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How do you learn vocabulary and not forget it?
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Let me show you.
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Hello there, my friend.
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This is Keith from the Keith Speaking Academy.
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So listen, how do you learn vocabulary?
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Maybe you just memorise lots of new words.
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Maybe you repeat and recite words.
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Maybe you expose yourself by listening and reading to lots of English.
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All of that is really good, but it's not enough.
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And actually learning vocabulary, there is a very simple way to do it.
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And that is discover, practice and review.
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That's all you need.
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Great.
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What?
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Oh, you want more?
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OK, so this discover, practice and review, it's actually not a line.
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It's more of a circle, right?
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Discover, practice and review.
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Some people think language learning and vocabulary learning is a line that you go along and you get better.
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In fact, some people think it's a bit like shopping.
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Do you know, in a course book, you have a unit on food, a unit on sports, a unit on clothes?
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So some people think, well, that's a bit like shopping.
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So they go to the food shop and they buy different items, the vocabulary, put it in the bag.
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They go to the sport shop, buy some shoes, some different items in the bag.
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They go to the clothes shop and buy the items and put them in the bag and think,
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great, I've gone to all these shops or units in my book and I've got lots of vocabulary.
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Great.
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But the vocabulary is in your bag, not in your head.
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That is the problem.
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And it's because vocabulary is not just a line where you collect all the words.
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The vocabulary that you learn, this circle of discover, practice and review for each word or vocabulary,
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it actually means you've got lots of these little circles developing as you're learning.
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They're getting bigger, they're bouncing, they're changing, sometimes they're crashing, sometimes they're overlapping.
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This discover, practice and review.
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So listen, let me explain to you these three points
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and how they can help you learn vocabulary effectively so you don't forget it.
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Okay, discover.
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This is discovering new words.
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Okay, so maybe you find or discover a new word in a story you're reading, in a video you're watching, or a podcast you're listening to.
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And then you may guess the meaning or go to a dictionary and check.
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So you'll see maybe more examples of the word and you discover its personality.
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What do I mean by personality?
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I mean, first of all, is it a noun, a verb, an adverb, an adjective?
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What does it sound like, the pronunciation?
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Which friends does it have?
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So in the example, you'll see a collocation, at least one collocation, the words that go together with this word.
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So you're discovering all of these aspects of the word.
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What does this mean for you?
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It means it's really important to learn vocabulary in context so you can get this information,
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especially collocations, and you know better how to use the word.
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Secondly, it's important you know how to use a dictionary because sometimes you can't guess the meaning and you have to check.
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And the dictionary can help you get the phonetic script and other examples.
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I think learning vocabulary is a bit like being a detective, right?
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When you come across a new word, you have to think, is it important?
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Is it worth finding out more?
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If the word, you know, you can guess the meaning, it's not very common, you can just let it go.
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But if you see a word you don't know, but it keeps coming up again and again and you don't know the word,
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then it's time to investigate.
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Get your Sherlock Holmes hat on and investigate the word, right?
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Find out the meaning, the pronunciation, all the things that I've mentioned.
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As a minimum, I would say if a word is important, make sure you know one meaning.
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There will be many, but just get the main one you need for the moment.
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the word form, noun, verb, adjective, adverb, the pronunciation, and one collocation.
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And that's enough.
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Over time, remember those little circles, they will grow and you'll learn more about the word over time.
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Don't rush it.
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Language learning is a marathon, right?
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Not a sprint.
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Let's take an example, right?
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And I'll show you through the dictionary what we might do.
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Imagine I've been reading a book and this sentence came up.
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Jane thought the jumper was too expensive, so she decided to shop around.
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OK, I can guess more or less the meaning.
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And I know the word shop as a noun, but here I can see it's a verb.
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So I just go into the Cambridge Dictionary to check.
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Now, I say the Cambridge Dictionary, you can use
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Collins, Merriam -Webster.
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They're all good, right?
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The Oxford Learners Dictionary is good.
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Shop comes up as a noun.
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I knew that.
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But it's also a verb, right?
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To buy things in shops.
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And interesting, the examples.
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I like to shop at secondhand shops.
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I'm shopping for food.
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Okay, so I'm learning a bit more.
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I'll make a note.
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Shop for, that's good to know.
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But I want shop around.
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So that's a phrasal verb, right?
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So I can just actually search for because most dictionaries have phrasal verbs as an entry,
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shop around to compare the price and quality of the same or similar object in different shops.
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So, it's comparing the prices.
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Great.
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Got it.
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Okay.
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I've got the pronunciation, which I can paste and copy.
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I can even listen to it here.
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It's great.
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So, now I'm building up all this information like a criminal record on this word, right?
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That's it, the discover process.
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The second step, practice.
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And this is where you try to use the words, right?
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I mean, it's all well and good having all these new words in your book,
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in your bag, but you need to practice them to learn them more deeply.
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Now, you can practice through writing, through speaking, through just repeating words,
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or better still, all of the above.
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All of those, right?
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Now, there's a very simple technique that I show in my course, my online course, which is the Speaking Success System,
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which is where you change different parts of a sentence.
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So, let's take an example, right?
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For example, I am shopping around for a new jumper.
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Okay.
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Now, I'm going to ask you to repeat that, but to change the noun, okay, to a new noun.
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I'll show you a picture and then you change the word, change the noun.
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I'm shopping around for a new jumper.
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Change new jumper to this.
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I'm shopping around for a new phone.
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Great.
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Now change to this.
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I'm shopping around for a new car.
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Excellent.
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Now change the tense to the past tense.
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I was shopping around for a new car.
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Or it could be I shopped around.
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I shopped around for a new car.
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Right?
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Change to the future.
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I will shop around for a new car.
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Or I'm going to shop around for a new car.
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Could even say I will be shopping around for a new car next week.
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Okay.
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Finally, you could change the person.
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Instead of saying I like to shop around, what about she?
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she likes to shop around okay so through this kind of changing different words vocabulary
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and different tenses you're practicing and practicing and building your flexibility
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and then finally you could just make up little stories
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or make up your own sentences which are true for you right something
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that is true for you i actually hate shopping around but my wife always shops around when we go to buy something.
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It's absolutely true.
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Saying things that are true for you make the language more personal and deeper.
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Your learning is deeper.
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So what does this mean for you?
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Practice, practice, practice.
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That's what it means for you.
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If you're on your own, you can practice like this, repeating.
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If you're, I don't know, with other people or have friends you can practice with in conversation, you can do it or just writing as well.
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Or all of the above.
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Let's move on.
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Okay, part three is review.
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And this basically means getting some kind of feedback so you deepen your understanding of the word.
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There are maybe two main ways to get feedback on your practice of the word and your understanding of the word.
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One is the classic, a teacher or another student corrects you when you make a mistake, right?
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You say, oh, she shop around for new clothes.
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And the teacher says, no, no, no, she shops around.
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Oh, right, got it, right?
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So that's one way of getting feedback.
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You can get feedback from a teacher.
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Actually, you can also get feedback from real life.
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I think this is quite funny.
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Talking about the classroom is not real life.
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Real life is out in the world.
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No, but in the classroom, I'm still alive.
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Yes, but it's not real life.
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But when you're out in the real world, okay, the other real world, I know many of you are living in English speaking countries.
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And when you're out practicing language, you say something and the reaction of the other person,
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the native English speaker, makes you think, oh, something's not right.
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And you often learn from that experience, right?
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For example, shop around.
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Maybe you go to a shop, you speak to the shop assistant and you say something like, well, I like this jumper.
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It's nice, but I'm going to shop around your prices with other shops.
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And the shop assistant goes, what?
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What do you mean shop around our prices?
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You can't shop around our prices.
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And you think, oh, something's not right.
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And you discover, maybe you go and check or you ask and they tell you that you can't shop around prices.
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You shop around for something, but shop around already means comparing price.
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So you can't say shop around your prices.
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So that situation gives you feedback.
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The other way to get feedback is when you expose yourself to English and you're listening to stuff,
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watching videos and reading, and you see the word again and again in different contexts.
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And each time you see the word in a new context, it reinforces your learning and deepens your understanding of how to use it.
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Especially if you're actively noticing that, right?
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Making an effort to notice, oh, shop around.
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I learned that last week and here it is again.
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And just notice how it's used.
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Also, the fact that if you can learn vocabulary not only in reading
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but in listening and watching the different medium help you deepen your understanding
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so that's it it's the review is basically getting the feedback what does this mean for you i think
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it means
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that you must as well as practice is you must expose yourself to the language as much as possible
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so that you can see it in different see that the word in different contexts and different situations and deepen your learning.
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If you can get a teacher to give you feedback, that could be useful.
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Teacher correction is not always the best way because, as teachers know, students often don't listen to correction.
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They just carry on.
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So correcting only works if the student is ready, right?
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But there are other ways to get the feedback and reviewing
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and exposing yourself to the language is a great way to do it.
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Great, so there it is.
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Discover, practice and review.
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This cycle, when you're learning vocabulary, it's going on and on.
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And I think being aware of that and trying to do this is really useful.
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I guess one of the key messages is that when learning vocabulary,
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to not forget it, try and see or hear vocabulary in as many different ways as possible,
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different contexts, and try and use it in lots of different ways as well.
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This methodology, if you like, is a simplified version of the methodology I use in my online course,
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IELTS Speaking Success, Get a Band 7 Plus Gold.
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The methodology is the speaking success system, and it's a way that I use to help students learn vocabulary so they don't forget it.
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What they do is that they discover the language through the model answers in the course.
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They're then practicing chunks.
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like changing different parts of the sentence with recorded videos.
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And I'm giving them prompts and the answer as well.
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They can practice in breakout rooms.
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So that's real -time breakout rooms online with other students in very small groups.
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And they can review the language with quizzes.
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We have mini stories to help see the language in different contexts.
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All of that to help you learn vocabulary so that you don't forget it.
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Do remember, it takes time, right?
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It's not a line that you accumulate.
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It's not shopping.
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It's building up all these little circles over time with patience and practice.
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So be patient, be curious, notice things, and remember to be a detective.
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You have to decide if it's worth investigating a word,
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and then how best to investigate the word so you can learn about it in a deep way.
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Nice.
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Listen, if you've enjoyed this video, please do subscribe and turn on notifications.
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And if you like this, then I think you should watch the next video coming up, which will show you how to think in English.
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Oh, and by the way, if you want a summary of this with some extra examples
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so you can start practicing and developing this habit to help you learn vocabulary and not forget it.
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Download this free PDF.
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Just click on the link in the description below.
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resources, and other things that will help you on your journey to learn English, develop your speaking skills.
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And if you're studying IELTS, ace the IELTS speaking test.
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Take care, my friend.
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Bye -bye.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “How to Learn Vocabulary and Not Forget It”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: shop, word, vocabulary, practice, learn. Questo video contiene 238 frasi e 2386 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 16:55. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 141 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 87% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è facile da seguire.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| vocabulary sostantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabolario |
| discover verbo | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | scoprire, trovare |
| feedback sostantivo | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | valutazione, riscontro |
| dictionary sostantivo | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | dizionario, lessico |
| noun sostantivo | /naʊn/ | sostantivo, nome sostantivo |
| verb sostantivo | /vɝb/ | verbo |
| jumper sostantivo | /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/ | maglione, pullover |
| investigate verbo | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/ | investigare, indagare |
| expose verbo | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | esporre, evidenziare |
| pronunciation sostantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronuncia, pronunzia |
| compare verbo | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | paragonare |
| cloth sostantivo | /klɒθ/ | stoffa, tessuto |
| tense sostantivo | /tɛns/ | tempo |
| methodology sostantivo | /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | metodologia |
| detective sostantivo | /dɪˈtɛktɪv/ | investigatore |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| come up verbo | venire fuori, emergere | |
| build up verbo | accumulare | |
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | comporsi |
| come across verbo | dare l'impressione, avere l'aria |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- How do you learn vocabulary and not forget it?
- What do I mean by personality?
- What does this mean for you?
- Let's take an example, right?
- What do you mean shop around our prices?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've gone · I've mentioned · you've enjoyed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | course, which is · sentences which are |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 57 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, I'm, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, correction /kəˈɹɛkʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shoe /ˈʃu/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, secondhand /ˌsɛk(ə)n(d)ˈhænd/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/, verb /vɝb/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, cloth /klɒθ/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/, aspect /ˈæspɛkt/, habit /ˈhæb.ɪt/, actively /ˈæktɪvli/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come vocabulary, discover, feedback.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.