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speaking in minutes okay today's topic is technology meets
technique the 7 tested timeless ways to learn a language what's the best way to
learn a language when you first started learning the language you probably
thought about this there are a ton of study methods but do they all work and
are they worth your time in today's episode you're going to learn number 1
the 7 tested learning techniques and number 2 the technologies that you can
use for each one but first listen up here are this month's new lessons and
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let's jump into today's topic technology meets techniques the 7 tested timeless
ways to learn a language so for each of the 7 you get a learning technique and
the technology this technology will help you learn how to apply the technique
these learning methods and tools will help you get fluent faster guaranteed
alright the first learning technique here is having talking points and the
technology for it vocabulary lists so one big problem most
beginners have is you run out of things to say your vocabulary is limited you
can't talk about your interests and you can't last long in a conversation and
the solution talking points or topics to talk about like whether food or hobbies
just imagine a conversation you start with greetings you move on to what you
did over the weekend weekend that's one talking point you went to a
restaurant that's another talking point you can explore if you know all the
words and phrases for these points you can speak more of the language so how do
you build a list of talking points use our free vocab lists our vocab lists
give you all of the relevant words and phrases for specific topics sports
travel food hobbies holidays daily routines if you want to talk about food
pull up the relevant vocab lists and you'll quickly learn all the necessary
words phrases and questions now you can use food as a talking point in a
conversation then you can jump over to weather or sports the more talking
points you have the more you'll be able to speak number 2 shadowing a powerful
way to speak more of the language the technology here is the line by line
dialogue shadowing is simply repeating what you hear you can apply this
technique with any resource that has audio but if you're using our lessons
listen to a lesson dialogue read along and try to read out loud and shadow the
native speaker this is a proven technique that will seriously improve
your speaking and the line-by-line dialogue tool makes it easy for you to
listen and shadow one line at a time this way you're not overwhelmed by a
fast native level conversation okay technique number three building your own
language profile the technology you'll want for this is the word bank first
what's a language profile a language profile is your personal list of words
and phrases that are relevant to you what do I mean by that let's say you're
20 years old you'll want to talk about school your life your goals your weekend
plans you'll want to learn slang and if you're 40 you don't want to talk about
school right you may want to talk about your kids your work and vacations so a
language learning profile is a list of words and phrases relevant to you your
age where you're from your culture your interests and your passions if you're
passionate about baseball then your profile would have a list of words and
phrases about the sport so how do you build a profile if you're using our site
use the word bank this is your personal collection of words when you come across
new words or phrases in our lessons or vocab lists you can save them to the
word bank and the result is you have a collection of words and phrases that
match your interests and lifestyle your language learning profile number four
spaced repetition learning a great way to learn new words fast the technology
that helps you apply this method is flashcards
but first what spaced repetition learning imagine you're sitting in front
of a teacher they're quizzing you on vocabulary by showing you flashcards
with the word on the front and the answer on the back if you don't know a
word you'll see it again today and tomorrow and again and again until you
get it right but if you get it right you'll see it maybe in four days then
seven days then in 14 days that's how spaced repetition works you review words
over a spaced amount of time so you never forget them this is a powerful
method for memorizing new vocab and phrases but you don't have to sort words
and force yourself to review at later dates that's where the technology comes
in the flashcards if you're using our website just head over to our space
repetition of flashcards to take advantage of this learning method
the fifth technique focus on the high frequency words or the most common words
first the technology the mm core word lists a list of the mm must know words
and phrases so why is this technique powerful well the fact is there are tons
of words out there that you don't need to know if you're a beginner you need to
learn hello and how are you and not random words like aardvark and cement
and with the mm core word list you get 2,000 carefully selected words and
phrases broken down by category and this is more than enough for conversational
fluency you can learn the top 100 words first then the top 200 300 and so on
until you know them all remember you can use flashcards or the word bank to study
them number six learning with timely relevant and
cultural lessons the technology the free daily dose of language app for the
iPhone iPad and Android let's say today is a holiday like Valentine's Day or
something seasonal like the start of spring something everyone knows and
talks about can you talk about it in your target language the truth is most
learners can't they're not getting timely relevant lessons from their
textbooks or apps but with a daily dose of language app you get timely lessons
holiday lessons and cultural lessons to improve your language and if you can
talk to a native speaker about a holiday or a cultural point you're making some
serious language progress what makes this tools so powerful is
that it also keeps you on track with daily reminders you can download our
daily dose of language app for free on the site or search for it on the App
Store or Google Play all right the 7th technique is getting
feedback from a native the technology one-on-one learning with your Premium
Plus teacher so without a doubt getting feedback and corrections is the best
language practice you can get if you have a Premium Plus plan you can send
questions have casual exchanges or just practice with your teacher
they'll send corrections and feedback so that you're always improving your
teacher will also send you a assignments and they'll hold you
accountable you can also record yourself and your teacher will do a voice
analysis they'll tell you just how close you are to a native speaker and how to
improve and that's it I'll write everyone in the last monthly review we
asked you to submit a video or audio file of yourself speaking the language
introducing yourself in the language so thank you to all of you that sent in
submissions you've all received a premium plus subscription as a reward
now let's take a look at some of the videos ok so I am about to check out the
audio files that you have all sent to us for this month so I'm very excited to
have a listen let's begin
hey Alicia how are you doing misery I am from India have been
learning English since one year with the help of your YouTube channel English
calm I am learning English to advance my career to improve my communication
skills and to get better job opportunities learning English is very
easy and fun and I learn English through your YouTube channel watching movies TV
series and etc reading books and they are helping me to improve my English and
thank you teacher once again for improve my English with your YouTube challenges
cosmonaut 1.com cool thanks very much for this message that sounds like a good
idea using lots of media to help you with your studies I think that's good
because you pick up lots of really natural expressions that way so thank
you so much for sending this that's really cool and good luck with your
continued studies that's awesome okay I'm gonna go to the next one lay
hello others show how are you doing I hope you're doing great my name is Rajan
I'm from Columbia Columbia I think I've been studying English for almost two
years and I've been watching your video lessons for five or six months months
maybe yeah something like that and I'm just reading this because I'm
really into like we just you know I love language again I want to learn many
languages and also and because I want to start just letting translation one of my
long-term goals is like to leave and study in Canada so I really like to
improve my English right I focus a lot in pronunciation and in comprehension
you know because I think it's really hard to understand a series or a TV show
or anything right I think you stop I think
so hard but anyway I just kept trying in China and yeah I want to thank you
because your channel is amazing yes it's actually amazing I love your lessons
you're really you're always trying to keep us motivated and that's amazing you
always teach allies no strategies to keep going and going so thank you so
much I hope everyone loved you listen aside as I do and thank you so much
awesome buddy that was super nice that's really interesting message I think so
far that's the first person who's mentioned wanting to study translation
in the future and just having a general interest in learning languages that's
really really cool and thanks so much for the feedback about our videos and
the stuff that we make so I'm really happy to hear that it's motivating and
it's useful so thank you so much for sending this audio file that was awesome
okay I'm gonna go to the next one now
hello Alicia hello English class one one team my name is aroma from Indonesia I
am 22 years old and I am a programmer I really have to improve my grammar and
pronunciation because in September I'm going to build a web application and
there is some foreign people in the team so I hope we do a good communication and
there is no misunderstanding right Thank You Ali sure thank you in this class 101
TM good bye oh that's a really good point like
working in an international team so when you're using English as the common
language among like your team members it can be really important to make sure
like you're communicating clearly like I've been a part of an international
team like we have an international team here and it's really good to like check
in with each other a lot if you ever think there's a misunderstanding but
that's so cool but you're thinking like I really want to improve my grammar and
my pronunciation to avoid like any problems or miscommunications so that's
cool and good luck with that cool 22 and a programmer that's amazing
awesome thank you so much for this okay let's go to the next one hi Alicia I'm
Karthik from India actually I don't know how to start I do love to speak in
English but actually I can't because of my low confidence and fear about my
grammar mistakes but after watched your YouTube channel I lost my fear I can
easily speak with my colleagues through English with the help of your YouTube
videos and website so I give you a big thank you books and watching English
movies I know it won't be possible without English but I now I watched my
favorite movies in English as well as reading my louder books reading is one
of my biggest hobby but English reading is possible by you guys only thank you
everyone and I'm still learning cool that's
awesome so this person mentioned he was like kind of feeling low in the
confidence in the confidence area about his English speaking but wanted to
you know work on actually using it in his life and was able to do that like
partially through like watching our videos and checking things out with us
so I'm so happy to hear that and I think that's like really cool that you were
able to do that too so I hope other people who are worried about you know
their pronunciation or making mistakes I hope other people try to push past that
fear and practice too and this person said he really enjoyed books reading
books too so that's something I like as well so reading books in English now too
is possible that's awesome that was a really positive update thank you so much
for sending that very cool okay let's go to the next one
hello my name is hi Izzy I'm from Brazil hello and I'm longing to see because we
like it this language it is a global language in me sure that I get a good
level English I will have more opportunities of jobs and travels and I
love to make friends around the world in the use English to try to communicate
with others mm-hmm so this is a reason that I mean learn English cool
so she mentioned yeah like wanting to make friends around the world and just
having more opportunities as well I think those are some really big common
themes but yeah that was really cool so I hope that you continue with your
studies that was easy to understand and you sounded very positive as well nice
thank you for sending this okay on to the next one
hello Alicia hi I am how much room isn't I'm 28 years old my dream is to speak
English fluently I am studying English in order to get a better job
you know more about American culture so I watch you all your videos on YouTube
thank you can follow you on facebook nice I want to thank you for your
efforts that you make to learn me the best way to master English Wow cool
thank you very much for watching our videos and for following our Facebook
page that's great I hope that you continue with your learning and I hope
that we can continue to make things that are useful for you and you mentioned
like your goal is to speak English fluently too so I hope that you can like
you know make really specific goals as well that can help you in achieving your
goal of getting a fluent in English someday so good luck with your continued
studies and thank you so much for sending this message that's awesome
okay onward
hi Alicia Howard I hope you're doing great
my name is Vlad and I'm from Ukraine I've been learning English for a few
years I'm studying because I want to live and
to work in the USA I also want to travel to the USA in the next year for a
vacation to improve my skills and have a goal for the next year to become fluent
in English so help me God I have an arrogant e-courses
for learning English so I think I'm making good progress thanks for your
videos bye that's super cool so he wants to go to the USA to improve his skills
but he says he's never taken like an official course to study English he's
been using our videos and I assume like using lots of different media resources
on the Internet to practice that's great you sound very confident and you have
like this clear goal to go to the States and it's a good luck with your improving
English goal for the next year I hope you have lots of good experiences and
you can use English in your travels a lot - that's awesome great so we had a
lot of super positive as always super positive and some very
confident sounding people with some great goals for this year so good luck
to everybody with your goals for the next year and thank you so so much for
sending us some audio files to listen to you this month thank you so which entry
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