If you're studying languages and struggling with vocabulary and most importantly if you're studying
any of the languages that you can see on the screen now including languages like Chinese
and French and Spanish and English and polish etc then you're going to find the app that I'm going
to show you super useful what I love about this app is that it gives you the sentences and the
vocabulary in context with loads and loads of examples and it gives you the audio and
it includes a video as well it's super fast super easy to use and what I'm going to do is I'm going
to show you the technique that I've been using both to study polish and French using this app
I really hope you like the video and if you do please like it please share it particularly
if you're a teacher please share it with other teachers but this is a great app also for students
and of course love to know your comments please leave your comments in the comment section and
of course join me on my YouTube channel let's get started so I often work with YouTube videos when
I'm studying languages and I always search for videos that have got subtitles and later on I'll
show you how you can actually do that but I've got here a video that I've searched for that's got
subtitles and if you get a video with subtitles what you can do is you can click over here and
open up the transcript now let's imagine that there's a word in the transcript that you want
to learn and in this example I've got this word here Najlepszego what I can do is I can simply
come up to the top here and just copy that word so I'm just going to copy the word Najlepszego
copy that and watch this I'm now going to put that word into this app that I want to show you
okay so we're on the app now as you can see on the screen youglish and if I click here you'll
notice you've got loads and loads of languages but we're going to do this one in polish I'm going to
choose polish and all I need to do now is paste in that word that I selected and I click on say it
and what's going to happen is it's now going to bring up many examples of that word being used
in context I can see the video here I can see the subtitles underneath and I can see that
word being used the word that I'm looking at here is Najlepszego now let me just show you
this because it's absolutely fantastic the way it works I'm going to play that video
okay so that's one example but then I can click here it's going to give me another example
and if I want to listen to more examples of the word Najlepszego I can click
documentation
okay and I can carry on
so I love this idea that we can take a word put it into the app and then see loads of video based
examples of how that word is used with the word in context and the subtitles of that particular video
provided now we can actually do a couple more things with this app as well one of the things
it does is it provides definitions but another thing that we can do is make better use of those
subtitles that are provided with each example now let me show you what I'm doing with the subtitles
and with the definitions so let's do an example in English I'm going to jump over to English I'm
going to imagine that I was studying and I come across the word accommodation which you always
spell wrong be careful it's double c double m all right I'm going to click on say it
it's going to bring up lots of examples let's just stop the video I mean lots of examples with that
words and I can start playing them straight away temporary accommodation it's not really a good
thing out okay let's try the next one etsy cross you can choose to stay in accommodation on site
okay let's do one more science park to include teaching and research facilities as well as
student accommodation okay now another thing that you can do though is if you scroll down whatever
sentence you're looking at the last sentence that sentence will be available here and you can click
on a particular word now if i just go back once I'm going to jump back to a previous one press on
the pause button come down so it's going to take this sentence whatever the current sentence is
you can scroll down here and you can click on any of the words to get a definition so I'm going to
click on the uh definition for accommodation I can click here and it's going to give me a definition
of that word as well I'm going to close that down and come down below and also it's going to do what
we call near by word so if you want to improve the pronunciation of accommodation by saying
one of the nearby words below okay so here for example let's just take an example of
that or I'll take the word accomplishments and I can click on that and now it's going to give
me examples of the word accomplishments and in that way I can distinguish between how we say
accommodation and how we say accomplishments there's even more to this technology I'm gonna
leave it there but I'm gonna just finish by showing you one thing a lot of people are
very interested in this technique how i study on youtube and how i look for videos with subtitles
and if you are interested in that I'm going to quickly show you how I do that now another thing
that you can do that's really interesting and I've just started to work with this I'm
actually discovering this tool and more and more about it is that you can save your sentences so if
any sentence that's really interesting you want to keep it you can save it by just clicking on this
button here once you've saved your sentences when you want to see them you can come up to my content
and you'll see now that I began now to save the sentences now I do think that you need to log in
to have that availability I've actually created an account it's completely free so there's no problem
there and I presume obviously that you need to log on to be able to access your sentences now another
thing is and I absolutely love this I can actually play those sentences straight from here watch this
uh
absolutely fantastic what a great tool just a super quick piece of publicity and then we'll
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in language teaching let's get back to the video there are some amazing tricks that you can do on
YouTube especially if you're a language learner I'm going to highlight a couple of them now
first of all when we search for videos we can search for videos that have got subtitles but
you must remember there are actually three ways that subtitles go into videos in YouTube firstly
sometimes they're embedded into the video so when whoever made the video put the subtitles into
the video they're actually part of the video the second way is that after uploading a video you add
the video transcript and that is the most useful way for language learning because we can access
that video transcript and work with it the third way is that YouTube will automatically generate
the video transcript now the problem there of course is that YouTube makes a few mistakes
so be aware that there are three different types of subtitles that you will find in a YouTube video
now what I'm going to do is show you how to search for videos that have only got subtitles and then
how you can use those subtitles so the first thing I'm going to do is just do an example in English
I'm going to write shopping in English okay and that's going to bring up loads of different videos
but what I can do after that is that if I want to I can then click on these filters
I could choose for example to have videos that are only 4 to 20 minutes long
and if I want to I could also click on the filters and choose for example videos that have only got
subtitles so now we've got videos that are between 4 and 20 minutes and I've got subtitles various
videos come up on the screen I'll click on this one here I can see straight away
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so be sure to hit that subscribe so now we can see that this video comes up onto the screen and
it's got subtitles and if I click over here then I can actually open up those subtitles
now the interesting thing as well is that if I play the video I can actually
click and jump to any part of the video by using the the uh subtitles here on the right hand side
so if I click here button and the bell down below that you don't miss jump to that part of the video
so that's really really useful now another little thing is you can toggle on and off
the time stamps and i generally don't like the timestamp so turn them off and that way
it's much easier when you need to for example select a sentence or a few sentences that you
want to look up or even if you want to look up an individual word so if you've got for example
the word expressions here you can just select that word and copy it so that is one of the most useful
things about working with YouTube now another little thing I'll just quickly point out to you
I often use very fast videos particularly when I'm learning French because I like to work with kind
of native based content and one of the things I can do if I'm working with something that's
particularly difficult is that I can simply click here and slow it down slightly and I often do that
when I'm listening to the news in French okay really hope you like that video please come over
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