Hello and welcome back to another video,
Today's topic is vocabulary acquisition
First of all, let us talk about where you can encounter new vocabulary words
So I'm not even going to talk about textbooks but instead other ways that you can acquire
vocabulary and then after that how you can retain the new words you have learnt first way you can get new vocabulary is
Obviously, I think everybody knows this tip watching movies watching dramas
TV shows
Listening to the radio and listening to music. So those all fall under
Immersion now if you are listening and not really seeing the word so that would be maybe watching a show without subtitles
Or listening to the radio
You might hear a word you don't know and you don't know how to
Write it down what it is spelled like what you can do is try and write it the way you think it should be spelled
Then do a Google search or a search on one of your target languages countries search engine
alternatively
You can search on a dictionary app or even Google Translate type in the word and it should autocorrect it to the correct spelling
Apart from finding the meaning online after you've done that you can also do an image search online
And you can see what pictures pop up for that specific word also to help you
understand a bit more in depth what that word really I used to listen to this podcast called hiki be ki h k b k
FM it's japanese podcast
unfortunately earlier this year they did their very last episode, but they have like
200 episodes or something going back a few years. So if you're learning japanese, you can definitely check them out
I love them a lot
anyway
So I used to listen to their podcast while working and every now and then
if there was a word
I don't understand I would listen to it and write it down how I think it should be written down and then
Translate that and there would be my new words without a textbook
The other thing you can do is by seeing the word and writing it down
So what I've shown in a lot of my previous videos is like one of my favorite Korean books, I would
Underline the word that I'm learning right? It's meaning above it so I can learn the word in context
it's always better to learn a new vocabulary word in context than it is to look at long word lists and
Just learn singular words
you remember a sentence like where is the bathroom a lot faster than you do just the word wear and
Bathroom, right? That's why phrase books are so useful when you go traveling. You don't learn a bunch of single words you learn sentences
Someone that notes a learning word in context from the book is a great idea
another way you can learn words in context is by
Similarly watching TV shows but specifically watching shows that have subtitles in your target language
Examples are Korean variety shows when?
Somebody says something funny or when there's a key word the word or the sentence will pop up on the screen
like to emphasize what the person just said and
it's really great because you can read the word and you don't need to guess it's spelling and
also
You learn it in
Context but you must make sure to write that down or type it in your phone and make sure to use it
Otherwise, you're gonna forget it. If only everyone had photographic memories. Okay? Okay. Let us look at vocabulary
memorization techniques number one
labeling what you can do is go around your apartment or your room and stick little labels on everything if
You are a learning Korean. You will stick a sticker on your chair
That's a read off and it's so pop on your sofa and I don't know check on your books
You can label everything the main point here is being immersed and seeing these words all the time
It's sort of the same concept as changing your phone language to another language
Because you will be seeing the whole time
You just mustn't get lazy when you use your phone in a different language
Because you're so used to with muscle memory and the layout of apps and stuff that you're used to
Knowing where to click but you don't actually read it in a different language
If you can't read it, like in Chinese characters of kanji write it down and look it up
Don't just let it go because you know what it means but don't know how to say it
I do that a lot. I should talk to myself next technique that I want to talk about is the bold list method
Yeah, I'm not going to go into in too much depth because there's a lot about it online
But basically it is making a long list of words on one side of the page and I might be wrong
I haven't looked at it for a while
Leaving it for a few days and then going back to the list and seeing how much you remember. I
Don't personally like that method because it takes the space between learning the word and reviewing it takes very long
But apparently a lot of poly cos use it and it is proven to help words stick into your long-term memory
Next we're going to talk about shopping lists and Diaries and planners. I always write my shopping list in a different language
Especially if I need to buy something completely new like I don't know asparagus and I don't know that word
For example, I will look it up and make sure to write asparagus on my list
It'll force me to remember the word because if I go to the shop, and I don't know what I wrote there
I'm doomed. So making shopping lists is a great way to reinforce and remember vocab words similarly
You can use your diary or planner and change it into
Your target language planner if you have a meeting, for example
Instead of writing meeting in English or your native language
You can write it in your target language
Like Moines in Korean or kyyy in Japanese rather write it in the other language
So you get used to using this language on a daily basis?
what I also like to do is write notes like if I'm taking notes in a lecture or somebody is
Giving the speech or whatnot anytime. You have to take a lot of notes
I like to throw in other languages in there mainly because it's so fast to write in the language other than English
for example
if you look at the Chinese character meeting which means name or nama in Japanese or know in Korean it all relates to
Names or the counter for people in Korea? No
It is a lot faster to write it in Chinese or Korean than it is to write na
e in English
So if I just need to write this person's name was that I would just put mean character and then write their name
I work in the field of design and a word I have to write a lot is design instead of writing
Des IG and I would write take it to you in Korea
Now what I'm gonna do that is the word for designing Korean is TT knee
Starts at the T good the T and then top you design right?
So I just kind of shorten it and take the ticket and the G
Pop it together and that's my own made-up word for design
I've used this method a lot in the university
so actually studying for tests would have to take a lot of notes and
my fellow students did not really like it because they would ask me if they could borrow my notes and I said sure and they
Could agreed half of it. So hey
Sorry, I forgot to talk about lash guards. Sorry
Flashcards, I don't really like them unless I'm very very pressured for time to learn
Certain words what I have to go through repetition repetition in a short period I don't know they they they work
Just not my favorite way of learning
anyways, so obviously I think you know how to make a flashcard you write the word on the one side and the meaning or the
pronunciation or the usage of the word on the other side and you go through this what you can do with flashcards though is
Make three piles one is words. You already know
So once you've got the word down put it away in a pile review it later
The other pile would be words to review
So if you keep forgetting it or if you get it wrong with a few times put it in the review pile
And your last file should be words. You still need to learn if you look at in your life
I have no idea what that is. It goes in the to learning pile and eventually working through your flashcards
They should all go in the done pile. What's a great sense of accomplishment?
Alrighty, also sorry. Yes, if you don't like paper or if you want to save paper you can use apps like Anki
Which is like a digital flashcard app and I think a lot of people use Quizlet
Well for vocab so you can look into those
Alright, I am done now. Thank you guys so much for watching
if you have any other vocabulary acquisition tips
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And I will see you in the next video! Bye!