Hallo, my dear friends! Welcome to Series English!
My name is Antonia Romaker
and today we are going to talk about
how you can study new words faster.
So this is part two.
We already had one class devoted to this topic,
where we discussed several aspects and principles
of how you can do it faster - study new words and phrases.
Today we are going to continue and study some more methods,
more ticks and tips and techniques. Let's get started!
The next tip is - try to use the words yourself,
try to force them into your speech, into your writing,
when you, for example, write diary entries
or Facebook entries, description to your photos,
when you tell stories, when you speak and so on.
Because it will speed up the process a lot.
And you'll remember this word much faster or this phrase.
Also a good idea would be
to try to tell stories using your post-its.
So you take a post-it with phrases you wrote out
or wrote down and you imagine different stories
trying to use all these words,
sometimes even try to use the exact order.
The stories might be lame, stupid
and there can be unexpected twists.
It doesn't matter, you just need to put these phrases
into one story.
Let me give you an example.
The phrases I have here are
lose one's nerve, on the bright side, it all adds up,
bring A game, walk all over, leap of faith and so on.
OK, now let's try to create a story,
or at least the beginning of a story.
Well, I have a friend, who... no.
There was a girl, who lost her nerve
whenever she saw doctors.
She just... was so frustrated and irritated, when she saw them.
And she didn't know why, she had no idea.
However on the bright side she was quite a healthy girl.
And she didn't have to meet doctors a lot,
she didn't have to visit them a lot.
So that was a good thing.
But then she started analyzing her behavior,
and she wondered: 'Why do I lose my nerve
whenever I see doctors?'
And then she realized that she envied them.
She really liked how they looked like
and how important they were.
And she thought that probably she needed to start
learning about what they do, so she...
Well, as long as she loved biology and chemistry
she started studying medicine too.
And she found out that she loved it!
So she thought:
It all adds up! I love medicine!
I have to be a doctor! I need to me one!
So and she started studying medicine,
she entered some university
and she always tried to bring her A game,
She worked really hard to become a really good doctor.
She was depressed, but then she had a leap of faith...
And so on and so forth!
Well you can continues, and these stories can be
dull, stupid, illogical.
But it doesn't matter, your job is just to try to use these phrases
in your own context.
Even try creating examples.
Examples could be good too.
So create examples with the words and phrases you study.
In this case you'll be able to introduce them into your active vocabulary.
And the last thing I want to talk about today is
try to pay special attention to word formation
and any logic you can find.
As for word formation,
So words, which have the same stem, usually have similar meanings.
For example 'act' can be a noun, can be a verb,
'Action' is also connected with acting,
'actor' - the person who acts in a certain way,
and makes up a good career out of it.
So find...
study different suffixes and prefixes.
And these suffixed might help you understand
what kind of a word you are dealing with.
Is it a noun? Is it an adjective?
For example, the word 'bearable', you know the word 'bear',
well tolerate and you see the suffix 'able'
and you know that it is an adjective suffix.
So 'bearable' is an adjective which is connected with the verb 'bear'.
Not like 'a bear', but the verb 'bear'.
So try to analyze words, their suffixes, prefixes.
Some suffixes and prefixes have specific meanings.
For example, there are negative prefixes like un-, il-, in-.
And you know that they negative the meaning of the word.
You know the word 'happy', what does the word 'unhappy' mean?
It's very simple.
So analyze the word, it's structure.
And phrasal verbs, for example.
If you know what kind of changes this or that preposition introduces,
like for example, 'up' which is connected with the upward direction
or with finishing something.
So the phrasal verb 'speak up', what can it mean? Up.
'Up' can mean higher.
So your voice can go higher,
so it can go louder.
'Speak up' means to speak louder.
So you can still find some logic in phrasal verbs,
not always, unfortunately.
Let's say 'bring up', it's a little bit more difficult.
Bring means to bring something with you, on you.
But 'bring up somebody' means
to hop! So up!
There is a small child and you bring him up.
It means that he grows up, grow up - also up!
So he becomes bigger and you make it, you bring him up.
It is connected with your parenting and
so you make a person out of him.
Logic and connections are extremely important while studying anything
and especially while studying new words in any foreign language.
So these principles, which I have listed,
might be useful for you if you study any foreign language:
English, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and so on.
So try using these principles
and you will boost your vocabulary much faster,
it will grow!
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Happy English and Russian practice! Bye-bye!
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or other problems connected with studying a foreign language,
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