank you so much best regards ye L
nice good question such a good question and such a frustrating situation to be in you listen to
it over and over still can't tell what is said you're if you're watching on YouTube there's
often closed captions but they're AI generated and they're often incorrect or if you're using an AI
transcript it's often Incorrect and that's such a frustrating I've been in that situation especially
when I listen to podcasts in French and Spanish I can't tell what's being said the captions are
incorrect it's so frustrating oh it's so frustrating and when it comes to learning
languages we need those nuances especially at our listeners levels right intermediate to Advanced
we it's time to dig in and really understand that cross talk right what are how are we interrupting
each other like what you just said you just said exactly I talked right over you which is 100%
normal and natural but our listeners need to hear that and that probably wouldn't show up in every
transcript necessarily yeah some of it is just skipped entirely if there's a little bit of cross
talk if the audio cuts out because sometimes when native speakers interrupt each other talk over
each other it does affect the audio on the mics on the recording this is very common but it's how
we speak how Native speak you need to be able to hear that and understand that yeah there's also
false starts we do a lot of false starts we start saying something and then we stop or we change to
another thought I do it constantly abolutely yes exactly so I looked I checked our allers English
transcripts and what Michelle says is I had to use pink right and instead of it sounded like and what
YouTube translated as was I had to pain the word pain p a i n which would make no sense to anyone
watching the YouTube video unfortunately Michelle was using an example with the vocabulary you were
teaching ever popular and she used this example said allow me to introduced the ever popular pink
said she's a huge pink fan and so she says I had to use Pink as her example that makes sense are
you a pink fan Aubrey do you like pink I like pink I've never been to a concert I don't it's not my
favorite style of music but I get why Michelle loves her she is like strong independent amazing
woman her shows are very impressive with how um acrobatic all the gymnastics so I've seen some
little Clips I'm like that would be a fun show yeah 100% 100% I bet it would be a great concert
yeah so where do we go from here so we've answered our question for elay for our listener here and
what is our message for today's episode what are we what are we getting into well so first of all
we have to think about the difference between Ai and human generated transcripts because the only
option elay had was to email us and have us let her know what was said or to get allers English
transcripts right these are created by humans proof R by humans native English speakers who are
catching all of these little mistakes we put a lot of time in to make sure they're perfect so when
you have those transcripts these the ones that we create they are so useful for your learning and we
want to dive into that a little bit we're going to share three tips of how having transcripts
can really maximize your learning speed up your progress but we want to make it clear that we're
talking about human generated transcripts here there are a lot of AI transcripts out there that
really that's about the same as the YouTube Clos captions there are going to be a lot of errors
yeah and the best way to get our transcripts is to go to our app guys alls english.com slapp the app
is available for Android and iOS and a lot of students hundreds and hundreds of students are
over there uh monthly as premium users accessing the transcript so you can listen to the show on
the app for free but then if you're a member you see the transcripts in real time as you listen
and you also get to tap on vocab words that we have selected for you but we'll talk about
that a little bit later Aubrey let's get into to the benefits of actually listening with a human
created transcript by your side or on your screen perfect okay so number one is it speeds up your
progress in improving your listening comprehension so I was looking up some stats and the average B1
listener understands about 60% of audio without a transcript but after reading a transcript once
or twice they will understand 90% or more so this is a huge jump yeah amazing so moving from 60% to
90% is that true that is incredible I love that yeah so if you there are many options here right
you find what works for you you can listen without the transcript first to try and gauge how much you
understand without and then follow along with the transcript or you can read the transcript first
and then listen to the audio right there are so many options here yes I love that idea a lot of
ways you can do it but the key is that Gap filling in the gap between 60 and 90% I mean that's kind
of an 8020 thing right 20% of your effort covers 80% of the results I love that idea yes and think
about how much more vocabulary you going to learn because if you only understand 60% that 40% is all
of the most interesting vocabulary that's a little less familiar that you want to be adding some of
these words to improve not only your listening comprehension but your vocabulary yeah it gives
you this glimpse into the real language what's really being said and I love the second way that
transcripts help you which is Saving Time tell us about this Aubrey how are we saving time so when
you're listening to a podcast our podcast podcast made for native speakers whatever podcast we're
talking about there will inevitably be words that you don't know if you can't figure them out from
Context it's very timec consuming to look each one up in the dictionary right so I found this
article called how to use podcasts when you're learning a language by Thomas M Devlin it was
from Jan anuary of 2022 and there were many tips here but one he was talking about with
transcripts was focusing on how much it saves you time if you are able to see the words especially
with our app like you were saying Lindsay where you can just click on these more difficult words
that we've highlighted we Define it give you an example sentence you are saving so much time that
you can spend in better ways oh my gosh for sure right if I think about learning Spanish it's like
getting that window into the TR not what I think is being said but what is actually being said in
reality right when I listen to Spanish it's a whole it's almost having your own translator
right there for you right yes and imagine if you had a translator right next to you that would save
you a ton of time too no one can afford that so instead we have these resources that we can
use to be able to quickly add vocabulary have it defined with an example sentence it's so amazing
when you listen with the app not only does it save you so much time you learn so much more
yeah but it's important to know that it's not every single word that we're going to try to
Define and tap on inside the app and learn and add to our list right Aubrey I mean how many
words more or less make sense in a given episode of allers English to actually focus on yeah five
to eight is what we recommend that's how many we highlight in the app there may be more words
than that that you're unfamiliar with but think how how long it's going to take if you're trying
to add and you'll never actually be able to add them to your active vocabulary if you add more
than 5 to eight to your vocabulary list then you're never going to go back and actually use
those in conversation yeah it's kind of the same feeling of when I went into our monday.com and I
looked at my overdue tasks and there were many overdue I can imagine after being out of town
yeah you just you can't you you drown yourself in work to do right and the same thing would
happen if literally we could tap on every single word in an episode added to our list all the
words become meaningless because how are you ever going to learn all of those words guys instead we
do the work for you we choose the five to eight words that are going to uplevel you from B1 or
B2 up into C1 those are the ones to focus on right Aubrey exactly yes all right number three what is
the next way the Third Way Aubrey the advantage we're diving into learning styles here because
transcripts are so vital for visual Learners right there are four predominant learning styles visual
ual auditory Reading Writing and kinesthetic which is like physical touch if you are that
auditory learner it's easier for you to listen to a podcast and be okay without following Along on
a transcript but again these other one and two are going to be important here it's going to save you
time but if you are a visual learner it's going to be vital for you to have that transcript yeah
what is your learning style Aubrey I am a very visual learner I love podcasts I love listening
to podcasts but when it comes to learning a foreign language when I'm listening in Spanish
and French it's very difficult for me to not see the words I visualize the words in my mind I I am
a very I much prefer to read a book really even than listen to a podcast or at least follow along
on the transcript what about you Lindy I think I'm a mix of visual and auditory because when I
speak a foreign language let's say no podcast no textbook in front of me I actually see the
words in a sentence in my head there's like this little bubble where I Envision the the sentences
being written out so I guess that's visual but I also say it in my head I repeat it over and over
so that's auditory when you bring up a good point that many people are a mixture of these different
learning styles but it's important that you are aware of what your learning style is or you might
be really doing yourself a disservice in the way that you are taking in information the way you
are learning you should work hand inhand with your learning style so I actually found a quiz online
to find out your learning style if you aren't sure it's a great one I looked at it it's it's
at www.learning.com and I've sh I've shared some of the questions here Lindsay so we can share the
kinds of questions you're going to see on this quiz that will help you determine what is your
learning style yeah what are they for example just to get it started yeah for example you remember
better if you and then on one side we'll be write it down the other side is hear it and then we have
a range right you might be halfway toward a right in the middle or like extreme end write it down
instead of hear it and this is going to gauge you know how far between these two you are I love that
and then the next question would be when you work on assignments do you get them done right away or
do you tend to procrastinate that's interesting I wonder what that would tell us about learning
style right procrastination or what do you think I don't know I was really fascinated looking at
all of these questions because you might expect them to be much more straightforward about you
know are you a visual learning or are you an AUD auditory learner there is such a wide range of
questions that it's fascinating to think about the science that has gone into this to find out
like if you procrastinate that has something to do with what type of learner you are as well
interesting I mean the first question is pretty straightforward but that second one I don't know
what the what that would what that would point to you know if you tend to procrastinate I don't
know if that would point to really want to dive into the science of this like what does that have
to do with it how what does that you know what does that say about me the next one you prefer
to talk or listen again I wouldn't really have thought about this having to do with the way I
take in information but it does yeah I mean people have done research on this for years
and the most important key is knowing ourselves right I think that's a key auy of adult Learners
that is the difference between our listeners and someone who is in middle school or High School
not necessarily taking control as an adult it's on you to take control and tell your tutor tell
your teacher what you need we've talked about this how to go into a lesson and say can we structure a
lesson around my giving you instructions on how to do something I know we've talked about this a lot
this year that is the difference for success for adult Learners absolutely this reminds me when I
was a high school teacher it was my responsibility to find out what type of Learners my students were
so that I could help them now it's a different situation right as an adult learner you have
to find this out about yourself so that you can make sure that the resources you are taking in
the way you are learning are optimized to help you progress as quickly and as effectively as
possible yeah so I think that first step then is going taking going and taking that quiz guys
so Aubrey again what is the URL for that quiz where our listeners can get started so it was
www.learning.com yes love it go on over there and aubery do we have a takeaway for our listeners
where should we leave them today what should we keep in mind absolutely you guys may not
be getting all you could from listening to our podcast other English learning podcasts
any podcast that you might listen to in English these can all be incredible resources for your
learning but you likely need transcripts to maximize your learning however you you know
whatever you find is the best route for that transcripts are really going to improve the
way you learn English love it good stuff so guys go over and and check out the allers English app
go to allers english.com apppp available for Android and iOS and see what that has
to offer with our human created transcripts with cross talk and false starts and all the
things we want to learn that is actually real English it's not rehears prepared English it's
realistic English Aubrey exactly yes awesome go get the app allers english.com all right
take care Aubrey I'll talk to you soon have a good day see you next time bye oh [Music]