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How to learn English fast - Part 2
So guys, going back to what I said in the first part of this video,
I believe that the best way to learn
a language, in this case English,
faster is through immersion.
So today, I will continue giving you tips on how to create an immersion environment
an exchange program,
in your own home.
Guys, why would you waste time watching dubbed movies in Portuguese, no, no,
don't do this, instead...
Instead of watching a dubbed movie, which is usually very poorly dubbed,
turn on the SAP audio. It's a tool available to almost everyone,
so watch the movie with SAP on, so that you can watch it in its original language and practice
your English.
If you're a beginner, you may have to wait a little bit
before you can understand a movie in English,
but if you have watched the movie before,
you may understand it because you already have the main idea in your head,
so,
even if you're a beginner, you can watch movies and series with SAP on
and practice your English watching TV.
Another tip
is listening
to music in English,
but listening and paying attention to the lyrics
because American music, like it or not, is part of our day-to-day life,
you turn on the radio in Brazil
and some stations play more American songs than
Brazilian songs, so it's something that we're very used to listening,
but I think that sometimes, we don't pay attention to the lyrics,
so, stop to
pay attention to the lyrics and if you don't understand them or if you
don't understand the main idea of the song,
go online and look for the lyrics,
see if you understand them, if you don't understand a word, look for its meaning
in a dictionary. I believe that music is one of the best ways
to learn a language, I use this technique a lot. For all the languages I learn,
I...
the first thing I do is to look for
music in that language and listen, listen, listen as often as possible
why?
Because it's something pleasurable, you end up learning and having fun at
the same time. An observation is that when I was a kid, I used to sing all
the songs in English, even without understanding them, without knowing the lyrics,
I used to sing them all wrong and
only now that I got
better in English
I see how I used to sing them all wrong, guys.
I don't know if you're noticing it, but I'm trying to give you tips that incorporate
activities that you already or that you probably already do
in your day-to-day life and incorporate English to them, so, in fact, it would't
be an extra effort,
only that you would be doing everything in English, so...
You try to take all activities you do on daily basis and incorporate
English to them. And one thing that you probably do is reading
the news. Many people, most people read the news every day,
so why not read the news
in English?
I website that I highly recommend is The Economist.
It's one of the best news websites in the world, it's a British website,
so instead of visiting a Brazilian website to read the news, you go to The
Economist or to The New York Times
and read the news in English. If you want to read the news about
Brazil,
you search for Brazil on those websites, with a Z, of course,
and they will show you all the news about Brazil and another cool thing is that
when you read the news in English, you get out of the bubble
because in Brazil, we're bombarded with
the news, with perhaps the same type of news all the time,
you get out of that bubble
and see what people from other countries
are reporting,
I'm not sure if that word exists, but...
what they're saying about Brazil, so you see
other points of view regarding Brazil. It's a very cool way not
only
to learn English, but also to expand your mind.
So guys, I don't know if in Brazil people have been talking about
this, but here in the United States, I've been seeing
that people have been talking a lot about the benefits of keeping a journal
of stopping,
of having a time during your day to stop and write and think about your day,
about yourself and develop self-knowledge, so
why not keep a journal in English?
And you don't need to give details
about your day, everything you did in English, it could be one or two
sentences, something you've learned, something you've seen and
this way, you're practicing your writing, every day you will
write a little bit, so you will be practicing your writing and, in fact, getting
two benefits in one because you willl not only
stop to think about your day, so have a time to reflect,
but you will also
practice your writing in English, so it's another thing
that everyone can do is keeping a journal
in English.
Guys, I think this was one of the first things I did when I
decided that I wanted to learn English,
it was changing the settings of my phone and my computer to English,
so change the language settings, change the apps,
everything to English
and, in addition to that, on Facebook, you should like pages that
offer content in English because this way, you will always
see on your feed, you will always see content in English,
articles in English, so you can transform Facebook in
a place where you can be in touch with the English language and practice
the language, so don't forget to
use this tip.
This tip was given to my by an Italian teacher, an Italian
teacher here in the Unites States,
which is tagging everything at your place
with post-it notes,
with those yellow stickers. Tag the floor, tag your fridge, tag your books, tag
everything
with the name of the object in that language, so in English for example, floor, book,
bed,
tag everything
and you will not only learn, really have those words in your head, learn
new words and improve your vocabulary,
but by seeing those tags all the time, you will also have the English language
in your mind all the time and remember to practice and that you're learning
that language and that you're in an immersion, so it's a very
cool technique. Tag things
with their names
in English.
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I'll see you next week. Kisses!