How To Learn Vocabulary With and Without Flashcards
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
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Vocabulary growth is key to acquiring a language. In this video I show how I do this. Spoiler, I'm not a big user of flash cards. I learn words in context, or occasionally using lists.
0:00 Vocabulary is the key to learning a new language.
2:02 You will forget and relearn vocabulary over and over.
3:24 It is vital to learn vocabulary using meaningful content, whatever that means to you.
5:54 A step by step guide on how I learn vocabulary at LingQ.
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Speak english for 47 years, have read thousands of books. Still didn't know there were two words: discrete and discreet.
huh, always thought those were spelled the same way. The more you know
There you go... I thought the exact same thing
@@maple8859 not everybody is a genius like you bub. Everyone, bow before this genius, who remembers how words are spelled because he took a math class. We mortals don't deserve to share the earth with such a god among men
Many native speakers don't know either. I know there are two words but never quite sure which is which :o)
Excited to acquire and add them to my list of homophones.
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I review vocabulary no more since I've realized I remember words when I have encountered them enough times in different contexts. I used to make vocabulary lists but I had so many words that it was impossible to review all of them. Maybe it makes sense when you are pretty advanced and want to improve in a very specific type of vocabulary.
Learning to recognize Chinese characters, flashcards will make it faster.
i forget most of the new words I read in texts. flashcards help me a lot at the beginning, until I reach certain level and after that I don´t do them anymore
try using anki! it's quite good for spaced repetition approach. also it's got lots of extensions for chinese characters, japanese furigana and so on
Based on my experience I believe that rather than remembering the definition, when you reecounter a word, try to remember moments when you previously encountered it. Doing that gives more meaning to the word rather than just memorizing the bilingual definition.
Exactly how I formed a vocabulary base in Greek. It used to be very solid. I used to know exactly where I encountered every word.
@@alexandra.v Exactly! Remembering the moments of the word rather than the definition/explanation makes you actually KNOW your vocabulary. You don't learn words, you experience words.
It's totally interesting that you say that. I agree. That's why there are some words that I know that I don't really know how to translate. I just know that when this situation comes up, they say this thing "___________".
@@alexandra.v sir sir, I do hope that ye are learning Ancient Greek and Byzantine Greek instead of current mordern Greek. .. . .??? Those are much much more important than currentversion of the Greek language.
@@entelektuel.yolculuk Firstly, I am a girl. Secondly, I learned a bit of Ancient Greek in college but it was very hard. I don't think the ancient and byzantine versions are directly important today. I agree they are useful for reading old texts and for the history of the language, but they are not in use today. The versions you mentioned can be learned more for intellectual pleasure than to be actually used.
I learned mostly of my vocabulary with flash cards and I still doing it, your a great motivation with this kind of videos thanks Steve.
Thank you. Been definitely struggling with how to approach this topic lately
I Appreciate your work sir in helping us to become a better English speaker as a non native speaker. Greetings from Indonesia
I like your "getting familiar" with the language idea. You put a name to what I think too. I tell people that want to learn another language to listen to popular music of the country and maybe watch TV show in that language. I tell them to not worry if they understand it, just start to get the feel for how it works. I speak Spanish quite well and I speak "tourist" level in a few other languages. That's why some people ask me how I did it.
Very useful. Thanks!
You're the king of the vocabulary! 🌈🖋️🖊️☀️
Eita que esse vídeo apareceu na hora certa, thank you!
Thanks. I still use Anki. Thank you for showing us how you study.
Hi Steve，
Hello from California.
Thank you so much for making this video to show us how do you learn vocabulary.
I was very impressed by the iPad application you use which can show the English meaning and pronunciation immediately for each single Turkish word automatically. What is that？
And if you make another similar video next time，can you use Chinese or Japanese as material please？
Thank you again.
Flashcards have never worked for me. In fact, I would forget even more with flash cards what helps me is big bold print, repeating, and visualizing without looking at notes.
Would you perhaps help me with that? Flashcards also don't work for me and I'd like to learn more vocab
I´m the opposite. Flashcards and lists help me make connections. Going into texts with lots of unknown words kindda stresses me and I can´t do it for long. With flashcards, I can do 200 words and have fun going through them, using mnemonics if needed, or comparing to other words I know in other languages.
Desde haberle escuchado en español y afirmado que autoaprecia su conocimiento como en un quinto lugar(!) , sigo todos sus videos ...Soy profesora de español en Israel. Este es un país que tiene hablantes de casi todas las luengas del mundo por ser el destino y la patria de todas las diásporas judías del mundo. El español también es hablado por una gran parte de la población ( incluyendo en su versión antigua "ladino" la cual trajeron los descendientes de los expulsados de España 1492). Me dirijo a Ud. primero para felicitarlo por sus hazañas lingüísticas y segundo para pedirle el más importante consejo que me pueda dar para aplicarlo con mis alumnos que a veces ni después de tres años consigo puedan expresarse. Muchísimas gracias por cualquier respuesta que reciba, lo aprecio y valoro mucho .
Good point !
5:20
The Kaufmann family genes must be special, producing people as talented as Steve, Eric and Mark!
Great content. Ty. What do you think about using music lyrics for vocabulary and language learning?
the thing is... learning it your way is confined... to the content that's available within the little bubble. But the logic is a top notch one, review the thing again and again with highlighted words and phrases... To me, my biggest problem is, i seldom review the things i learnt coz... I am interested in so many things... I would rather watch something new, then someday, I realized that I could have one thing one content that I would study every day, and for others, I just leave it the way it is.
Would love to see your study routine
Hello Steve, I am new to your channel. My wife and are American retirees living in Italy. We moved to Italy last March. I am fascinated by your style of learning. I have several questions for you….1) how can I get started 2) is there a way for me to access to your Italian library? I have been using traditional method so far about learning Italian like flash card, memorization and etc.. any help would be great…. P.s. I speak Persian and Turkish already.
I had a terrible memory when it came to studying when I was younger! My mom tried different methods but the one that stuck was the large printed notes, the repeating, and the visualizing while resisting to look at notes every 10 minutes and let the brain get it. This, sounds easy but it’s harder than what it sounds like. It takes a lot of time for the mind to build up these networks but slowly and surely, remembering gets easier. I started at 13 now 32 but even if I can’t picture how a word is spelled I can hear how it is supposed to sound in my head.
Note: This doesn’t mean I don’t forget words but increases the chance of recall coming back sooner.
Assimil really works wonderfully. Highly recommended.
Me too. I'm not a fan of flashcards. Ironically, I also learn Turkish like you, Sir Steve. 😄
I refreshed my mind from the digital technology app like Duolingo and Mondly. A lot of strategies other than flashcards that I used which is reviewing the sentence of the structures from the text/essay.
Your channel of learning new languages are, and will, be fruitful to the International Relations' background like me, and also people who loves to learn a new culture!
I would like to see more from your style of studying in listening the language, in a quick way, in order you know their native style of speaking.
Also, how do you practice speaking new language in unconsciously manner of your daily life? In dialogue and independent speech.
De Colombia Muchas gracias
I love flash cards in fact I think it's the only reliable way to know if I've retained a word
If I use context it's like cheating. Flash cards is the only way for me to really test if I can recall a word and at the speed I can summon it. I love them. It's how I've learned all my languages mostly. It shows me what word I have high fluency with and which ones I need to incorporate in my sentences and work on. Obviously I have to do other things also.
Same here. I did lvl A1 in French, learning the vocab systematically but not going back to my notebook once I felt I learned the words. Then I went back after 6 months and it turned out I had forgotten 50% of the words. 'Unacceptable!,' I thought to myself and proceeded to copy all my forgotten words to Anki. That was a month ago and since then I have been reviewing my vocab daily, 30 minutes a day. Suddenly, I am much more confident in my speaking, I don't have to read a ton of books to encounter specific words and overall I feel like I'm making great progress. Sure it's boring, but the satisfaction more than makes up for it.
@@chrolka6255 that's great
I also like them. Plus, I usually don't just put single words on the flashcards but rather whole sentences. So, I do see in the words in phrases and context. I feel like it's helping me
But for some languages -like Portuguese- I never used any flashcards simply because I could already read texts so well due to my knowledge of Spanish and Italian. So I just read stuff on lingq and elsewhere
You are an amazing language teacher Steve. Thank you
Thank you.
He doesn’t teach!
@@colinlyne8688 Teacher doesn't just mean teaching something in front of class.
@@beckezizou A teacher is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge . He doesn’t. He only tells people how he acquired his languages, and sells his app.
@@colinlyne8688 do you really watch his videos? He teaches every kind of perfect styles about how to learn languages. This makes him also a teacher. He doesnt need any diploma. Plus my father is school teacher. So lets not discuss who is teacher and who isnt.
Steve, I’m just exited by your willingness to acquire languages. Which factors let your motivation to be strong all the time?
He loves it! Also I think the more we practice and see our progress, the more pleasure it brings.
The culture, the joy of discovering how another language works, the chance to communicate with people that I know little about.
For me new vocabulary stick my mind when I saw it in different context
Hi Steve! I recently decided to pick up LingQ and so far it's been exactly the sort of system my mind loves to work with. I'm very excited to be getting back into Japanese after I fell out of study following my abrupt return from the beautiful country. I am wondering if you have any particularly helpful methods on kanji learning however. I know that you've done several videos on the matter and I do know that you learned the characters in a very different context but is it in fact the sort of thing that may, for example, be served by Heisig and his Remembering the Kanji books with SRS or is instead the sort of thing that you think is best done by simply exposure as well? I find the multiple readings to be one of the more challenging parts of the language and engaging with it more again is somewhat helpful but it's one of the matters which I stumble most over and am therefore curious if you or others have any more specific ideas?
Thank you!
SRS, Heisig, some kind of memory system is highly useful for learning Chinese characters, at least for the first 1000 or so.
I'm learning kanji right now too! Heisig's books are quite good. The tool I'm using is WaniKani, which has Heisig-style mnemonics in SRS decks with pronunciation and usage examples. They also teach vocab alongside the characters, which gives them more context.
@@elfchild9 I have some friends who had pretty good success with Wanikani but I completely forgot about it. Thank you for mentioning it!
That’s very useful video. May I know what app that you use to learn many languages? Or your advice on which apps that you prefer? I’m interested to learn Russian but I’m a bit lost about how can I advance in learning. Thank you
LingQ
I am your student. thanks sir
I do use flashcard apps but the key difference is I try to associate imagery with the words whenever I can instead of one word with another. We think visually first and then verbally. The apps are they excellent for introducing yourself to words or word sets and then you go out and find the context that you want to have for a particular word. For example I know I'm going to cook, so I'll review word sets for objects around the kitchen and review visually. Or you create that context by trying to make a sentence surrounding that word. I know that flashcards do work because I can watch a show in my target language and will recognize words from my flash card sessions. You've got to rely on your brain to make those connections.
What are you studying?
I still would like to see my known words on the Lingq-Widget like before.
nice video
¿Diría que su manera preferido para repasar vocabulario es pasivo en vez de activo?
the podcast link in your description didn't work, but I was able to find you on Google Podcast when I searched by your name.
Thank you for showing what LingQ is like in Turkish!! This has peaked my interest in trying the app. Are there stories or conversations to listen to for A1 level?
Great question! I hope this helps: in short no, but, within the app there are different levels of difficulty, beginner, beginner 1, beginner 2, intermediate 1, intermediate 2, advanced 1, advanced 2. The way you level up through these is your known word count. Beginner is 0-499, beginner 1 is 500-1,499, beginner 2 is 1,500-5,999, intermediate 1 is 6,000-10,999, intermediate 2 is 11,000-19,999, advanced 1 starts at 20,000 but I don’t know when you achieve advanced 2. If you’re A1 fluent, depending on the inflection within your target language you’ll know more or less words and you quickly work your way into one of the existing levels within the app, and of course each level has a different difficulty in the content you get exposure to
Yes! Every language on lingq has 60 mini stories and other beginner that you can slowly go through even if you don’t know anything
How are people using the different statuses on LingQ? I’ve made up rules for myself that work for me: I increase in status every time I recognize the word in context (but no more than once per session), and decrease when I had to peak at the translation. Do you all generally just keep everything yellow, or do you do something similar?
I don't know if this only happens to me but I usually recall a certain word when I see it in flashcards and when I listen to it I totally forget it, basically when I watch tv shows. I don't recognize right away.
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As you're reviewing vocabulary, how do you deal with the various verb conjugations/tenses of the same word (i.e., "I speak", "you speak", "they speak", etc.). Do you consider them separate words and only move them to known on their own merit or do you group them together in a sense and move them all to "Known" once you are fairly confident you know what they mean. For example, I can understand that a word means "to speak" but may not necessarily get the correct conjugation.
I keep them separate. Some forms of verbs, or nouns and adjectives in languages with complicated declension, seem to click in sooner than others.
@@Thelinguist Thank you for the clarification!
@@Thelinguist AJATT refers to this as the "flat" approach, and it's the approach he recommends. Because of people like you and him, I'm experimenting with that approach in my current language.
pimsleur method with anki works best for me
You save the Pimsleur audio files and implement them into Anki?
Do you support speed reading?
How are stati of words changed? In more detail, HOW are colours changed from blue to dark-yellow to light-yellow to white? Has this to be done manually by the learner or is this done by LingQ automatically? Thanks.
faça mais videos em português.
Steve - could you show more of how you utilise sentence linking and the tagging feature. Could you show this for Russian language ? I personally use the tags for genders and cases
If you mean LingQing or saving phrases. I do that regularly just be dragging my cursor across the phrase I want. LingQ also suggest phrases for you to save. Tags can be used to save lists that are of interest to you, certain parts of speech , technical terms etc.
@@Thelinguist Thanks Steve - yes I do this particularly often in the mini stories. It just might be worth doing a video on this. Russian is my very first language I have learned - I would even be happy to do a video with you of my journey sometime. I now know 8,000 words. LingQ has changed my approach to language learning :). I am so grateful
@@razorrabone4098 день добрый. Вы используете платную версию?
@@irinak.1465 доброе утро 😃🌞 да точно
olá Steve, como vai? eu tenho uma pergunta: quando se está estudando, há algum momento em que se torna extremamente difícil à ponto de se perguntar "ok isto não é pra mim", ou isso seria apenas sentir-se desmotivado? pois estudar outra língua, requer tempo, qual a sua opinião?
Às vezes perdemos a motivação. É melhor deixar o idioma, ou até mesmo começar a estudar outro idioma até que a motivação volte. Ou você pode escolher uma nova fonte de conteúdo de idioma, que seja mais interessante para você.
I’ve noticed some people on the platform seem to get to 10k - 15k words very quickly. In one particular language I’m almost at 6k, and I’ve consumed a lot of material. Granted, some languages with noun declension and many verb forms are likely the reason versus a language with little to none of those features.
Usually it's languages that have a lot words similar to words in languages we know where the known words grow quickly.
Steve, I live in Ontario and have a very advanced level of Turkish. I will be happy to save time to practice Turkish, if you want.
I have put Turkish on the back burner for now to focus on Arabic and Persian, to get used to the writing system. It's slow going since I'm also confusing myself by listening to Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Egyptian Arabic. But I'm enjoying it. I will get back to Turkish later. Thank you very much though.
Flash cards are painfully boring. I can only do a few minutes at a time. It’s like watching paint dry.
Thanks Steve, are there any video tutorials on how to use linq if you are just starting out? Looks very useful but not sure where to begin with the application. Thanks (^_^)
The Lingq App has a UA-cam channel itself.
You can search in YT by "How to ..... in LingQ" as well and most of the time you'll get an explanation or tutorial.
Also, if you are fluent in Spanish, the YT channel "El Jardín de Martín" has a fantastic tutorial on how to start and to get the best from the App, but it's in Spanish.
try this as well ua-cam.com/video/1bF307-WC2M/v-deo.html
On importing. ua-cam.com/video/VFoVoZtQDdM/v-deo.html
I use Duolingo for French, I started from a B2 level. I often find that I forget words encountered in Duolingo and I think this is because it only exposes me to them over a couple of days, hence they stay in short term memory. I now make more of a conscious attempt to learn words with flash cards. I like to make up sentences using the words. Thus “Je suis sorti de la cabine d’essayage” and “La chemise n’était pas de la bonne taille”, that way I practice the whole shooting match, and I leave a day between retries, then go onto other words, and come back to earlier ones later to double check they are in my long term memory. I am trying Mosalingua for German (I am a total beginner) and thus far it seems better than Duolingo. I have spent a few weeks on basic German with Duolingo, and it is driving me potty, their method is horrible. Repeat the same words countless times over 15 minutes, do the same the next say. Having to repeat “Hallo” and “Die Mutter und der Junge” 20 times or more, and translate back and forth, is borrrrrrriiiiinnngggg and surely pointless.
I use App LinQ and speakly for German. First for Lisening and reading. Second for vocabulary. I Use Duolingo too but it good just for start vocab. And they did new design which suck because it become worse.
Anki > duolingo
@@Tue-so2ls Nine months later, and my opinion is that Duolingo is awful. Babbel is much better as an introduction. I completed the Babbel German course, I’m now using LingQ and Anki. I don’t yet have a view on LingQ. It’s good, but it has bugs.
@@LA-wv6jo Yup, since November 2022 Duolingo is atrocious,
Early on, 3 exposures to a word is helpful. Each I'll read/listen to the 2 previous day's material, plus new material, so I see each lesson 3 times. It seems to help a lot.. Later on flashcards are super helpful, but never isolated words. I copy-paste or record a sentence or two from what I'm reading/listeing. So there's always strong context, no racking of your brain necessary. And not just new vocabulary, but also phrases I find interesting (I put in a separate anki deck). It's a way of artificially inducing repetition into your language study without having to read the same novel twice.
Hey...i just wanted to say you are awesome! when i was in the first years of highschool, i used to tell my friends and to my teachers that i want to learn 7+ languages, they would laugh. (Now i see, i wanted to be a polyglot as you are) i really love learning new things and its my passion. Now im 18 and preparing for university (for being an english teacher)
"One who dares to teach
Must never cease to learn"
and i will never stop learning languages...i wish i can be like you one day^^ i will learn french,italian,spanish and katakana&hiragana this summer. (Well maybe all of them not possible at once but i cant help myself😂😂even thinking it is exciting!!! You inspire me a lot!!! Lots of love from Turkeyyy....harikasınız...
Seems like you emphasise input-based learning ( language)? Does that mran that speaking and writing come later?
I have so many words that i collected on Google translator but i can't memorize them all how?🤔
Hi Steve, I’m a B2-C1 English learner. There are some books well-organized for EFL to learn vocabulary such as “Vocabulary in use” series. They divide vocabulary into different topics and provide some content. How do you think about this kind of books? Are they better compared to taking notes on any word that I don’t know when reading news or watching clips?
Hello Andy. I think when it comes to English it is more fun acquire new words by compelling input since there are so many resources. However, if you feel that you have a soft spot for textbooks go for it. It might be a corny answer but we do more of things which we like. In my case, integrating things I enjoy doing into my language learning helped a lot.
in my case, once I reach a certain level I don't grind vocabulary anymore and acquire it from context as I would do in my L1. if it's important vocabulary that you need for work, you could simply quickly go through it, just to introduce it to your "brain".
when I was 17, I was C1/C2 in english. one day I was on my way for the last test of the year when I found out there was a vocabulary list in the book that I was supposed to know. I didn't even know it existed. on the bus, in 15 min, I quickly had a look at all the vocabulary pages and still managed to learn all the unkown words. it only worked because it was extremely easy to make connections with the thousands of words I already knew.
If I do that being B1 I'm screwed.
You still make a lot of grammatical mistakes. Focus on reading and listening, you shouldn't cram vocabulary unless you're a beginner.
I love using LingQ for spanish and russian is my next goal. It's so fun to use!
Is it possible to have flash cards in the app with full sentences that include the word I don't know to get the meaning rather than the 1:1 translation?
If you save phrases in which the important words you want to learn are included in, you could just review those
There is a limit on the number of words you can save as a phrase. I can't remember what it was. However, suggest you focus on phrases, they are more likely to repeat than long sentences.
okey Steve
Hey Mr. Kaufmann, is your book "the linguist" translated into arabic or ukranian? I would like to read it in those language so if it is, where could i find it?
I don't think so.
@@Thelinguist Thanks
Hello Steve,
I have a question about present perfect.
Next sentence:
*I've just known Olivia for years.*
Is that action started in the past and continuing in the present or action completed?
Don't complicate things. That sentence is not logical in English. I have no idea what the present perfect is. Just try to get used to the language as it is used, without all the grammar terms. I've known Olivia for years. I know Olivia. I have known her for a long time. When there is a word or phrase qualifying something you are doing in the present you throw in the "have" and the past tense. He likes rice. He has liked rice since he was a child. I'm learning English. I have been learning English for a long time. You can't use "just" for something that is ongoing.
@@Thelinguist Thanks a lot for detailed answer 🥰
Native English speaker and never knew there were 2 words for discreet 😳
Steve Kaufmann the best
What about learning vocab for real estate it’s like I got to know 200+ for the test but won’t use most of them again it’s stressful
Import relevant content on the subject into LingQ for study. Also find podcasts to listen to. It's just exposure.
For the algorithm
please add thai to lingq 😓 people have been waiting for over 10 years
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I’ve been studying Portuguese for over 7.5 years now and I have visited Brazil 18 times but I still can’t converse, read or understand what people are saying without translating everything into English, even the words that I know need to be translated. I study and practice every day. I practice with my girlfriend every day for 1-3 hours and she only speaks Portuguese but I still can’t understand her except for an occasional word. The Portuguese words don’t mean anything to me yet like English words do. I need to find a way to learn without translating everything. I can’t tell what the context is because I have to translate everything word for word. How can I learn? Thanks
@ilia electronic What does it mean to think in another language? I don’t think in any language now, maybe that’s a clue. I think in ideas and images like I’m watching a movie. If I don’t translate I don’t understand. I need to find a way to learn without translating so I can converse. Thanks!
Work on your listening comprehension. If you have that the rest will come, slowly.
@@Thelinguist everything sounds like gibberish except for an occasional word and then I have to translate those into English. I watch movies and UA-cam videos and practice with my girlfriend. I’ll keep trying. I’ve been practicing for years and I still can’t converse yet which has me worried. Thanks
@@Thelinguist I’m down here near the original Vancouver in Washington state. Keep up the good work.
@@patfromamboy If you are listening to stuff that you don't understand at least over 50% of the sentences and 70% of the words then you are not actually PRACTISING, you're frustrating yourself... at least that's my case.
Don't hesitate to go to very simple, slow materials where you can understand most and then adding more advanced contents.
P.S.: Please take my numbers with a grain of salt. The important think is that you feel that you understood something, so you want to read the text of the audio after...if the activity makes you enthusiast, then is a good practice
Great tip stop wrecking your brain and be patient and just enjoy the process and view flashcards as another form of exposure since it's all about a journey/process of exposure
I hate flashcards. Soooo boring.