Name: Methods To Help Remembering New Words Quickly
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Welcome back to ask Alicia the Weekly Siri's where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe first question this week comes from Sergei.

What message would you recommend to remember English words as fast as possible and for a long time, thanks.

Ah, I would suggest that you begin using the words right away.

So I imagine many learners have a vocabulary list.

Ah, maybe it's a digital list or a list you write by hand.

When you learn a new word, begin using the word right away.

So I don't mean like reading the word or learning the spelling of the word.

That's great, but start making sentences with the words.

So write a sentence and then say the sentence out loud.

And then maybe at the end of the same day, read the sentence again.

Maybe make a new sentence using the same word.

Try to say the previous day sentence again.

Very important is to actually like to create something with the new words that you're learning.

So you do this, you know every day, and then a few days later, you refresh the word.

Refresh your memory a lot as you learn new vocabulary words.

But then you also need to get used to using those words in your everyday life.

So try to maybe make a list, or like a group of words you want to focus on for like, one week or two weeks at a time.

And so you practise that group of words like every day, or you make up a study plan to focus on this group of words for this month or something like that.

So do that with those words that you really, really want to use.

Maybe they're words that are extremely important to your everyday life.

Like your studies or your work or maybe a hobby, for example.

So I would suggest doing that, um, and spacing out your repetition to do that.

So if you want a tool that can help you to do this kind of thing Ah, there are spaced repetition systems like spaced repetition, flashcard tools, very popular.

One is a tool called monkey s so you can download like vocabulary word, Dex, groups of vocabulary words and study those and the software or the system will automatically tell you when is the next time to study.

So you finished your study session and then later, a few hours later, or a day later or something, you can study the same words again, and it will remember how well you did the previous time.

Ah, how often you see your vocabulary words and helps you refresh things at a good pace for your studies and for your like your memory.

So I hope that this helps you to understand new vocabulary words and to be able to remember them for a long time.

Okay, let's move on to your next question.

Next question this week comes from Mellie.

This maybe means if I can or you ask plenty of questions.

And I picked randomly, so maybe I can or I can't pick yours.

The reason that I chose that beginning the US questions and I answer them.

Maybe I chose that introduction for both of those reasons.

So one is actually I don't know for sure if I answered your question.

So sometimes viewers send a question, and maybe I don't completely understand what they want to know.

Or maybe my answer doesn't give them 100% of the information.

So I hope I try my best to answer the questions completely, but I don't know for sure that I've answered the viewer's question.

I don't know for sure that I've answered your questions so that's one.

That's one reason why I say maybe at the beginning of the video.

The second reason, as he said, is because there are lots of questions that get sense to us for this series.

So sometimes the questions are like very common questions.

So we get, for example, lots of questions about how to use present perfect tense, or we get lots of questions about how to use, have and had or would couldn't should those words.

So because there are so many questions like that, I might not choose your question about that topic.

I tried to choose questions that I hope can be like, new and interesting and helpful for lots of people who are watching the channel, not just for that one person.

So that's one reason also, there are some questions that are very, very specific.

Some people send questions that air, maybe about one specific sentence.

And so for other people, maybe it's not so helpful.

So I'm trying to choose questions that are good for everybody.

So that's the second reason why I say maybe I might not choose the question that you send, even if you do send it.

But yes, there are those two reasons why I say maybe at the beginning to every video in this series, So I hope that that helps you.

Okay, let's move on to your next question this week.

Next question for this week comes from Komei.

What is the difference between ongoing and in progress?

Ongoing is an adjective we can place ongoing before the noun that it modifies.

We can also place on going after the noun that it modifies, but we connect the two with is some examples.

This project is ongoing in progress, on the other hand, is not an adjective.

It's in a proposition and progress a noun.

So progress means like movement forward or some kind of improvement.

That's what progress means so we can imagine in progress to mean, like in the condition of making progress.

So that's kind of like a a long way to say this small phrase in progress in the conditioner in the state of making forward progress.

So we tend to use this after the noun that it modifies.

So some examples of this construction is in progress on our office building.

This project is a work in progress, so I hope that helps you understand the differences between ongoing and in progress.