Using chunking can really speed up your language learning and help you to speak
English more fluently more quickly so
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV your personal language coach
teacher and speaker so what is chunking and how can you do it find out in this
video which is step four in my series on how to speak English fluently and
confidently in six months forget grammar rules and vocabulary
lists if you really want to improve your fluency skills so that the language
comes out of your mouth easily and readily you want to use the vocabulary
not just study it so you need to start chunking so what is chunking
well let's just imagine you and I were having a conversation and I say things
like yes I agree with you or in my opinion and then you might start to talk
to me about your visit to the shops and you'd say well by the way we didn't stay
long at the shops now what do all these sentences have in common well they all
contain chunks of language things like yes I agree in my opinion by the way
didn't stay long so chunking is fixed phrases or patterns that are learnt in
chunks as a unit not as individual words you learn the whole thing without
thinking about it really chunking is using groups of words that have found
frequently together their bites of language so even in fact when you start
to learn English do you remember some of the first things that you actually had
to learn things like how are you well that's a chunk and another example when
a child says I want plus a noun and often they receive something that
they're asking for so that's a chunk of language
I want to plus now although try not to say that because I want a bit rude so
they're phrases and chunks of language that are required without breaking them
down into individual words but just as they are and you know
learning in chunks of language is the real key to getting fluent it's one of
the big secrets and actually getting fluent quickly as well have you ever
wondered how it is that native speakers speak so fast so quickly and so fluently
at the same time to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in
the mind to suffer the sins and I was a very just fortunate on second to see if
troubles of my posing in them to die to sleep adventure doing mother you get the
idea well here's one of the secrets they have
a big library of these chunks of language or fixed phrases inside their
heads just ready to be picked out and used they use them frequently if you've
noticed often they use the same phrases so why not copy us native speakers and
do exactly the same thing yourself you can use it for your second language
production so English or whatever language you're learning now there are
two big advantages or two chunking and learning English through chunking the
first one is speed so you can speak and write much faster because all you have
to do is to bring out these fixed phrases from your head and bring them
out of your mouth and they're ready for you to use instantly and accuracy as
well as the second point the second big advantage because you know you've
learned them from native speakers do you know that these phrases are going to be
accurate you don't need to worry so how you're going to do this well let me
start by telling you what you're not going to do you're not going to just
study phrasal verb dictionaries or study collocation books that's not real
English phrases they're okay but they're not good for finding real chunks of the
language instead it's much more fun that you notice them yourself and then you
can learn them in chunks mmm notice them yourself you say how
easy is that well actually I'm gonna show you here's
my guide on how to find chunks of English and how to learn them oh and
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email me on the email address below did react palm tree teaching calm I really
hope that you take advantage of this now there are three main places that you can
get really good examples of native speaking chunks of language
the first one is freeze books now you may be slightly surprised to hear that
but actually they're a really good starting place for finding real English
phrases as spoken by native speakers just make sure that it's one of those
phrase books that has sentences and not just word lists the second place to find
chunks of English is in English books but make sure they're English books for
native speakers are not just for learners of English because that way
you'll get proper English real English as spoken by US native speakers also
make sure the books are modern because you don't want to sound like Charles
Dickens these days it would sound really strange now number three the third place
to find vocabulary and chunks of language in context is through videos
YouTube videos audios podcasts and TV programs now most films and most YouTube
videos now have subtitles which makes it much easier for you to use the language
and find it and make notes of these chunks so what you do is you go through
these resources and listen to them or watch them whatever you choose to to do
and make notes in a notebook of all the phrases and the chunks of language that
you hear you'll remember them much easier if you find them for yourself
it's real active learning may seem like quite a lot but I can tell
you it'll really speed up your fluency so for the next stage then you're going
to ask me well how do you learn them well I'm gonna tell him it's really easy
and really simple and you're like this you just simply learn them by heart
that's all you have to do you play the recordings of the original if it's a
film or if it's a video or if it's a podcast you repeat it back until you can
say it confidently you'll have written it in your little notebook and then you
record yourself and compare it to the original so not only do you learn the
chunks you also learn the rhythm and the intonation of the speaking you can also
use flashcards of course to remember them right on your little phrases and
carry them around all day in your pocket looking at them frequently so it's
easier so in my next video I'm going to share with you some of the most
frequently used chunks and fixed phrases which we use here in England so make
sure you watch out for that also make sure you go watch my other videos as
well like and subscribe to this amazing channel where you will learn English
fast and improve your English fluency in a fun way I hope you really enjoyed this
video enjoy your English and I'll see you next
time bye