Hey naturals, what's up? How are you in this video? I'm going to answer a question
I got from one of my English Learner students in the go natural English fluency Club
Fatima asked me about how to improve her vocabulary in a good fast way
So I'm going to answer her question as I did in our private online community
but I want to share it with you because I think it's really a
really important question that a lot of you can benefit from
So if you're interested in improving your vocabulary then keep watching it
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So how to build your vocabulary?
Let's begin by talking about why growing your vocabulary is important now in traditional English
classrooms your teacher
Usually will give you a list of vocabulary words that you need to memorize, and you need to know how to spell them
maybe you need to fill in some blanks with these vocabulary words, but I
Don't think just memorizing lists of vocabulary is especially helpful because then it's lacking a step so
When you get into a situation where you want to speak English?
You're not sure how to actually make a sentence with all these words
You know because you just memorized them on their own just a long list of
individual words not joined together
Not making any complete idea and certainly
You don't know how to pronounce them in a group of words
And we know that pronunciation can change depending on the words before and after
Specific vocabulary words, so there are some reasons why I don't recommend. Just memorize long list of vocabulary
One way that I teach and that I also
learn vocabulary and other languages is
this so there's about
Four steps the first step is to find some material that you enjoy in English for me
When I'm learning another language like Portuguese for example
I look for a song that I enjoy in Portuguese
and I listen to that song and then I
Repeat what I hear along with the singer now. I skipped a step there because most of the time
It's pretty difficult to understand lyrics
Just the way you hear them
So I usually look up or search for the lyrics online
And it's usually pretty easy to find the lyrics if it's a popular song. I pull up the lyrics and
I
Read along with the lyrics while I?
listen to the singer so step one is I listen to the song step two is I find the lyrics and
Step two point five is I just listen to the song again while I look at the lyrics step
Three is I read the lyrics or sing the lyrics along with the song while I listen to it
step four then is to turn off the music and
Using the lyrics
to sing the song along with
Reading the words on my own and step five is actually to sing the song without
Listening to the song or without reading the lyrics so this
This formula can work with any material really it could be with the news something short
I really recommend starting with something short
It could be with a poem, but the shorter the better because if you're like me well
You don't have a lot of free time and maybe you have a short attention span
Like I do so that's why I like to use songs or a poem or maybe a short news clip to
Practice building my vocabulary and to practice my pronounce
so
Songs and poems and news clips are really good for your pronunciation
but the point of this video is actually building your vocabulary so
for example in a song
You'd probably find some new words that you haven't learned before this just happened for me in Portuguese
I was using a song called
Ezza down to improve my portuguese and one of the first words in the lyrics is
It's a really hard word for me to say I'm probably gonna say it wrong. It's
Hay gay, which means to?
rebuild and
I'd never heard that word before I had no idea how to say it. I had no idea what it meant so
when I saw that word I
Looked it up. I just googled the word and I found out what it means in English
and I listened to the song over and over and over and listen to how the singer says it until I could say it a
little bit better
So this is a great way to build your vocabulary is to listen to a material that you enjoy
Look for new words that you haven't seen before
Look them up online
using either a dictionary and
or
just search for the word and see what images come up in Google Images or
What sentences come up when you search for the word on Google?
then you found the new words and
Also, of course follow the steps that I said before the five steps where you sing and you read the lyrics or you?
Say them on your own, but you also want to
create
your own
Sentence using this word try even if you're not sure if it's correct try creating your own sentence
Ideally a sentence that you think you might use in the near future so for me
I might try you know for my example. I might try using this word hey get him
please tell me in the comments if I'm saying this correctly which is to rebuild in Portuguese, maybe I would say I
need to
You build my websites for example
Other things you might rebuild could be a house, but I don't really need to rebuild my house
So I'm not going to say that right now
So just think of an example that you might use in a conversation in the near future
write down that sentence and then
repeat the steps that I said before you have the material in front of you, then practice saying it and
Try to get a native speaker or teacher
To say the sentence for you
To check the sentence also and to give you an example of how to pronounce it or to tell you if you're saying the words
correctly and
There you go, then you can practice with that person and then you can practice using
That sentence in your next conversation
And you've started to use at least one new vocabulary word
Possibly you learned many more in the material that you used
I know I learned a few new words and reviewed a few words in that song
So I recommend that you use this formula to improve your vocabulary, but also a huge added benefit
Is it's going to improve your pronunciation and not to mention it's really fun if you enjoy the material you're going to
Enjoy the process of improving your English a lot more than simply memorizing long lists of vocabulary words
So try it out
let me know if you enjoyed this in English lesson leave me a comment and let me know if you have other tips for
Learning new vocabulary words - I would love for you to comment and maybe I could include them in my next video
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