what are the best features in YouTube for language students I'm on my fourth language I'm studying
polish at the moment and there are certain things in YouTube that really help me when
trying to study polish and I've also used the same techniques for studying French and for studying
Spanish in the past as well so I'm going to show you five excellent features that YouTube offers us
as language students and then I'm going to show you how I actually use them so this is a really
practical video for any student studying a language but also for useful for teachers to
know about they can pass these ideas onto their students really hope you like the video and as
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love to know out of the five ideas which ones you think is the most useful let's get started
this is the first feature I'm going to show you let's do it by searching for some uh videos for
learning English so we're going to put English learn okay let's go shopping in English so we're
going to search for shopping in English and obviously what's going to happen is loads of
videos are going to come up onto the screen now what you can do what you probably don't realize
you can do is that you can actually filter so what I can do is click now and say well I actually want
videos that are for shopping in English but I want them with subtitles that's really going to help me
a lot so I click here and that immediately helps me to find videos that are only with
subtitles which are really useful for example in polish I always look for videos with subtitles
now I can even take that further I can click and add extra filters and I can
say well I only want videos if I was a low level I might do but up under four minutes
but these days I normally do between four and twenty minutes so the first thing is learn to
use the filters because it can really help you to find exactly what you're looking for
so let's just take an example so if I click on this video the next thing
I want to show you is that this is really useful let me just jump the ad
okay now you've got the subtitles here but also look at this I can click here and I can actually
open up the transcript of that video on the right hand side so it's really useful because it can
be playing the video and kind of following the transcript from here or following it from here
but look at this I can also click on the transcript and jump directly to that part
of the video again something I do in polish a lot particularly for example if I play a part and then
I want to repeat it so I play a part and I think I want to hear that again then I can just simply
click on the part that I want to hear again and it will jump back there and play that part again
now perhaps my next trick is my favourite one I'm gonna toggle the timestamps off and let's say I've
got a particular sentence and I'm not quite sure what it means I can click on it I can copy that
sentence so all I need to do is just click and select it copy the sentence and I'm going to jump
over to google translate and now I'm on google translate I can paste that sentence in let's
say that I'm a Spanish speaker and I'm learning English and I can see exactly what that sentence
would mean in Spanish now google translate isn't perfect but it's pretty good and it's got better
and better over the years as there's been more data on the internet I use it a lot I use it a lot
to if I can't understand a sentence in polish I put it in here and I get the English translation
but there's even more I can do when working with google translate I'm going to show you now
so what you can do with google translate apart from listen to the audio of the sentence that
you've put in you can actually save it you can click on this button here and
save that sentence and then you can have a collection of all the sentences you've saved
but just by clicking on this star you can just see all the sentences and then of course what you can
do is click and listen to them and go through them so you've got a collection here of all
the sentences that you're currently learning from the video that you're working with
so I've got a real example on the screen here of some sentences that I'm currently studying
I've got them obviously in polish and in English so I can always click and listen
but I can also do something else that's really useful so I can click here and I can bring these
into what we call a google sheet and it's really handy because I've got these sentences and I've
normally got about 10 sentences when I do this but what I can do now is just copy those sentences
okay really quickly jump over to quizlet which I know a lot of people use for studying vocabulary
and it's super fast particularly particularly if you've say got 10 words just click on create study
set and I'm going to call these ones um Brach because I'm practicing a particular verb in
polish and then I'm going to click here and just paste in those words
and immediately I've created for myself a new set of cards that I can then start to play with
so then I can click on flash cards and actually play these and I've got the sentence in polish
and on obviously if I click on the other side the sentence in English and I can move to the next one
sentence in polish in English and in fact if I click here I can turn on the audio and what I
can do is I can set it so that I've got the audio on for polish because that's obviously important
but not for English and then what I can do is YouTube your slope and I can go to the next one
okay and then don't forget to take your medicine
okay and then next one uh in the mornings he or she takes a shower brilliant way of
working with the phrases that I've taken from the YouTube video and that's exactly what I did
if we jump back to this video there's a couple of other really useful features
in YouTube that can help you one if you click here and I use this quite a lot when working in polish
is I drop the speed because I like trying to listen to kind of normal videos normal
videos videos that have actually been made made from native speakers I really like working with
those but obviously I need them a bit slower so I often slow the speed of the delivery down
and you can do that just by clicking here on the settings and changing the playback speed
now another technique I sometimes use is that I switch the languages and what I mean by that is
though I've got the transcript here in English for this let's say I'm a Spanish person and I actually
want to have the subtitles in Spanish so I want to be listening English but seeing what that would be
in Spanish I can click over on subtitles and I can change the language that I'm working with so if I
click on auto translate and let's say for example that I just want to follow this in Spanish if I
click here notice now I've got the translation into Spanish on the screen if I play this
but then I've also got the English version coming up on the right hand side in the transcript now
this translation won't be perfect but it can be really helpful and again it's a technique that I
sometimes use when I'm working with videos in polish so just to give you an example of what
I mean when I'm studying polish I can have the polish here but the English here if the
subtitles have been provided in English I can have the polish translation by setting the auto
subtitle language to polish but I've also got the transcript here because I searched for a video
with transcripts this is really really powerful for me because sometimes I do
need to quickly check and see what is being said in English and so this can really help me
and it's a technique I often use okay really hope you found that video useful if you're a language
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