Hi! Bob the Canadian here.
You probably noticed that there is no, no live stream tonight.
I’m off taking a little break.
I think a well-deserved break.
I’ve worked pretty hard since January, so I’m just taking an evening to relax, but
I couldn’t do that without making you guys a video because I know if there wasn’t something
to watch you guys would be a little bit disappointed.
So I thought I would just shoot a little video and kind of touch base, kind of followup from
the video that I did in January.
If you look up here you’ll see a link to that where I talked about New Year’s Resolutions
and I was just wondering if you guys set a New Years Resolution and whether you’re
doing a good job following up on it.
Are you reading in English every day?
Did you set a goal to read a certain number of words or pages in English each day?
And are you hitting that goal?
Cause as you know I highly recommend reading.
Reading is extremely important in English.
It really, really helps to build your vocabulary and again remember, when you read you read
at your own speed.
That’s what makes reading really, really cool.
When you read, you can read as slow as you need to so that you can understand what you
are reading.
Are you writing every day?
I know some of you leave comments below, and that’s part of your New Year’s Resolution,
is to write a little bit every day.
Some of you leave comments.
Some of you maybe have English penpals who you can send a little email to and they help
you with your English.
But, hopefully you are writing every day.
If you don’t have someone to write to you should at the very least be copying out things.
So maybe find a news article and just copy it out so take word for word and write it
onto a piece of paper to help you remember it.
So, hopefully you’re reading every day.
Hopefully you’re writing every day.
And then here’s the next one.
Hopefully you’re listening to some English every day.
I know a lot of you watch Youtube videos.
That’s one of the things that you do so that you are listening to English every day.
And that’s great.
Hopefully you are still doing that.
And hopefully you’ve found other English sources to listen to.
Hopefully you’ve found a few movies.
Hopefully you’ve found a few television shows to watch in English that are helping
you once again learn new vocabulary.
There’s a bird and an airplane flying by at the same time.
So that’s very cool.
So hopefully you’re listening.
And, the big one, hopefully you’ve found some really cool English music to listen to.
When you listen to music it’s a great way to learn English because you’re a lot more
willing to listen to music over and over again than you are to watch a television show over
and over again, or a Youtube video.
I think max you might watch a Youtube video two times, but you might listen to music up
to a hundred times.
So hopefully you found some music to listen to.
So hopefully you’re reading, writing, listening, and now here’s the big one.
Hopefully you’re speaking English.
Hopefully you’re finding time every day to speak English.
Hopefully you’ve found a way to speak English with someone, if not, hopefully you’re at
least reading out loud.
So reading out loud is a great way to practice your speaking as well.
So just find something that you can read and read it out loud.
You can also practice shadowing someone.
So watch a Youtube video, pause the Youtube video every few seconds and then repeat what
the person has been saying.
And in some ways you can even combine a lot of the techniques, right, you can have the
subtitles on, you can read what the person has said, you can listen to them say what
they’re saying, and then you can read out loud, or say out loud, the words that they
were just talking about.
So, hopefully you’re doing all four of those,and there’s a fifth one by the way, but hopefully
you’re reading every day.
Hopefully you’re your writing every day.
Hopefully you’re listening to someone, something, someone or something in English every day.
And, hopefully you’re taking some time to speak every day.
I really hope that you’re finding a way to do that.
The last one is, hopefully you’re learning a lot of vocabulary every day.
So you can learn vocabulary by reading.
You can learn vocabulary in a lot of ways, but I like to seperate vocabulary out from
the other four and pick a certain number of words that you’re going to learn every day
and make sure that you are doing that.
Sorry I’ve, I’ve started using a new camera.
You might have noticed that the image quality is really good, but it’s kind of heavy to
hold it up here, so.
Anyways.
Hopefully you’re reading every day.
Writing every day.
Listening every day.
Speaking every day.
And learning some new vocabulary every day.
And I hope things are going really well for you.
Things for me at this halfway point, it’s almost six months, actually it is six months
isn’t it since January first?
I’m feeling good.
I’m still doing my live lessons on Friday mornings.
There’s still my short little one minute lessons every day, there’s a link up here
for you.
I’m still doing, usually a Saturday night live conversation and listening practice.
But this week you’re just getting a video.
And I’m still producing and putting out a new video every Tuesday.
I hope all of this is helping you learn English.
I’m Bob the Canadian.
Thanks for watching this video and I hope that you have a really good rest of your weekend.
I know I will be enjoying myself this Saturday night and I’ll see you next Tuesday with a new
video.
Next Friday with a live lesson.
By the way we did one this morning, there’s a link up there.
It was on Health Care and Medicine.
It was really, really good.
And I’ll see you next week Saturday with another live conversation lesson.
This is still a lot of fun for me.
Don’t forget there is a link in the description to my other channel where I do short one minute
videos every day.
But, Bob the Canadian here.
Have a great day.
It’s still fun teaching you English.
I hope you are still having fun learning it.