Do you want to know how to learn words in English withtotu translation? So watch this
masterclass, because I'm gonna be showing you a step-by-step process of how to do it
in English.
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Alright, why did I decide to make a video like this to give you a master class of how
to learn words in English?
I get a lot of feedback from you guys I read the e-mails that you guys send me. And many
times I see that you struggle with your native language and English,
and this is something that I work with my beginners, I teach my basic students how to
do this and intermediate students, advanced students. Because this works for any level.
If you are a beginner, you may be having problems to understand all of this class, but the process
works for any level.
I'm going to be showing you a process, a step-by-step process
of how to study vocabulary of how to learn new words in English.
So what do you need to know?
a four- step process
Okay, I'll be explaining each process in detail, but basically, what is this process all about?
Number one, you need a subject and a list of words
to learn new words you need to define the subject. It's easier to learn that way. And
I'm gonna be talking to you more about that. The second thing you're going to do is to
use Google, Google's gonna be your best friend in this process but not Google Translator.
All right
so I'm gonna be teaching you a very nice hack of using the words plus the word meaning,
and that's gonna help you find explanations in English, but I'm gonna show you in details
the next thing you are gonna do, you're gonna google images.
we're also gonna use Google Images to find meanings of words. This doesn't work for everything.
I'm gonna show you how to do it. And finally,
using YouTube to get explanations for new words expressions that you're studying
all of these things together, combined
will you help you stay in English study in English. And on top of that, the most important thing
learn new words
in English.
So moving on, "does it work? Yes, it works.
And during this master class, I'll be sharing you a little bit of my experience with this
practice pros and the cons because there are advantages and disadvantages as well, in this
process. And what do you need to do if you don't understand? Well, there's a spelling
mistake there. What if I don't understand or what do you need to do?
So let's get started. And hey, if you enjoy this lesson make sure to share with a friend
by sharing this video with someone you're helping the channel grow, but you're also helping
your friends become better English speakers.
okay,
moving on.
Well, let's focus on the first to step. Okay, let's practice this together, I'm gonna show
you in this master class, I'm gonna show you how I do it. Okay, so it's gonna be a very
practical lesson.
So the step one, as I said, is to pick a subject and a list of words. So here, my
choice was common adjectives, this is actually something that I do with my beginners. This
is actually the subject of the second lesson. I give them during classes. So what are common
adjectives? They are very basic adjectives that you need to learn that you need to know
their meanings because you will use them a lot in conversations. So this is the subject
that I picked, but you could have picked any kind of subject. Daily routine
likes and dislikes, Sports food furniture parts of the house, job activities. As long as it's
a subject a specific subject, it will be easier for you
to make your
list after you pick the subject you are going to decide about the list
what words will be part of your study list,
I recommend five to ten words, and you will understand why
but if your list is a little bit longer, it's okay, it's just that the exercise will be
a little bit longer, so take that into consideration, and if it's your first time doing this kind
of activity, I recommend starting with a small list because then you will be getting
experience, you will be adapting, adjusting to the process,
okay, nice, so let's focus on the second part, going to Google,
goingo to Google bar, and typing the words. So here, I picked the word dirty. If we return
there dirty is part of my list,
remember, this is an adjective. It's important to know
what kind of word you are googling. Is it an adjective is it a verb is it in noun
is it
an adverb? So these are very important definitions, if you don't know what the word is
you need to search that too and English to English. Dictionaries are very good options.
I'm going to go to Google. And it's very important that your Google is in English, 'cause if
it's in your language,
it will translate automatically. So go to your settings and make sure to change the
Google language settings
to English.
So here I go,
I typed thirty, I typed the symbol
plus (+), and then I typed meaning then ENTER
what is that gonna give me? first, It's going to give me the results from Google Dictionary
okay, a very basic definition. I can listen to the pronunciation of the word. And here
are the definitions
adjectives.
So that's what I'm looking for.
Well covered or marked with an unclean substance. Maybe this is a little bit difficult for
you to understand that's why this is the first part, if you read this and you don't understand
remember
there is a page full of results that you can check. So this is the continuation of the
page and here you can read other explanations
about the word dirty.
but, teacher hmm I don't understand this.
What else can I do? If you don't understand the explanations on this first page,
you can go to Google Images.
Okay, this is the third thing that you're going to do.
And here, guys, big disclaimer
if you don't know the type of word it's going to be very difficult to interpret the image
for example, in this case, I know dirty is an adjective a quality
so it's easier for me to interpret the image. I see, if you are looking for a verb, an action,
you have to interpret the pictures
you see.
This is just to help you
understand, have a better understand of what the word is.
Okay, I searched on Google images, and I searched on Google bar. I'm still a little
confused. What else can I do?
huh, I didn't mention this part of the process, but this is something that you can do, if this
is not working for you,
you can go to Google to Google bar, and you can search the opposite.
Why
maybe you don't know this word, but maybe you know the opposite word and this will
help you understand the word you're looking for? And also learn
a new word.
Let's say you already know, expensive or you already know high, probably you do, if you search
the opposite,
not only you are increasing your list because you're doubling your list, okay,
you're also learning the opposite idea of the words you're searching and this can help
you better understand the vocabulary that you are studying.
So let's go to... to,
google and see an example.
So here, I'm on Google again and I type opposite of dirty and here guys, if you forget the
proposition of
if you write dirty opposite,
it's okay. Google is a very intelligent robot it understands the key
works
and the key words are opposite, and dirty,
anything else, it's fine, if you forget or if you change, if you invert or something.
Okay, how do I know that? Well, because I have tried
many different things and at the end of the day, they all bring me the result I want.
Now, when you go to Google bar, again,
you're going to type opposite of dirty and the first results will be from Google dictionary. You're
not gonna see the word opposite
you're going to see the word antonym
Okay, Antonym, means opposite,
synonym means
similar a word that is similar and antonym means the opposite word
You should get the result here. But again,
teacher,
I don't understand, I don't understand this result. You can scroll down the page and find
other websites. So dirty synonyms, opposite of dirty what's the opposite of dirty
there are many results explaining the opposite of the word dirty.
So this is a good way for you to learn not only the word dirty, but its opposite. Okay,
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I would love that, by searching the opposite word. You are increasing the size of your
list, that's why I said to start with five to ten words because at the end of this exercise,
it will be double that number.
So if you picked five words, it'll be ten words if you picked ten words, it'll be 20
words at the end of this exercise.
Now, a lot of you may be thinking, Priscilla this is so basic, dirty, good. Does it work
with advanced words? Difficult words, phrasal verbs?
Yes, as I said, I do this for myself. You know, I, I study this way,
I do this exact process and even more things that I'm not gonna share here, but I try to
stay in English as much as I can, so I can assure you that it works, but let me show
you...
let's say you wanna learn figure out it's a phrasal verb, phrasal verbs are not basic words,,
maybe, you know, figure out okay, but here, I'm showing you a more complex word.
Okay, the process is the same, you're going to do the same, you're going to follow the
same steps type figure out + meaning Google should show you the first result which is
a definition or a link
to a nice dictionary. In this case here, it's giving me the link to Cambridge English dictionary,
that is giving me the definition. If you scroll down the page, I'm not showing this here,
you will be able to find more definitions and explanations, websites from famous teachers
explaining the word. And if you go to Google Images, that's why I say that you have to
be...
you need to interpret what you see if you go to Google Images and you type figure out,
you don't need to tapy meaning when you go to Google Images just type the word. So
if you go there and you type figure out,
you will see a lot of pictures showing an
action here. It's not a quality it's an action, so you need to interpret, this gets easier
with time, okay? For example, when I started doing this many years ago, it was difficult
for me to interpret what I saw. Today It's much easier, because I kept doing it. Okay,
and remember if the images don't help you look for something else,
and here you can also search for the opposite of figure out, remember, a synonym here
antonyms opposite = antonyms
so the opposite of figure out, and then you will find many websites that will be giving
you the result. Now an additional step if this is not working because the word either
the word was too difficult and you didn't understand the dictionary had many explanations that you
didn't understand.
It's okay,
you can use YouTube
yeah, you can go to youTube bar and you can do the same process, you type the word
plus (+) meaning
why chances are there is a teacher, or one or two or ten or twenty or fifty teachers
talking about
that vocabulary.
Okay, here we have very nice teachers on the first page of results and they probably have
videos explaining the word you're looking for.
I do this every time I do this, I get results sometimes I don't, it happens but it's an
exercise that you can do
and when you watch the video Don't just watch passively, write down examples, write sentences
on your notebook or
type the sentences in your computer, really practice the words that you're watching that
you're studying okay.
Now,
as I said I have been doing this process for a very long time, and it works with basic
expressions difficult expressions but it's very important to highlight that
this doesn't work for phrases. Okay,
if you just go on google and type a long phrase, "it's not gonna work. I'm talking about individual
words, phrasal verbs. Individual words
okay or maybe a three-word phrasal verb, 'cause phrasal verbs sometimes have two, three word
combination, but that's it. Or expressions idioms. But it doesn't work with phrases.
and another thing that I do, my beginners my basic students learn how to do this.
Do they apply it?
I don't know, but I teach them how to search things in English and they learn to start
to interpret the explanations and definitions, they find.
Okay,
and finally, pros and cons, let's start with pros of why you should do this. Ok
first you condition your brain to think in English. Many students come and many
people who follow me, and subscribers, they send me emails asking: Priscila, How
can I think in English? What exercise do you recommend? I have many videos talking about
that, but this is definitely an exercise that will help you condition your brain to think
in English because you are staying in English, you're not translating you're not thinking
in your language, you are reading information in English reading explanations in English,
you are looking at images so you are not relying on your language to study, so you start to
condition your brain, to think in English,
you also learn more words and not just words, you learn a lot of information because you
are totally immersed in the language at that moment when you're studying the vocabulary
and finally you learn how to explain words, in English. I'm pretty sure that you know
the meaning of the word house, but can you explain it well in English? And by doing this
kind of exercise here studying in English you are learning how to explain words in English,
because many times you don't do that,
if you just learn the translation, you don't learn how to explain
and what happens when you need to help someone or when you need to talk about something.
Now, there are some cons too this exercise can be very time-consuming, that's why I recommend
recommend a short
list because it takes a lot of time
and you need to adapt and adjust to this exercise, so until that happens it will take you some
time to do it.
You have to read too many explanations until you find the right one and this can be a little
frustrating for some people, but here, I always see this as an experience you start reading
a lot of explanations until you find the one that makes sense and... but some people see
this as a cons. I see this as an opportunity to study more English. Well, you may also
learn unnecessary definitions because there are many explanations, there are many unnecessary
definitions
and finally it's hard to filter information alone. If you study alone, it may be difficult
to filter information. I get it, I do this process alone I don't have a teacher, so I know
that sometimes it's difficult to filter that's why I, I recommend adjusting and adapting
to this routine of studying. And finally, what happens if you don't understand after
you do all of this process
really well if you really don't understand I don't see any problems looking up the translation,
really, it's not that I am against translation that it's the devil and you can't use it.
I'm saying that if you rely on it too much, then you get addicted to it.
What I'm suggesting is, do all you can in English
and if after all this hard work, you couldn't understand there's nothing wrong with finding
the translation. I do that too, if I do all of this process and I don't feel comfortable
using the word I don't understand. Well, I look up the translation, it's natural, it's
not my native language, but I do the work
I do all the hard work I study as hard as I can, and then if I don't, I look up the translation.
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