hey everyone it's Wendy in this video
I'll be talking about my top 5 tips when
it comes to language learning a lot of
people ask me see just give me one
really good tip about language learning
what would it be or what is the best way
to learn
so until language well I'm going to be
covering ok tips and these are what I
would call the top 5 and the best advice
I have for you for learning a specific
language right so the first tip is
immersion everything you do normally in
your own language you should try and do
in another language I always use the
example of the shower it's kind of silly
but it tends to work while exciting so
you're in the shower and you're thinking
to yourself in whatever language you're
usually thinking oh I need to go grab
some shampoo why don't you try and
change that into the language you're
learning
why don't you actively try and force
yourself to think in the language that
you're learning for example Korean is
not one of my native languages are
learning cream so I would think instead
of thinking like when chef Oakland which
is also time for a change
who I always think oh I'm going up here
pending shampoo or chemical weapon clean
Yeti oh where is the shampoo in Japanese
so try and actively force yourself to
change your thinking into your target
language immersion is not only you're
trying to force yourself into safe
language or thinking it but it's doing
everything you do in a date in your
second language so let's say you're
writing your calendar and you need to
meet see them for lunch tomorrow
time right that's Emily wood you're
learning you want to see it everywhere I
know some friends who are learning
Japanese and they stick a little tag on
their house and label everything they
label the furniture saying that this is
e to the chair they just stick up Texas
Japanese everywhere you can also try and
listen to music explicitly in the
language that you're learning so that
you're constantly hearing it and getting
used it so babies don't really sit and
learn what textbooks but when they're
learning language right I think that
people will learn languages they can't
use do it so a different language is
basically a different set of sounds that
we get used to write so it's very
important to constantly be hearing the
language and getting used to it ensure
that a few of you will agree with me
that if you listen to a song and there's
a word or a sentence that you don't
understand and you don't actively go and
look it up and you come back and listen
to the song a few days or weeks later
and you're like hey I actually
understand what that means or it's just
click so I constantly need to expose
yourself to learn English because things
will just click and you'll get used to
it it's also an excellent way to build
some ingrained grammar into into your
mind because you'll be hearing things
that aren't correct and you'll sort of
be like when you hear something over
like that sounds right I don't know why
but it sounds right so then you probably
heard it a few times and you just don't
actively remember click number two is to
use words as soon as you learned we have
a little memory graph which goes down
really steep with words that you learn
for example if I tell you right now that
the word thumb means bread in Korean and
I've asked you now how do you say bread
in Korean you probably know how to
answer right up because I just told you
but if I asked you in an hour from now
you probably won't remember right that's
we're going to have a little memory
graph and as time goes on our retention
rate goes down really sharply but if you
make sure to use the word you just
learnt as soon as possible and as much
as possible this little graph won't be
so steep and your attention rate will
gradually become state so how can you
use these words in sentences if you
don't ask them what you talk to if you
watch another video of how to practice
languages as an introvert
maybe you'll get some tips
there are some really excellent websites
and apps where you can meet people who
speak the language that you're learning
you can alternatively talk to yourself
or keep a diary
that's my searches well as the most
important tips I have is keeping a daily
diary a lot of people go to language
lessons once or twice a week
they cover all suitable work and for the
rest of the week they don't use the
language what's the point right you want
to make sure you use this language every
single day because you will forget it
and it will become rusty I can realize
even after a few months of maybe being
in Japan for a holiday my Japanese have
brought up and my Korean have gone down
because I wasn't using Korean for three
months regardless of the fact that I've
been studying for eight or nine years so
keeping a diary is really good could you
forcing yourself to use the language
every single day for example you'll be
writing a sentence in your diary and
you'll think oh I don't actually know
how to say that word how do you say
whatever you want right how do you have
situation is good for to read the first
reason is you'll be first to open up a
dictionary like this look up the words
read it see it say it out loud and use
it and remember it and learn some new
words all the way and I think the reason
that that would be good is if you don't
have a dictionary at hand or if you're
lazy like me you don't want to look up
the word you can always figure out a way
to talk around and say what you want to
say without using that word so what if I
don't know word for banana and I wasn't
right in my diary that I had a really
delicious tonight update so I would if I
didn't want to look at the word I would
say today I had a really nice and I know
the word yellow and n are the worst food
I had a really nice yellow fruit and
you've noticed a banana right
unless you're the cancellous point being
not knowing words when you're writing -
forcing you to say things in a different
way and this is
fail to have when you're having
conversations right you're not going to
sit and talk to some women be like
excuse me let me just look up this word
sorry paging for my victory no you need
to be accented on your feet while you're
having the conversation for that reason
you need to learn and treat your brain
how to talk around and use different
words and concepts to express what
you're actually trying to say without
actually having to say the word right
the next tip number four is repetition
and listening if you're watching a video
or a series of in the language you're
learning you can pause the video and
repeat what the person is date this is
good for two reasons number one
everything's good for two reasons the
first reason is you're practicing a
natural accent you might sound really
awkward but if you live alone like me
nobody knows you can watch your normal
pulpit and repeat what's person said
you'll be practicing a native accent you
can also record yourself and listen back
and compare it to what this person says
the second thing that is good about
repeating things in dramas is something
I touched on previously is that you'll
in bringing this certain grammar
structures and vocabulary in your money
without actually sitting with a textbook
and studying you don't need to make
studying or learning language for it
remember it's getting used I'm not
learning languages and the last kiss is
actual study time train your own against
what I just said we a lot of people have
discussed in the comments as well and
some people always ask me what do you do
when you reach the top just assume
nobody in language learning likes to
hear about not all that is there's a
little big bigger mountain right and you
get to intermediate and then you've had
all and you're like am i treated and I'd
like to just stay the same and it can be
for years I noticed you on a state level
you'll be comfortable you'll be able to
talk to people express yourself you
could even be good enough to be on TV
but you're not intruding you're not
learning a fast vocabulary every
studying comes in because daily
conversation tends to be on an upper
intermediate level you can just get by
with it right but if you really want to
which is women master if you want to go
to writing and reading novels be reading
the newspapers you'll know what I'm
talking about if I was talking about the
Korean or Japanese music those are
really difficult then you really need to
sit down and they time to study the
language it's also good to to really
ingrain grammar structures in your
memories because sometimes natural
language which a lot of people obviously
people using it's good but they can be
wrong there can be a lot of people words
and phrases that people are using wrong
so when you do do your writings or
reading a report if you're doing top
interview in your language you don't
want to be using the wrong grammar even
if everybody else to use it you want to
be a step above and really reach that
advanced level that's why it's really
important to make time get yourself some
books and sit and study but remember my
first and most important tip is
immersion everything you do try and do
in that language you don't have to sit
and study every single day make sure you
get a bit of that trying to do some
things in that language every day do
something that you like for example if
you're into fashion design or soccer why
don't you watch a documentary in the
language you're learning or why don't
you go and buy a magazine in the
language over and try to make it fun for
yourself I hope you tips helped you and
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