hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy don't worry guys it is
me this time not my weird lucy replica
in the form of a leaf or a poverty tree
that was a lot of fun i'm glad you liked
it
the response was honestly hilarious i
had a blast so who has been with me
since the very beginning of english with
lucy not that many people I had well I
had very few it took me a couple of
months to get to 1000 subscribers but my
second ever video was a video called how
to learn and remember vocabulary the
video is a little bit disorganized it
was my second video ever I was 21 years
old and I was eager to get onto YouTube
and share this knowledge that I had but
the videos done really really well but
looking back at the video there are some
updates that I would like to add on
because that teaches you how to learn
and remember vocabulary it's a great
method but it doesn't teach you how to
expand and widen your vocabulary which
is something that could benefit
basically everyone I want to expand my
vocabulary in my mother tongue my native
language which is English and I also
want to expand my vocabulary in my
second and third languages Spanish and
Italian and maybe even Portuguese if you
haven't seen my video about Portuguese
yet check up there yeah so this is a
video that will be useful for both
native speakers and non-native speakers
I want to share with you some tips that
I've picked up some pieces of advice but
it's not going to be your typical how to
improve your vocabulary video it's like
Oh
read books Oh watch films I want to give
you some tips that are really really
gonna help that you might not have
thought of before so bear with me before
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let's get started with the video so my
first tip is don't get overwhelmed when
I think I want to expand my vocabulary I
feel I feel overwhelmed and I just think
oh my god there are so many words and
there are so there's so many words that
I'm lacking in my vocabulary and how on
earth am I going to learn them all you
need to realize that it's not humanly
possible to swallow and regurgitate the
full Oxford Dictionary unless you have a
fabulous gag reflex joke I've seen a
couple of comments on some of my videos
from people saying I like to read the
dictionary before I go to bed which if
your mind is capable of doing that and
you can read a little bit of the
dictionary each day and take it in wow I
take my hat off to you because that's a
really really impressive amount of
dedication you have there I personally
cannot do that so I recommend that you
chunk your vocabulary learning into
three sections and you focus your time
and energy and effort into learning the
vocabulary sections it's not as
complicated as it sounds session 1
topics you are interested in I am
interested in gardening so I like to
watch gardening videos and I have picked
up loads and loads and loads of
vocabulary especially Latin terms
actually for plants just through
watching videos and doing research and
reading books so yes reading books
watching films watching videos is a
great technique make sure you're
focusing so you're choosing a video that
will help you expand your vocabulary and
and you're absorbing it and then you're
applying what you learnt in my previous
video how to learn and remember
vocabulary basically you're keeping a
vocabulary diary and you're being really
really aware and meticulous about words
that you don't know already
don't let
anything slide if you don't know that
word you find out what it means and you
write it down in your phone or in a book
doesn't matter just make sure you are
meticulous section number two vocabulary
that you use and come across on a daily
basis now why do I say use and come
across there's two different parts of a
vocabulary expansion they're seeing a
word that you don't know and learning
what it means but there's also taking
words you already know and finding
alternative ways of saying them synonyms
for example so it's really really useful
to look into synonyms there may be words
that you're using every single day for
me a bit of a problem is the word light
so you're using some words every day all
day like the word like for example like
the word like and you will sound much
more eloquent if you find alternatives
and you switch between the alternatives
words that you come across on a daily
basis things in the news political terms
if there's you know for example when the
brexit was going on I learned loads of
political vocabulary because I was
coming across the terms on a daily basis
I was reading the newspaper I was
watching the news I was very conscious
of the fact that I didn't totally
understand what was going on so I made
myself understand both on a political
level and a vocabulary level and section
number three my favorite section random
spontaneous randomness is you know when
you sit down and you think I wonder what
that extra toe on the back of a dog's
leg that doesn't work is called your
brain wanders use it to your advantage
use it to improve your vocabulary find
out what it means now the next one the
next point that I want to talk about I
know I've already said that I don't want
to say read books watch films but what
I'm gonna say is read books and watch
films but not in the normal way everyone
knows that if you read a book your
vocabulary will improve if you watch
your film your recovery will improve I
want you to think first about in your
language what is a good vocabulary what
makes one person sound eloquent and
another person sound uneducated so I
want you to really pick
and choose carefully which authors you
read and which people you listen to now
I don't mean cut out people that you
find uneducated
I mean dedicate a couple of minutes
every day every other day to listen to
talks and read books written by people
that speak eloquently for example I
really admire the way Stephen Fry speaks
I know I mentioned Stephen Fry in so
many videos I love the way he speaks so
I'll put on you know speech or a
monologue from him and I'll really try
to listen to you know elements of his
accent but also elements of speech his
vocabulary the vocabulary that he uses
which words the Stephen use that make
him sound really really educated and
eloquent and then I'll note those down
and I'll try and implement them into my
own vocabulary and you can do the same
it will work in any language so I guess
the way you could summarize that point
is pick and choose reading and listening
exercises from which you want to improve
your vocabulary okay number three if you
want to improve and widen and expand
your vocabulary and sound more eloquent
I want you to avoid the most boring
words in the English dictionary do you
know which word it is the word is very
oh my god very is such a boring word
every time I hear are you on why say
very good if you can say excellent
fantastic amazing incredible why say
very bad if you can say dreadful
appalling hideous revolting stop using
the word very and start incorporating
more advanced adjectives into your
everyday speech and writing when you're
speaking try and be conscious of every
time that you use the word very and
which adjectives you used it with then
you can go and search the adjective in a
Fuss horas and find synonyms very dirty
can be filthy or squalid very cross can
be seething livid I actually have a
video about that you can check it up
there but yeah being conscious of when
you use the word very
is very very useful how ironic
so I just made that mistake there being
conscious of the word very is an
invaluable tool doesn't sound better
doesn't it sound better I think it does
my last tip might not be for everybody
but it really helps me especially when
I'm bored and waiting for something I'm
an incredibly impatient person I hate
waiting and if there's one room that an
impatient person cannot stand it's a
waiting room so I recommend that you use
this time to your advantage when you're
doing nothing so you're sitting on a
train you're sitting in a waiting room
anytime you're waiting do vocabulary
checks so just sit or stand and observe
the room around you or the area around
you and try and find something that you
don't know how to say it's most likely
going to be a noun but it could be a
verb it could be somebody doing
something somebody could be skipping and
you think oh god I don't know how to say
that in Japanese it could be an emotion
that somebody has just used that time to
look around meticulously note down what
it is that you don't know and then
search it if you're trying to acquire
vocabulary in another language then you
can just write it down in your own
language it gets a bit more complicated
if you don't really know how to say the
word in your own language use what you
can take a picture of it video it if
appropriate try and describe it use
other words to describe it note it down
and then you can talk to somebody about
it something that I'm going through at
the moment is farm vocabulary my
boyfriend is a farmer and I have
suddenly been launched into this new
world of machinery and he said to me the
other day oh we use farm save or
something so I just noted it down and
got back home searched it and let them
hold I know what's farm savers now I
think it's when you you keep your own
seed and then you use it the next day
sometimes if he's gone off in the
tractor and I have to wait for him I'll
just look around the farm and I think
Bale
challenger John Deere tractor and if
there's anything I don't know how to say
I will then ask him later and it might
be a bit annoying for him but I'm trying
my best right guys that's it for today's
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