I Bob the Canadian here are you trying
to learn English on your own and are you
looking for ways to practice English
when you don't have someone to practice
with well in this video I'm going to
show you 10 crazy and fun ways to
practice English by yourself
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i bob the canadian here welcome to this
video where i'm gonna help you learn ten
ways to practice english by yourself but
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let's get started ten ways that you can
practice english all by yourself so this
first one is called narrate your life so
this is how it works either out loud or
in your head you say what you are doing
so for instance if i was doing
narrate your life in order to practice
my english i would be saying this i am
walking in my lawn i am walking under
some trees the trees are getting their
leaves i am walking towards some flowers
i think i might pick some flowers for my
wife so you kind of get the point when
you do narrate your life as you go
through your day either mentally in your
head or out loud you say all of the
things that you are doing this is great
practice so narrate your life number one
so this second one is called label
everything not sure if you're familiar
with post-it notes but they're little
pieces of paper that are sticky and this
one works better inside I'm just doing
it outside for fun but what you do is
you write down all of the vocabulary
words maybe in your kitchen and you
label everything with the post-it note
so that's a mirror
this one says doer
this one says door handle this one says
window
this one says tire then you go and look
at all of them if you do this inside not
outside like crazy Bob the Canadian you
can leave them on for a few days
label everything in your kitchen label
everything in your living room label
everything in your bathroom and if you
remove the post-it note once you are
sure that you know the word it's just a
great way to learn vocabulary so that
was number two label everything
this third way that you can practice
English alone is to use technology like
Google home or Siri so this is my son's
room he doesn't like it when I use his
Google home but we can use it to ask
about the weather hey Google what's the
weather like in Toronto today in Toronto
today it will be cloudy with a
forecasted high of 17 and a low of 7
currently at 17 and mostly cloudy thanks
so that's good too please
so they it's not perfect but you can
definitely use this technology to
practice your English so a really cool
fourth way to practice your English
alone is to use a random picture
generating website like this one you can
do this on a computer or on your phone
and I'll put a link below to the website
that does this what it will do is give
you a random picture and then you can
describe it in English so for instance
here I could say it is a picture of the
coast
it looks like the ocean has lots of mist
today then if I hit refresh it generates
a new picture here is some sushi I am
hungry
let's hit it one more time this is a
picture of a city it looks like it might
be New York so you can see how this
really pushes the boundaries of the
vocabulary that you know and it prompt
you it pushes you to speak out loud and
to basically express yourself in English
it's just a really good thing to do so
that was number four talk about random
pictures again link in the description
below to this website there's actually
quite a few of them that help you do
this
so for this fifth one you need a pen you
need an article in English with a lot of
vocabulary that you want to learn and
you need a piece of paper and we're
gonna copy the article onto the piece of
paper but there's a little bit of a
difference here than how you would
normally do it we're going to put the
magazine at one end of a table we're
gonna put the pen and paper at the other
end of the table and here's what you
need to do find that you want to copy
sorry my dog just hit the tripod I think
it'll be okay let me just move things
back you've all met Oscar right so I'm
gonna copy this article right here so
I'm gonna read that it says butter in a
small bowl and then I'm gonna run over
here I'm gonna write down
butter and then I'm gonna run back over
here and I'm gonna read the next
sentence with 1 tablespoon dill and
quarter teaspoon each salt and pepper
and I'm gonna run over here I think you
get the point don't you you need to copy
the entire article from the magazine to
the piece of paper and keep them really
separate from each other and really help
you put those vocabulary words into your
brain so that was number 5 copying an
article a sixth way to practice your
English by yourself is to talk to Google
Docs I don't know if you have Google
Docs but if you don't you should sign up
it's free and I can go to tools and I
can choose voice typing when I click on
this microphone it will start to listen
to everything that I say
it is a great way to practice
pronunciation I really like it so a
seventh really cool way to practice
English by yourself is to take your
phone at the end of the day and record
yourself talking in English about some
of the words and phrases that you learn
that day then use that recording as your
alarm clock for the next morning most
phones under the alarm clock setting you
can have it play an audio file or a
video file so talk about in English some
of the words and phrases you learned
that day just before you go to bed and
then set it as your alarm clock so the
next morning when you wake up it's the
first thing you hear an eighth way to
learn English all by yourself is to type
sentences into Google Translate in your
own language and then listen to Google
reading them back to you so for instance
if I hear click French and say the Hmong
shaking pizza and then in English I can
click here it's not perfect but it's a
great way not just to translate
sentences but to learn new sentences so
here I can type I am a man although that
sounded like a woman's voice but that's
okay I think anyways another way to
practice your English alone use Google
Translate but use it for more than just
translating use it to practice your
pronunciation let's do one more sentence
I live in Canada awesome the ninth way
to practice your English is called what
does it do where did it come from so
this is a little bit like narrate your
life but what you do is you look at
something and you say ok this is a pail
what does it do this pail holds water
where did it come from I think I bought
this pail from a store from a hardware
store one year ago so if you do what
does it do
where did it come from it's just a
really good way to practice your
vocabulary and to help you remember it
let's do one more let's do this lock so
we would say this is a lock what does it
do it keeps this box locked up so you
can't open it where did it come from I
think I bought it at the same hardware
store that I bought the pail at so
that's number nine what does it do and
where did it come from I almost forgot
what number nine was a tenth way to
learn English alone is to start to draw
your vocabulary when you can take new
vocabulary words and add an image to it
it will really help you remember it the
other day I did an English lesson on
technology and we learned words like
television remote control laptop and
words like car radio so if you can start
to make little drawings whenever you
learn a new word it will really really
help you remember it so that's the tenth
way to learn English by yourself and
it's called draw your vocabulary well
hey that's ten ways for you to practice
your English alone ways that you can
practice your English all by yourself
I'm Bob the Canadian here don't forget
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just when you are learning English but
when you're learning other languages as
well but that was ten ways to practice
your English all by yourself I hope you
enjoyed it and I'll
you in the next video
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