How I learn and REMEMBER vocabulary in 5+ languages 🐰
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- You learn words, but forget them after a week. How do we fix that? It's simpler than you think.
Learn vocab in 8 languages with LingoPie: learn.lingopie.com/elysse
00:00 - 00:39 let's talk vocabulary
00:40 - 1:46 study in context, always
1:47 - 2:28 see it & hear it
2:29 - 3:26 LingoPie!
3:27 - 4:59 study IN your target language
5:00 - 6:25 output, ASAP
6:26 - 7:38 switch to ACTIVE recall
7:39 - 8:16 look at my new cat Garbanzo.
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💌 about me: my name is Elysse, I'm 22 years old from the southern U.S. I've been learning languages for about 8 years, and I speak English (native), Spanish (C2), German (B2/C1), Portuguese (B2), French (B1/B2), American Sign Language (advanced), and Turkish (A1). I'm interested in learning Hebrew, Chinese, Georgian, and maybe Náhuatl as well :)
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@@digitschoool I what to improve my English speaking
please please please comment on what i said
No we can’t.
No you don't. They only accepting CC and not everyone has a CC. I'm preferring to use debit.
I agree with you so much with the 'study *IN* your target language' section. One of the best pieces of advice from back in my IB Spanish days was to use a monolingual dictionary, even if you still have to use a translation dictionary occasionally. And I was so grateful that my Spanish teacher taught the class 100% in Spanish. (I had the same teacher 10th-12th grade.) I learned all of my advanced grammar points in Spanish, to the point where I didn't know the English names for some grammatical features. As I relied less and less on English, I felt my Spanish improve faster and faster.
*IB Spanish trauma* LOL but yesss I agree!! it’s so much more efficient once you get to an advanced lefek
I did the same with English! Now I'm trying to improve my English and learn a little bit of Spanish
How when you dont understand the definition
@@shinzo5744 It's probably not something you'd do as an early beginner, but over time as you acquire more words the target language definitions will start to make sense. But even as a beginner I wouldn't recommend going immediately to the bilingual dictionary. Try searching for the word in Google Images in that language or Wikipedia article in that language. The great thing about not relying on your native language is that it trains your brain to get meaning from something even if you don't understand every single word. Of course, if you try these and you still are confused, absolutely go to a bilingual dictionary or translator.
@@aafrophonee I dont mine not knowing 100% meaning of a sentence, phrase or even a whole page of text. Why beat yourself up with uncommon words you might not even see, hear or speak for months or even years. I don't mine forgetting words in foreign languages. That means they are not used frequently in my opinion.
I think an important tip is don't just burn through words as fast as possible, without thinking much. Pay attention to etymology and history, as well as related words. Words don't appear randomly, they have roots and origins. For example, I have never studied French, but I assumed Penser was to think because it looks like a verb in Spanish with the er ending, and I know the English word "pensive" which I assume shares the root with Penser. Another well known story is the Japanese word for buffet is バイキング (Viking), which seems really random until you learn that it refers to the Scandinavian smörgåsbord, as in a Viking style meal.
I 100% agree!
This sounds overly complicated no offense
@@Izzyjeanyoure just very slow
@@Izzyjeanyou've got chatgpt, bard and Google now. You've got no excuse. It's time to up your vocabulary game 💪
I can learn the origin and history from where? I am learning English by myself
I’m a native French and wow she prononce french so good it’s incredible ✨💗
Indeed although i have yet to see the sentence « qu’est-ce que tu penses? » said in any context. We’d rather say « à quoi tu penses? » or « qu’est-ce que t’en penses? »
#gnagnagna #çapinaillegrave
@@iansmirna5183 Agreed! That was my thought exactly. Lol Oh well, her prononciation is good. I was told I have a Parisian accent (1 yr in Paris, 4 in the South of France lol).
@@wendyinparis8939 apart from extreme south east, south west or top north, there are not so many accents in France compare to many surrounding countries such as Spain or UK. The « parisian » accent is actually the most common, for french people it is considered flat, like not even an accent.
Even in south nowadays it seems like the youngsters don’t have accent anymore. Accents are pointed at, very few people on TVor radio with an accent, France is very normalized.
Her pronounciation is ok-ish, calm down lol
You are a native french speaker, or you are a french person. Saying you are a french is incorrect. The Gigachad person says soneone is a french, but he’s deliberately using bad English. Hop you don’t mind a correction.
You're so correct about learning words in context! I took both French and Spanish in school in the USA where we had to memorize lists of new words every week. I didn't learn the language that way and in fact never wanted to go near a foreign language ever again. That is until I relocated to Europe. I began learning my first language in context and it went so quickly! I was amazed. I've since learned 4 additional languages, all in context.
So listen to this woman. She knows what she's talking about!
I'm not quite ready for the "study your target language IN your target language" concept yet because I'm still pre-intermediate, but once I move up a level I'm planning to do that more!
Of course! that’s why i gave the heads up that it’s more for upper levels, maybe somewhere between B2-C1.. but everyone’s different!
@@elyssespeaks Oh! I hope it didn't come across as a criticism - it's more that I'm really excited to be able to try that soon! :)
IF you move up. Good luck with that.
@@LesserMoffHootkins why would you say "if" I move up? I'm doing quite well in my current level and I don't expect to have any problems with the final exam. Once I pass that, I will move into the lower intermediate level. It's very weird to say that to me.
@@SherryOsborne
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I cannot agree more. This is exactly how I teach Polish 🇵🇱. You have to learn words in sentences!
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Polish? Jeez it's such a challenge, Im polish and I can't speak it properly
@@mabrys__spef4794 Me too 😭
i can be so lazy when it comes to making flashcards because it's a lot easier and faster to put the english translation on the other side instead of using my target language for both sides. thanks for these tips!
yeah, like i said i really only recommend that for advanced learners!! i’m not sure where you’re at with your TLs but
@@elyssespeaks i'm intermediate/advanced so i have no excuse lmaooo
As a Taiwanese who is picking up English, I feel like not doing translations into my native languages is kinda helpful for being able to truly understand the sentence that I’m learning cuz the word order of the language differ from country to country so I just tend to comprehend the meaning of the sentence instead of reordering the structure of it cuz it’s unnecessary to do a proper, perfect translation unless you’re a interpreter or what. On the other hand, since stop sticking to memorize the translation, it actually highly boosts my spoken English as I have a deeper and more thorough awareness of the vocab itself instead of just memorizing the words literally. Because I have started learning English by memorizing the chunks of the words and the definition as well, most importantly I get rid of learning vocab individually, I can feel I’m getting more familiar with English.
Do you need a language partner ?? Haha
I about DIED at the duolingo part, your editing is hilarious! Thanks for the extra tips, things I haven't thought of before :)
HAHAH no shade 😹 thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed 🙏
The 'study words in context' seems such a logic thing but I understood it like six whole years into my japanese learning journey, i don't know why. great video btw, i'm going to incorporate a couple of things i'm not doing right now, thank you
It's definitely something that solves that "what's missing" feeling when you get to an advanced level! Cheers, i'm glad you liked the video
This was so helpful! Thank you so much :D and that kitten is the cutest thing! 😍
Always studying in context...Best piece of advice ever!!! 110% agree with you!!!
I vouch for this! This is what I'm doing for Mandarin! And will do for Russian & Korean. hehe ^^
Some personal notes/tips/reminders for the future:
00:00 - 00:39 let's talk vocabulary
00:40 - 1:46 *study in context, always:* Instead of "memorizing" individual words, learn them integrated in small texts, dialogues.
1:47 - 2:28 *see it & hear it:* Subtitles & the way natives express that sentence (context learning) will help you remember the word. Repeating it aloud helps a lot! Put that acting into it. ^^
2:29 - 3:26 LingoPie! *Master interactive subtitles website*
3:27 - 4:59 *study IN your target language:* prioritize storing the TL text/word in your brain as it is, detach yourself from translating it into your NL.
5:00 - 6:25 *output, ASAP:* Repeat the words/sentence aloud; create simple kid-like sentences with those words.
6:26 - 7:38 *switch to ACTIVE recall:* Recall in TL, instead of NT. Use the voc/sentences you already have to create new ones. Simple daily stuff or make it up.
7:39 - 8:16 look at my new cat Garbanzo. *Meow!*
Great advice! I make a list of all my passive vocabulary for each language and every now and then go down the list to see what I remember. When the words become active I move them to another list.
You are a genius I really found studying in context and by using our senses so much beneficial than just memorizing single words with their translations. Also, writing the words in the native language and produce the word in the target language is really a clever way to practice the output 👏🏻 gonna try these with my korean study thank u so much
Glad I came across this vid. Currently studying Italian and always looking for new tips to help me on this journey. So inspirational so thanks for sharing.
Also, one of my favorite things personally. Once you get to a high enough level where you can read fairly well, like every word isn't new to you, or whenever you feel comfortable, really, start reading Wikipedia articles. I actually did it cold turkey with Polish once knowing barley any and it honestly went pretty well. More frustrating than having a solid foundation, but not bad.
From the beginning start writing down/making quizlets and learning the words that you don't know, go over them until you can read that part of the article and none of the words seem foreign. Pick them apart, look at the prefixes and suffixes and such in the context they're used in in the words. Maybe write a summary of that part without looking at the article using some of the words you just learned.
You'll start seeing less and less words you don't know as you go, and since they're on one topic, you'll see the same words used in different contexts and in different forms in a natural way. If you read an entire article, especially a long one, take your time, like literally maybe days focusing on learning the words in it, you will go back at the end and be able to reread it pretty fluently and go "Wow, I didn't know this word a week ago? I feel like I've seen it 100 times" and you're not likely to forget it.
Wikis will also use words that are not going to be in a normal conversation, but can still be useful to know. Especially if you're studying in another country/want to study in another country, reading things in a "academic" format will help you.
You can also go down a rabbithole with this, once you're done with one article, go to a similar one that will have some of the same words, learn the few words that are new, and keep moving through related articles like that, and its actually amazing when you get to a topic barley related to your original one and you can understand a lot of it. Now this isn't going to take like two days or something, that will never happen learning a language, but depending on your ability to learn languages and the difficulty of the language from your native language, you'll be amazed at how effective this can be.
Woww, thank you for your tips 🎉
Yo thanks a lot you are doing a service to a lot of people. I am glad i found this video! i wish you you good fortune and many blessing
I am definitely a "see it and hear it" person. When coming across new words, especially in conversation, I always ask if they can write the word or phrase down and say it again. I just remember it better that way. I think it also helps me to hear how it's naturally said VS how it sounds on the computer VS how the teacher pronounces it.
Ey very nice video! Love watching your stuff, it's very motivating to see you keeping up with your languages
thanks so much! i’m glad ❤️
Studying words in context... I'm agree with you.
Before I didn't can learn words easily, but now when i ready a book, I can memorizing words in context.
thank you for this video! you're so helpful and encouraging in a genuine way! Te agradezco mucho
This was a super helpful video! What you said with flash cards, with saying to put words in context and not alone. Subscribed!
Awesome! Thank you!
I love your videos, thank you so much for this video❤️
Those tips seems to be a really helpful. Im grateful to hear of them. Some of them are obvious though they not are used by me in everyday life so thanks
Thank you so much for your tips! They sound really useful!! I'll give it a try 😉
These are really good tips Elysse. I especially love the last two. I will definitely implement using output immediately & active recall starting with your native language ❤❤
I'm glad you enjoyed it, I hope they work for you if you use them :)
girl where have you beeeen this is hands down the best advice thank you so much!!! also your french is incredible keep it up :)
This video is worth taking notes. Brilliant just brilliant!
Such a superb presentation, Elysse! Huge thanks.
i’m glad you enjoyed it! hope it helps~
Thanks for the tips it will help me exceed within the two languages I'm currently learn
thank you so much for giving these tips! it's so hard when you've been learning a language at school, and now you don't have a teacher or a students' book, just your mind and the whole internet. it's so confusing - thinking where to start.
I always use Do and Say wherever possible. This the best kind of learning in context
This is super helpful thankyou Elysse!
Outstanding explanation Ely! Thanks for making learning easy and the tiny kitten i just love it.
my pleasure 😇 thanks for watching hehehheeeee
@@elyssespeaks your content deserves to be watched, i'm so excited one day you're going to learn arabic too hehehehe
Danke schön Élysée du hast mich so sehr geholfen im mein Sprachen lernen
Various creative ways to immerse oneself. A long way from the tedious ALM-French I started with WAY back in the day.
This is the first time I've watched one of our videos before. Some good learning tips there.
Welcome to the channel!! i'm glad you liked it :)
Just found your channel and I absolutely love your personality!!!
That’s so sweet! i’m so glad
I NEED this video. Can you tell us how to know if you’re a B2 or a higher level video? (P.S. I’m doing good today).
I’m glad i could help! And i put your suggestion on my list, thanks :)
@@elyssespeaks no thank you! I’ve been watching your videos for a while and they’re all really helpful!
When I moved to NL in the 90s I found myself with limited channels on my TV but would watch the few anglophone shows as a relief. In NL they don't overdub so if in english, thee are subtitles. It was noticing the recurring patterns and their potential usage with a change in tone of voice for social interaction that gave me what I call "icebreaker Dutch" where I could at least make a strong effort in using Dutch before it all eventually reverted to english. It helped me "internalise" the words.
A great tip that works.
that’s awesome! i learned smth about netherlands that i didn’t know before hahaha
Imagine a minha felicidade quando eu descobri meses atrás que aprender vocabulário não era simplesmente pegar uma palavra aleatória, decorar e nunca mais esquecer, lol. Sempre quis aprender outra língua mas por muito e muito tempo eu achava que era simplesmente fazer isso, e no fundo era algo chato demais, por isso sempre desistia dias depois. Vocabulário é a base de tudo, acho que saber como estudar isso da forma mais eficiente possível é a coisa número um mais importante pra aprender um idioma c: Eu uso um método que é basicamente pegar algum texto que me interesse, daí vou lendo e colocando a palavra que desconheço num dicionário conforme leio (Aliás, oq seria de mim se você não tivesse me apresentado Linguee), e depois traduzo a frase inteira ou só um pedaço dela que não entendi muito bem (NÃO com Google tradutor, é outro 😂) e então vou dissecando o texto e tentando ou pesquisando alguma nuance que ainda não entendi totalmente. É algo bem lento realmente, dizem que entender totalmente o texto de uma só vez não é algo necessário, que seria mais importante se expôr à mais palavras desconhecidas do que ficar se prendendo à uma frase só, mas ao menos pra mim sinto que é bem eficiente. Além de que sempre dá pra ajustar isso pra: tentar entender TUDO, inclusive a gramática da sentença, ou apenas tentar entender só as palavras que desconheço.
Essa técnica é muito boa, ainda mais se você estudar a estrutura gramatical junto. Se sua língua escolhida for o inglês te recomendo a extensão Wordology, você basicamente vai add as palavras que você já sabe, e tem a chance de pesquisar as que não sabe, ele vai salvar as que você já colocou em verde, as que não salvou em vermelho e as que precisam ser melhoradas em azul, então quanto mais você usa mais você vai ver os sites com textos todos verdes, daí você vai ter mais noção de como seu vocabulário está.
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izlediğin için teşekkürler!! :)
The final tip is not widely shared but it's extremely helpful👍✨
This is so helpful! Great video 💓💓💓
glad i could help
thank youu so much so helpful 👍👍
Your enunciation is great!, I don’t have to strain to understand what your saying. Thanks.
本当に綺麗！
Thank you for the great advice ❤
Hi there! Thank you very much for the video. I've posted it to my students, and I'm sure they'll benefit from watching it.
Yaaaas Ms. Diazdeneira spreading the good word 😎 so glad to hear that!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing them.
always! :) glad you enjoyed the video
Gracias por este video realmente estoy tratando de aprender japones pero aun ni siquiera puedo entender el Hiragana y Katakana aun estoy en eso pero este video me sirve muchas gracias por subir este video! : D
I’m gonna try to follow this video! I always memorize German words and sentences but I forget them within a week! I’ll try out your methods, thanks for the video!:)
Thank you very much for the much needed tip, memorizing tons of words and sentences is really taxing and irritating when you can't retrieve it when needed 😅
You earned my subscription 🧡
Thank you for this video ❤
This video was awesome! Very unique from any other language learning advice video I’ve seen 💝 thank you!
aww that's so sweet :') i'm glad it helped!!
omg two videos in one week weve been blessed 😍
More to come! :))
I’ll take these advices now that I’m doing my internship as a translator/interpreterish!! Thanks!
Congrats! I hope these come in handy for yaaaa
I am doing well thank you for asking. Also, thank you for making this video. I hope all is well with you.
Hi dear professor.
Thank you so much for your help and advice.
I really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity.
All the best.
Have a good time.
Your follower from Algeria not Nigeria
Thank you very much for this wonderful and important video 🙏🙏🙏❤
it was a pleasure to make it for ya!! glad it helped.
@@elyssespeaks Thanks again, this video helped me as well as the Notion video 🙏🙏
One thing I have found helpful is to look up words in a monolingual dictionary of your target language. Of course, you will often find other words in the definition that you f
don’t know so you look them up and if you still can’t understand then as a last resort. I have several but one that I don’t have with me now also has an example of how each word is used in a sentence. That is very helpful. Sometimes the names of certain things like names of plants you might need pictures to fully understand exactly what it is. You might not know what it is with just a definition.
This is really great video like always
thank youuuu! more to come!
Very helpful and excellent tips. Thank you
I totally agree with you... I am learning french by myself (my 4th language) 2 months ago now is was so difficult but nowadays I am getting much better (I am studying almost 12 hours per day) but I learnt how to do this with the best teacher or youtuber: A.J. HOGE (with him I learnt English in 5 months). I am teaching to my niece English in the same way.... we are gonna get it!!! muchas gracias, thanks, merci... It´s a great video.
i wish you both luck!!:) ❤️
Hey! Can you tell me how did you learn English in 5 months? Some tpis
12 hours a day,....uh huh...
@@TheStrataminor c'est comme ca!!! et maintenant j'ai déjà des conversations avec mes collègues!!!
another tip I recommend is know what kind of learner you are and learn the word mostly using those methods :) love this video btw💫
For sure!! I guess that kinda just went over my head since I forget stuff that seems normal/obvious to me now 😅
Well, learn primarily by that method but actually try to occasionally incorporate different methods as well. I'm a text-based learner in general, and translations and definitions are the best ways for me to remember vocabulary, contrary to visual learning, but I occasionally try to visualize a concept or two.
And translation in general works best for me for remembering both vocabulary and information, it was even a technique I did for preparing for my exams (I'm a linguistics and foreign languages major) - if there was a key point I couldn't remember I translated it into English in my head, or into another language
@@safia9536 look up learning styles. And Veritassium has an interesting video that actually suggests the concept is a myth. Im my learning and teaching experience, the point in Veritassium's video "you are not a visual learner" is actually valid, though, but I wouldn't say learning styles are entirely a myth
@@elyssespeaks What do you mean by 'obvious things go over your head'
Haha I love your funny reactions in your videos&ig stories & ig posts 😀✨
Stephen Krashen is absolutely correct. Frank Smith as well! Thanks for the video
Thank you for your advice!
hey, thanks for watching! 🙏
Amazing, thank you very much.
These are great tips!
Really good content! I'm glad I found your channel.
I’m glad you found me!
@@elyssespeaks me too! Have a good Thanksgiving!
this is something i’ve been struggling with, so this is really helpful!
I'm glad I could help out! good luck with your learning :)
Interesting. Got to try that. ( try in context)
Very useful insights!
glad you think so Alex ~
I'm not on the level to study in my target language yet but when I read a word in my target language, instead of thinking of the English word for it I like to engage my senses. For example, for the french word "fleur" instead of thinking of the word "flower" I think of an actual flower and its touch/smell/feeling associated with it. I think it helps me retain its meaning and even if I forget when I gloss through that word in a sentence I almost always guess what it means
What a dope background music👍
I have been using LingQ for a while now and it is great! I just read and watch Netflix generally and then have conversations in the language. So far I am C1 in Spanish, B2 German, can understand Catalan and can speak more and more each day and I’m learning Italian (hopefully going to study there next year). However, this video has kind of made me realise that I really need to immerse myself more and start using monolingual dictionaries etc. Also the flash card function on Lingopie looks awesome! Having them automatically created makes it much easier because generally spending so much time making flaschards feels like a waste and a drag. I will definitely incorporate these tips into my language learning journey and continue learning more language and making more connections to the wonderful people of the world! Muchas gracias por este video!
all fantastic tips!
glad you think so!
love it❤️
i have task for polyglot people and you’re my task subject so thank you 😁
Thank you for this video, i was on my 120 day streak on duolingo but now switched to Busuu. So much better hahah. I was wondering why after 4 month i could still not have a conversation in spanish. Also lingopie looks really nice.
I've put my whole phone in spanish... that's quite an experience, especially when you are navigating your options menu or reading something in a game, you have to learn how to read in it and you are exposes to it so much more often. I also like to set my social media to follow any sort of tags (like maybe Tumblr or twitter or instagram) that are in my target language, so I see both more often.
Just started this video and I can already tell it’s probably going to be good and I should subscribe because the author appears to be a fellow left-hander.
HA that’s good, hello my brother
The Active recall tip is very valuable
Glad you think so!! it's something I don't see people talk about much
I switched my phone language to German (the language I’m learning) it’s helped significantly. I have a language notebook and it was very unorganised. Your advice has helped! Danke schön:)
Viel Glück beim Lernen! 😊
we would say : “Qu’est-ce que tu EN penses?” To say what do you think? And what are you thinking about would be “à quoi tu penses?” ☺️
Hahaha i was going to write that but it seemed wrong. Won't second-guess myself again!
You are so sweet! Thank you!
My first impression of you was not that great to be honest. But as I heard your voice, OH HOLLY LIKE IT and your talking is also so good. I see you're so interested in the thing you talk about, I see you know a lot about it and so educational 'phrases' and thoughts are being told by you. You speak so friendly and this makes your video's mood so high. I like it! after 10secs of your video, vibe went up so much I just kept watching.
I feel so bad because I was learning languages and was really into it, my native language is spanish but i also speak english and italian and was learning french, but my mother got sick plus i was un the last months of highschool meaning so much homework and tests so i had to put away my journey of learning languages and haven't gotten back to it, but i know i will since i love it so much.
Thank you for the tips! I like to know what do you think about learning many target languages same time? Is it better not to mix the target languages?
Lingopie was a game changer for me. I plan to watch it way more in 2023. I need to cut back paying for all these streaming services lol 😅. Спасибо большое за видео 🙏🏾
HAHAH yeah i hate managing subscriptions but it’s honestly so worth it
Have you also used FluentU and can compare them? Pros or cons fo either/both? ^_^
I find that living in the country where it's spoken is also useful for not forgetting things also
Hi elysse great to see your videos! I'm still new to your channel. Curious to know what languages you speak or currently study? And could you make a video about why you decided to learn those particular ones, why do you identify with them? Thanks :)
Thank you for your tips! Excellent video! The first one I watch and, of course, one more subscriber. 😊 Where can I find this Language Reactor for double subtitles?
I find the tips useful and I'll make sure to use them whenever I can. Do you have any tips on how to learn 100+ words a day? I know that it's not ideal to learn this many but my German teacher doesn't really give me an option...
Merci beaucoup! très utile 🤍
De riennnn ❤️
if your having issues figuring out how to learn new words or wanting to in general, it might be a good idea to translate your favorite pieces of media in the language your trying to learn (with a translator if you don’t feel confident/don’t know many words). you’ll probably remember at least a few words when doing this.
yes itz exactly works!! i did it a few years ago and now im pre intermediate. plus i made a lot of online friends and chatted w em, improved my speaking and grammar.
If you have problems with consistency (like me😢) when it comes to language learning what I do is I made duolingo a widget in my phone it shows me my streaks and I’m more motivated to save the streak because it’s right in front of me . This also insures me that I get at least a little bit of my target language into my brain everyday no matter how busy I am. I’m at a 30 day streak right now and that’s really the longest I’ve ever payed attention to any foreign language
I use duolingo as well. I think it is ok to use if you don't have much time. I write down any sentences that I found hard to translate and study them.