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we're going to talk about how to learn
english on your commute i will give you
some ideas for your studies that you can
use on your way to work or on your way
to school and of course on the way home
as well so today will be just some
steady ideas some methods that you can
consider i'm going to cover some ideas
whether you go by bus or by train or you
drive a car
or even if you work from home maybe just
a couple of ideas to consider to start
and end your day so we're going to cover
reading and writing and speaking and
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okie dokie let's get started so first i
want to talk about uh some listening and
some speaking ideas uh for
maybe those of you who drive a car or
you have some kind of private space
where you can practice on your way to
and from work
so first idea first study idea is to
listen to
and repeat after
audio lessons audio lessons so for those
of you who have an account on our
website at englishclass101
uh you can
download and listen to our audio lessons
they're about 10 or 15 minutes long some
are a little bit shorter some a bit
longer
so if you
have this kind of private space where
you can actually repeat like you're in
the privacy of private space in your own
car or maybe like in your house in the
morning
you can actually repeat after the
lessons if you don't have a private
space uh maybe
you can just listen to the audio lessons
so some thoughts about this
is first
choose a lesson that's focused on a key
expression or a specific target so when
you're choosing like which audio lesson
to study during your commute maybe it's
better to choose a lesson that's focused
on something like this likes some ideas
might be how to introduce yourself so
how to say like my name is and so on or
how to order at a restaurant
or how to talk about your hobbies these
are just a few ideas
the reason i would suggest uh these
kinds of lessons are because if you're
especially if you're driving uh it's
really important to focus on the road
right so you want to make sure you can
easily listen and repeat the information
studying grammar trying to think about
grammar might be a little bit difficult
to do so try to choose a specific target
for the lesson like you're trying to you
have a specific
expression you're practicing or you have
like a specific uh phrase or question
that you're practicing
so choose a lesson that's focused on a
key expression
another idea is if your commute
is 20 plus minutes so 20 plus meaning 20
or more minutes
then you can think about this idea
do one new lesson so you have a new
lesson on your way like like your first
lesson is a new lesson so a lesson you
have not studied before
and then you do a review so you review
like the previous days lesson or you
review an old lesson something like that
so if you if you have this time you can
give yourself the opportunity to learn
something new like a new expression a
new a new phrase a new question and you
have the opportunity to review something
from a previous study session
so this can be good if you have a longer
commute or if you just have a little bit
more time on your way to work or school
or of course on the way home as well
okay
and then the last point here is just
remember to review on your way home so
whatever lesson you listened to in the
morning consider listening to that
lesson again on your way home so like
eight hours nine hours later ten hours
later depending on your schedule
so uh this is something you can do as i
said of course you can listen to it just
listen to the lesson uh if you're on
like a train or a bus and there are
other people around but if you're in a
car you can actually speak like repeat
after the native speaker repeat after
the person
who's talking
in the lesson so some ideas uh you can
check out we have lessons we have audio
lessons on our website of course so
please have a look at those uh they are
if you don't know at englishclass101.com
we do have audio lessons lots and lots
of audio lessons there so please check
those out some other ideas
especially for like intermediate or
advanced learners some listening ideas
are english news english news especially
english news for learners so if you
google just english news for learners or
english for learners i'm sorry english
news sites for learners you can find
some resources online
where people will share the news but
they use a specific english a specific
type of english
for learners for people who are studying
so they'll introduce key vocabulary
points uh idioms and other expressions
finally
another cool idea is podcasts podcasts
if you don't know what a podcast is a
podcast is kind of like a radio show
but a podcast is made like by individual
people so you can choose a topic that's
interesting to you
and find a show about that so you can do
this like with your phone like just with
your smartphone
if you have a smartphone or even if you
don't have a smartphone
you can
search for podcasts on like apple
podcasts or spotify or other podcast
libraries directories and you can find a
topic that suits your interest
so if you have maybe if you have a
podcast that you like you can send it in
the chat so other people can find it so
if you have a recommendation for
something you like to listen to you can
check that out and oftentimes podcasts
have notes there are like notes about
each episode of the podcast so you can
check uh maybe some of the key
information in written form there so
that's another resource that you can
consider
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during your commute how to learn english
or other languages on your commute so
i've talked about learning with audio
listening to an audio lesson or like to
news into podcasts and if you can
repeating after the native speakers so
let's go to part two then part two
uh part two
excuse me is
to use an app or a site to study
vocabulary words so app uh this word app
app app means application a smartphone
application so you can use an app or a
website
some tool that you prefer to use to
study vocabulary words this is one that
i did for a couple years uh in the
morning and at night that's true i had
an app i studied japanese on my way to
work and on my way home from work 15
minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in
the evening because i knew vocabulary
was my weak point and this was so
helpful for me i learned new words every
day and i could use them at work every
day too
so
this was personally really really
helpful for me every day some ideas uh
i've talked about this app anki a-n-k-i
anki is a free
uh flash card app a fleet free flash
card and like a vocabulary basically a
study tool so you can uh choose i'll
talk about in a moment you can choose
like a group of words
and you can study them inside anki this
free tool
so when you use anki uh you can choose
like when you see a word appear in the
app you can say yes i know this word or
i don't really know this word or i
totally don't know this word and
according to your answer the software
will remember
uh your like your level of uh like
ability to identify that word so it will
show you the word again at a later time
according to your answers so that's cool
also of course uh if you
don't know about our website we do have
stuff on our website too and english
class 101 some of the features are free
so you don't have to have a paid account
to get access to some of these the free
things that we have there are vocabulary
lists so if you go to the website and
you click on vocabulary in the menu you
can choose vocabulary lists vocabulary
lists so you can access the vocabulary
lists for free and you can access the
100 core words list for free too so if
you do that you'll see there's a picture
for the vocabulary word or the
expression
and there's also audio so you can listen
to that as well so these are a couple of
ideas for places to study uh places to
get vocabulary lists to study and how to
study those
so
what you can do is when you uh when you
are deciding what to study what app or
what site to use
choose a list of words or a list of
phrases or a deck so dec it comes from
like a deck of cards the word we use in
english is uh dec d-e-c-k so that means
one set a group of playing cards so uh
anki this software i talked about they
use what's called dex it's like a group
of vocabulary words or a group of
phrases
but in other software like we have
vocabulary lists so choose a list or
choose a deck of words that you want to
study
and
you can choose from lists already
available so for example we already have
a lot of vocabulary lists prepared that
you can choose from or you can make your
own list so if you want to make your own
list yes it can take some time but you
also have that ability to make your own
list for something and create your own
kind of deck or your own group of words
in your vocabulary study app
okay
uh i don't see
specific questions to today's lesson so
let's continue on uh to this point
i mentioned already study on your way to
and from work and school so i mentioned
it earlier but when i was studying
vocabulary like really focusing on
studying vocabulary
i would uh study in the morning i had an
app in my case i was using a japanese
study app
i studied in the morning like as soon as
i got on my subway my subway train
in the morning i started and then when i
arrived at my work like my station i
stopped and that was about 15 minutes in
the morning i did the same thing on my
way home at night so
it seems like a short time but in one
day that's 30 minutes of study and over
the course of a week and over the course
of months that's a lot actually so this
was this strategy was super helpful for
me to build my vocabulary so
i really really like this i can
recommend this for improving your
vocabulary someone uh mean han said
write down myself yeah if you if you can
like that's great to practice your
writing too to write the words as well i
think that's great i guess it depends a
little on what you want to focus on if
you want to just get new vocabulary in
your head
you can use just an app if you want to
practice the vocabulary and practice
reading and writing with the vocabulary
sure that sounds great too
okay
oscar says what does commute mean ah
commute commute means uh your travel to
and from work or school so
every day
many people have a commute to work or a
commute to school so commute commute
i'll write it on the board your commute
means
travel
to and from
work or school or other
other obligations maybe
so travel to and from work and school is
your commute
uh other
questions
yes someone says how do i improve my
english when commuting that is today's
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couple more
ideas and in this section especially for
number four here i hope that you can
share a few ideas with everyone too
the first or rather the third
the third idea for your commute is to
read news sites in english to practice
your reading skills so i know i know i
do this all the time like i open twitter
and i check the news but i check like
english news like my native language
news so a thing to consider
is just to shift your thinking and start
trying to read news articles
in english in your case if you're
learning english so sometimes i do this
i'll try to read focus and read in
japanese
something so that's really helpful for
me some ideas if you want to look for
something that you can read you can try
uh like the bbc you could try the new
york times you could try cnn uh these
are all like online they have online
news articles
i put the bbc here first because the bbc
has a program specifically for english
learners so you can find like video news
and you can find written news articles
that have english
specifically for people who are learning
so they share key words
they talk about
special idioms uh they talk about
special expressions uh a thing to
consider though the bbc is british
english so the bbc will sound very
different from me for example they have
a different accent there but you can
read the articles for sure but just keep
in mind pronunciation
and some expressions are a little bit
different from american english
new york times is an american
publication as is cnn these are both
american publications maybe if you if
anybody out there has something that
they like as well
they can suggest it and i will write it
here
uh
which one do you recommend for beginners
for beginners i would recommend you do a
google search uh i mentioned it in topic
in point number one today but if you do
uh english google search this english
news
for learners english news for learners
there are a few
actually quite a few a lot
there are a lot of services that provide
news articles at different levels so
check around to find something that
suits your level there are many
different sites you can check those out
see which is maybe the best for you so i
recommend a google search for this
google english news for learners you can
find a list of
publications of other services that have
this so i i would suggest
you try this and find something that's
good for you
someone says for news julian says news
in levels okay news in levels sounds
like a good one
uh other
specific
questions i don't see any yet
hello from minnesota facebook okay so
let's continue on then uh if you have
another suggestion uh send it in the
chat i'll try to write it here if i
catch it
uh i want to
conclude uh my last idea or really my
last tip is to get creative
with your studies so
these are of course like tips one two
and three today are fairly
straightforward things that you can do
but i would encourage you to get
creative with how you study and how you
practice and again not just listening to
things not just reading things but
working on producing things so
these are tips that you can use if
you're on a train or a bus or a subway
something you don't have to drive right
you can read or you can type in an app
or something
some other ideas
you can make a social media post
so a great example of this i met a
person many years ago actually i was so
impressed
he uh he was a
yeah he was studying english he lived in
i think the uk for maybe two or three
years and came back to his home country
but he wanted to continue uh using
english so he had a one-hour commute to
and from work every day this is a true
story and he's created what he called uh
an on the way album post
so
for his everyday english study practice
he listened to an album like uh like a
60 minute about one hour so music he
listened to it and then he wrote a
social media post like a review
about the album so he talked about each
song on the album he talked about the
history of the album so he was listening
to new music which was his hobby and he
was using english so he made a bilingual
social media post every single day five
days a week
on his commute so that to me that was
amazing like he said it was really hard
actually really really hard to do but i
thought that was such a creative a
creative way
to combine his hobbies and his studies
so that's one idea make a social media
post i like to do this too actually when
i post on social media i try to do it
bilingually i try to write my social
media posts in english and in japanese
that's one way for me to study
uh others um i'm looking for your
questions i don't see other questions
yet so a couple more ideas
uh write in an english only journal
right in an english-only journal this
can be on your phone it can be a
physical journal it can be something
that you type
like on wordpress or another journal
software
so write in an english-only journal
that's another way to create you're
using vocabulary that you're learning
maybe you can write about a recent news
story something like that or you can use
something that you heard in an audio
lesson so this is another idea uh you
can do again on your commute
if you're not driving a car so uh write
in an english only journal
that's something else you can do uh and
another idea
read an english-only twitter feed so
i've seen a lot of people uh i've seen
some some people have followed me on
twitter that's the they make an english
study account i've seen this on twitter
actually a couple on instagram too
they make english only or
like accounts specifically for their
studies so you can open that twitter
feed and check only things in english so
these are a couple of different ideas uh
for kind of more creatively using
your language skills in developing your
language skills
um all right some other things variola
says can you tell me about audio please
i talked about audio lessons in point
number one so if you missed it you can
check out some ideas for uh studying
with audio lessons this is being
recorded so when we finish you can go
back and check out point number one
uh yeah someone else says how do i
improve my listening please check point
number one from today's lesson i think
that's uh good for uh listening specific
tips
uh how to take notes fast while
listening well why why do you need to
take notes fast you can take notes and
pause and take notes and pause as well
like it's it's okay to go at your own
pace it's okay to do that
uh some other and if you have other
ideas for your studies yeah we'll
include i'll include them here so please
feel free to send something along
okay says how about reading and
listening to us president's speeches
um it's something you can do sure but
just keep in mind speeches are very
different from the way that we speak in
everyday life so you might get some
interesting vocabulary you might learn
some specific vocabulary for politics
and for government
but just keep in mind that it's
different from the way that people talk
in everyday english so
i mean you can learn something of course
someone says can i learn using chat
roulette um i really don't know i would
suggest maybe not using chat roulette
like i feel like it's better to do
something to approach your studies to
study with some kind of material you've
prepared or like you can
kind of guess a little bit what what the
other person is going to say
so
i don't know if chat roulette is the
best the best way to study
could be i don't know i have not used it
so i can't say
uh other ideas other ideas uh someone
says write go slowly i can't write this
video is being recorded you can watch it
back again
uh other points some people say i can't
understand songs well some ideas if you
want to use music if you want to use
music i'll include that here listen to
music if you want to
include music in your studies i would
suggest and if you can't understand the
songs google the lyrics look for the
lyrics of the songs that's what i did
when i first started studying japanese i
couldn't understand the music i had no
idea what they were saying so i googled
it and i had to find it in like english
characters and then i had to study the
grammar and then i had to study
vocabulary so many different things so
if you can understand the songs google
the lyrics and then study the lyrics
line by line that is exactly what i did
when i first started that's a true story
that is exactly what i did so that was
my strategy to understand songs but also
keep in mind not all songs in english
use correct grammar sometimes we change
the lyrics of the songs or we change the
way we say words to fit the song so
please keep that in mind music in
english is not perfect english or is not
what should i say music in english is
not textbook english please keep that in
mind
other points i
don't see any oh masaya
on facebook says watching on youtube
with subtitles is very useful ah that's
a great idea i'll put that in number
four so watch youtube watch youtube
uh videos
with subtitles nice point
great of course we have many
of course we have many many youtube
videos with subtitles so you can please
watch our videos we would be very happy
uh if you watched our videos yes thanks
mafia great tip great tip why do words
in english have ten meanings not always
do they have ten meanings many words in
many languages have many different
meanings so it's up to it depends on the
word it depends on the word
uh okay someone says in discord i talk
every day with native people ah yeah
discord that's another one so i have not
used discord myself but to my
understanding you can make communities
have you used discord yes you can make
communities you can make communities
with uh maybe people who play the same
video game as you or people who have the
same hobby or interest as you so that's
another good one all right all right
is did they say discord groups discord
communities i don't know the word they
use on discord so
discord chats okay
discord chats that's a nice idea nice
one okay
um
other points yeah great ideas everybody
i like that uh thiago also says watch
movies with subtitles yes so i have
youtube yeah but watching movies with
subtitles can be helpful also very nice
ideas
all right oh my i am late
sorry
so thank you for your ideas everyone
sorry i got excited about the chat so
sorry about that i have to finish
unfortunately but these are some ideas
you can use for learning during your
commute so on your way to or on your way
from home from uh school or work
so i hope that you found some ideas some
new things you can do with just 10 or 15
minutes in your day it adds up you can
do a lot of things over time
so we'll finish there for today but we
will of course be back next week next
week's topic is yes how to talk about
your work with present perfect tense
everybody always wants to practice
present perfect tense so next week i'm
going to focus on talking about your
work or your studies with present
perfect tense if you don't know present
perfect tense present perfect is like
that i have been i have done i have
worked and so on next week i probably
won't talk a lot about present perfect
continuous but maybe we'll see so join
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