What's up guys
I just wanted to make a new video today in order to be able to share with you a
New language learning technique that I've been working on
And I'm just kind of experimenting with this. This is a one of my language notebooks and
I've never really done this before I've used language notebooks a lot in the past, but I'm kind of experimenting with a new style
Because I've seen a few different youtubers
You know kind of showed that what they do in their language notebooks, so
I'm learning Romanian
I started learning Romanian about a year ago
kind of fell off the bandwagon
Got bored of it's not that I got bored. I just got too busy really
And now I'm going to Romania this summer, so I'm trying to get back into learning some
I know I'm not going to like become fluent in Romanian before the summer but
I don't know I feel like any time I go to a new country
I want to at least make some attempts to learn that language just
In order to be able to interact with the culture that much more and even if I just learned some very basic vocabulary
Very little bit of grammar some you know pre memorized phrases
I feel like I'll just get a lot more out of my experience while I'm there
So I'm pretty excited about that and I want to kind of get my butt back into gear and start
working on my Romanian Romanian again
So I started working on this Romanian
notebook and
In the past I've used you know I've used a lot of very
Different styles of notebooks to try to learn and this is just another experiment you know
I don't know exactly how this is gonna go and I feel like I have not
Refined my technique
perfectly yet, but I just want to share this with you guys and
Who knows maybe if you guys have done something similar you might be able to spit out some ideas
and we can bounce ideas off of each other and I might be able to refine my
Technique a little bit more with this, but my whole concept for this notebook
Was that I was not going to use any English words. I was only going to use picture because I want to be able to
When I went to look through this notebook
Not have to translate these words in my head
and I don't know if that's
You know I I don't really know how this is gonna
Go is just I'm just experimenting with this so the first page
I had near first several pages is just vocabulary words, and so you can probably tell just by looking at this but
My first page is colors, and I only picked a few of the main colors. I didn't want to
you know bog my memory down with turquoise and salmon and you know and
Magenta and all this stuff, so I have you know your usual black green
white red blue yellow and
Of course the word color because that's just as important as any of the actual colors
I'm trying to make the whole book kind of colorful to make it a little bit more
Make it pop a little bit more maybe
It'll help some of these words stick in my brain a little bit more than if they're just like written in
Just plain pencil or something
Obviously the color page had to be in color, but I tried to make the whole thing a little bit more colorful too. The next
Page that I have in here is picture of the human face with a few different words for
you know
Facial organs. I'm not the best artist
but
It's that's not really important
It's as long as you're able to understand. I'll probably do another
picture of human body too that can get like feet legs you know arms
torso
Well, probably not torso. That's not really as important of a word.
I have a few pages in here about a house so outside of the house we got
The door window roof. I put a few different types of rooms in here kitchen bedroom bed
Toilet that's gonna be important
I should probably... now that I think about it, I should probably also try to put a few like
Predetermined phrases in here as well like where is the restroom. You know
I can't think of any other phrases up the top of my head, but where is the restroom would be a really useful one.
Here I have some numbers and
I really wanted to do this like I said I wanted to do it without using English words
So I didn't want to translate so what I did here for numbers was I put
One, and I did that one time and then you know for each consecutive number
I just made one more so that I would be able to tell and I only did one to five because
At least for now I don't want to
You can usually get away
without using super complex numbers right?
I think it's better to keep things simple
Like if I really have to say 15 for whatever reason then I'll just say ten and five
But then so I have one through five down here then down here. I have ten
One hundred and a thousand
So I don't know we'll see how this works we'll see if this
actually, helps me remember those numbers anymore I
Have a few different adjectives in here. I'm still working on this notebook. So I'll probably add a few more
But we have big little we have a lot a few
Happy sad
You know I'll probably add good or bad or something like that but
couldn't really think of any way to draw that. So there is definitely one
Drawback to using pictures instead of
instead of English words
I got a few words in here about nature
sun, sky
Tree, grass, oh this is... so I'm... just like I said, I'm still working on this. This is a
This is vocabulary words from
a Romanian song that I like
So I haven't I
Haven't like actually drawn gone through and drawn... I don't know if I'm gonna draw pictures for these yet or not
I don't know. We'll see.
Some of them might be kind of hard to draw pictures of and I don't even remember
You know, I don't remember what most of these are right now
So I can't talk a whole lot about them, but... actually I don't know
I don't really know what I was going for here. Maybe I'll try to draw some pictures for each one of these and then
And
Use that to help learn the song. Either that or
I'll just I'll just listen to the song while looking at this page, and then think oh yeah, I remember that word
Yeah, I noticed that word. I noticed that word. I don't know. We'll see. Like I said this is an experiment
I don't know if it's necessarily gonna work great. On this next page, and I think this is my last one
Yeah in this next page. I started writing
Words that are specific to me. Words that actually might come up in my personal
conversations with Romanian people
and I talked about this a lot and in past videos so
the problem that I see with a lot of
Prefabricated
language courses language books
Duolingo courses all that kind of stuff is that they teach you a lot of words that are irrelevant to you
like you know
You're gonna... You'll probably in your language course... If you were to take a romanian course
At college.. if they have one at your university
They're probably not gonna teach you
everything
That's just specific to you. You'll do a section on
careers and jobs and stuff, and they'lll probably teach you lawyer,
doctor, teacher,
you know
a few these main ones, but if you're not a lawyer a doctor a teacher
you know if you're a
Photojournalist, you're not gonna learn that word
But this is a huge hole on your language learning because your job is a big part of who you are, right?
And that's stuff that's gonna come up in conversations, so I like to personalize my vocabulary lists.
I don't just learn the vocabulary that they teach you at school or in the book
I make my own lists, which is really what this whole thing is
Obviously, I'm at the very early stages of learning Romanian
So I have to learn some of these very
basic
Generic words, but I also want to learn things about myself. Learn how to say things about myself, so I have... you know
United States of America
One thing about me is I really like learning languages so here
I have the word for languages, and and then I have you know the words for French Spanish English
Esperanto I have...
I believe this says I want to learn Romanian so oh
And also another reason that I wanted to make this video is
if you happen to speak Romanian
And you're watching this, I would really appreciate if you
Noticed any errors. I have in this book like you know
I think this is the word for head and that's the word for a face. I just looked these all up on wordreference.com
But if I like got these backwards or if I you know if I used a word that might technically be the right term but
People don't really use it anymore or anything along those lines
Please let me know because I don't want to go to Romania and be using the wrong words all the time
Um so
Yeah, I guess you know um that's basically everything I have in this book so far. I was thinking about
You know maybe doing a few pages on like a few of the most common verbs
like maybe I'll draw a picture of a guy walking and then
I don't know. I don't know really how I would draw pictures of all the you can't draw pictures of all the different
verb conjugations and everything
But maybe I could do some charts or something in here and so yeah
I'm just kind of did to use this technique see if it works and
oh, another thing that I might be able to use this for is
You know while I'm actually in Romania
If I you know
Can't... if I can't remember a word now probably I'll bring this book with me you know
I'll just put it in my little bag my backpack or whatever wherever I go
If I want to say something and I can't remember a word
I think this is gonna be more useful than a dictionary in some ways because
If I read through this several times
I'm gonna remember all I might not remember all the
pronunciations of all the words in here
But I'm gonna remember all the words that at least are in the book and I'll remember where to find them
So you know if I if I think to myself oh gosh, I know that I have the word blue
in this notebook
But I just can't remember the word right now. I'll just pull it out and look
I know exactly where to go to find the word blue right or eyes or
Or anything like that
And I don't know how useful that'll be like when you're in a conversation
Normally you're not gonna stop your conversation to
Pull out a book and look up the definition of a word
And if you were to do anything you would like I would just like point to my eye
rather than using the word, you know rather than pulling this out and
Finding the exact word for eye. You know you can get away with a lot of sign language and stuff
So I don't know like if that will be a big factor and this or not
But at least I'll have that option if I want to. Because sometimes you know maybe it will help because sometimes
I want to prepare what I'm going to say before I enter into a conversation with someone so in that case you know
That's not taking time out of a conversation to look up a word in in my dictionary that is
Me preparing beforehand when I actually do have time to look up those words
So that might be useful and the other thing... the other problem, the issue that I foresee with using this is I
Like to I really like to use spaced repetition, and I like learning words and context
So I don't know for sure that just like just reading through this book unless I were to read through this every night
I don't know for sure that these are actually gonna help me
Memorize these words just by reading them
But maybe they will I mean I think it'll for sure help
But that might be more of supplement to my other memorization techniques
But either way like it didn't take me very long to
Draw it like I maybe spent 20 minutes
drawing all these pictures and everything so I think is at least a worthwhile experiment and
Like I said, this is an experiment so maybe I'll find a way to refine this technique a little bit more um
If you like I said if you guys have any suggestions be sure to let me know
If you guys have done anything like this that was really useful to you
Let me know and um worst case scenario if it's not a really useful technique then
Not a big deal, I just won't do it anymore, right?
and you know I've said this before but on this channel pretty much all of the advice that I give all the tips that I
give
Are given with that attitude
Right? I'm not here trying to tell you the right or wrong way to learn languages
I am very much on this journey as well
I'm trying to figure out still some of the best
Ways, but I'm never gonna learn
I'm never gonna find those best ways of learning languages unless I try new things so that's what I'm doing here
And so I guess that's all I really have for this video
Be sure to let me know if you have any any comments or anything to add
And if not then I'll see you guys next week, so thanks for watching the video