Hey!
What's up, Awesome Go Natural English Learner?
Welcome to the episode where today we are talking about how to improve your English
using something that you probably already take with you every single day.
No, it's not your English textbook.
It's something else.
Can you guess?
Oh, hey!
Before I forget, I want to invite you to join my free training for the Go Natural English
Seven Step Method to Fluency.
You can join that at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps.
Okay, can you guess what that thing is that you carry with you all the time?
It's your smartphone!
And your smartphone is a great tool for learning the English language, regardless of what your
English teacher may have told you before, like, "Turn off your cell phone.
Don't bring your cellphone to class."
Go Natural English has a completely different opinion.
I encourage you to use your smartphone all the time to help you to learn English and
in this episode, I'm going to share my favorite five apps that are all free that can help
you to improve your English quickly.
So are you ready?
Okay, let's go!
My first favorite app is call Anki.
It's an app that's like flashcards.
Instead of having a big stack of flashcards on paper, Anki is better because, for one,
it's on your smartphone, and two, Anki shuffles your cards.
It's smart.
It doesn't show you predictable flashcards.
Like you know how sometimes when you're practicing on your own and you know what flashcard is
going to come up?
It's not like that.
It's better.
So, review is really important for you to remember new vocabulary and you need to see
your words at least twenty times to be able to remember it and start to use it.
So, try Anki.
Next, number two: My favorite app these days is Periscope.
This is an app that's free and it integrates with Twitter.
So you need a Twitter account, which is also free.
Periscope is live streaming video, which is awesome.
You can follow English speakers from anywhere in the world and when they're doing a live
video broadcast, you can listen in and you can practice your English just like if you
were in another country, listening to English speakers.
And what's even better is that you can comment, you can ask questions, you can interact with
that person.
And so I want to ask you to follow @gonaturaleng on twitter.
That's where you can tune into our live broadcasts on Periscope.
So, follow us on Twitter and follow us on Periscope at @gonaturaleng.
Okay?
Awesome!
Next, Google Translate is an effective tool for looking up individual words.
No, do not rely on Google Translate for everything all the time.
I don't recommend it for looking up phrases or idioms or full sentences because it's not
a human.
It's not a real, or good, translation usually.
So, it is helpful, though, for individual words sometimes.
So, keep it on hand, just in case you want to look up a word, but keep in mind that you
need to double check to make sure that the result is correct, okay?
Alright.
So, we have so far Anki, Periscope and Google Translate.
Evernote is the next app that I want to suggest.
It's a great way to organize all of these helpful resources.
You can file away the websites you like, photos, audio notes, this video link, for example.
Evernote is like a file cabinet in your smartphone.
It's really great.
A lot of people swear by it for language learning, for business use and for personal use.
And finally, number five: Skype or FaceTime.
These are two awesome ways to be able to connect in live time on a video chat with an English
speaker who you can practice with.
So, keep that on your phone to make calls and to connect with people using English today.
I hope that these apps are helpful and I hope this episode was informative for you.
Remember you can come join my free training at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps and I hope
you see inside where you'll get the free training and, once you're on that email list that's
a part of the free training, I'll send you invites for webinars and other special trainings
and materials that are just for the Go Natural English email list members.
So I hope to see you there!
Bye for now.