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  • Hey everyone welcome to the monthly review the monthly show on language

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  • speaking in minutes okay today's topic is technology meets

  • technique the 7 tested timeless ways to learn a language what's the best way to

  • learn a language when you first started learning the language you probably

  • thought about this there are a ton of study methods but do they all work and

  • are they worth your time in today's episode you're going to learn number 1

  • the 7 tested learning techniques and number 2 the technologies that you can

  • use for each one but first listen up here are this month's new lessons and

  • resources first the brand new must know bow cab and phrases for food ebook if

  • you love eating and learning languages and want to talk about food fluently

  • then you'll love this new PDF ebook download it right now

  • next the how's the weather PDF cheat sheet if you can't yet talk about

  • weather in your target language then you're missing out download this cheat

  • sheet to start speaking more then there's the top 15 ways to improve your

  • listening skills discover the language learning hacks and tricks that will

  • improve your listening skills in minutes and finally learn how to express

  • negative emotions with this one-minute lesson you master the top 21 words for

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  • let's jump into today's topic technology meets techniques the 7 tested timeless

  • ways to learn a language so for each of the 7 you get a learning technique and

  • the technology this technology will help you learn how to apply the technique

  • these learning methods and tools will help you get fluent faster guaranteed

  • alright the first learning technique here is having talking points and the

  • technology for it vocabulary lists so one big problem most

  • beginners have is you run out of things to say your vocabulary is limited you

  • can't talk about your interests and you can't last long in a conversation and

  • the solution talking points or topics to talk about like whether food or hobbies

  • just imagine a conversation you start with greetings you move on to what you

  • did over the weekend weekend that's one talking point you went to a

  • restaurant that's another talking point you can explore if you know all the

  • words and phrases for these points you can speak more of the language so how do

  • you build a list of talking points use our free vocab lists our vocab lists

  • give you all of the relevant words and phrases for specific topics sports

  • travel food hobbies holidays daily routines if you want to talk about food

  • pull up the relevant vocab lists and you'll quickly learn all the necessary

  • words phrases and questions now you can use food as a talking point in a

  • conversation then you can jump over to weather or sports the more talking

  • points you have the more you'll be able to speak number 2 shadowing a powerful

  • way to speak more of the language the technology here is the line by line

  • dialogue shadowing is simply repeating what you hear you can apply this

  • technique with any resource that has audio but if you're using our lessons

  • listen to a lesson dialogue read along and try to read out loud and shadow the

  • native speaker this is a proven technique that will seriously improve

  • your speaking and the line-by-line dialogue tool makes it easy for you to

  • listen and shadow one line at a time this way you're not overwhelmed by a

  • fast native level conversation okay technique number three building your own

  • language profile the technology you'll want for this is the word bank first

  • what's a language profile a language profile is your personal list of words

  • and phrases that are relevant to you what do I mean by that let's say you're

  • 20 years old you'll want to talk about school your life your goals your weekend

  • plans you'll want to learn slang and if you're 40 you don't want to talk about

  • school right you may want to talk about your kids your work and vacations so a

  • language learning profile is a list of words and phrases relevant to you your

  • age where you're from your culture your interests and your passions if you're

  • passionate about baseball then your profile would have a list of words and

  • phrases about the sport so how do you build a profile if you're using our site

  • use the word bank this is your personal collection of words when you come across

  • new words or phrases in our lessons or vocab lists you can save them to the

  • word bank and the result is you have a collection of words and phrases that

  • match your interests and lifestyle your language learning profile number four

  • spaced repetition learning a great way to learn new words fast the technology

  • that helps you apply this method is flashcards

  • but first what spaced repetition learning imagine you're sitting in front

  • of a teacher they're quizzing you on vocabulary by showing you flashcards

  • with the word on the front and the answer on the back if you don't know a

  • word you'll see it again today and tomorrow and again and again until you

  • get it right but if you get it right you'll see it maybe in four days then

  • seven days then in 14 days that's how spaced repetition works you review words

  • over a spaced amount of time so you never forget them this is a powerful

  • method for memorizing new vocab and phrases but you don't have to sort words

  • and force yourself to review at later dates that's where the technology comes

  • in the flashcards if you're using our website just head over to our space

  • repetition of flashcards to take advantage of this learning method

  • the fifth technique focus on the high frequency words or the most common words

  • first the technology the mm core word lists a list of the mm must know words

  • and phrases so why is this technique powerful well the fact is there are tons

  • of words out there that you don't need to know if you're a beginner you need to

  • learn hello and how are you and not random words like aardvark and cement

  • and with the mm core word list you get 2,000 carefully selected words and

  • phrases broken down by category and this is more than enough for conversational

  • fluency you can learn the top 100 words first then the top 200 300 and so on

  • until you know them all remember you can use flashcards or the word bank to study

  • them number six learning with timely relevant and

  • cultural lessons the technology the free daily dose of language app for the

  • iPhone iPad and Android let's say today is a holiday like Valentine's Day or

  • something seasonal like the start of spring something everyone knows and

  • talks about can you talk about it in your target language the truth is most

  • learners can't they're not getting timely relevant lessons from their

  • textbooks or apps but with a daily dose of language app you get timely lessons

  • holiday lessons and cultural lessons to improve your language and if you can

  • talk to a native speaker about a holiday or a cultural point you're making some

  • serious language progress what makes this tools so powerful is

  • that it also keeps you on track with daily reminders you can download our

  • daily dose of language app for free on the site or search for it on the App

  • Store or Google Play all right the 7th technique is getting

  • feedback from a native the technology one-on-one learning with your Premium

  • Plus teacher so without a doubt getting feedback and corrections is the best

  • language practice you can get if you have a Premium Plus plan you can send

  • questions have casual exchanges or just practice with your teacher

  • they'll send corrections and feedback so that you're always improving your

  • teacher will also send you a assignments and they'll hold you

  • accountable you can also record yourself and your teacher will do a voice

  • analysis they'll tell you just how close you are to a native speaker and how to

  • improve and that's it I'll write everyone in the last monthly review we

  • asked you to submit a video or audio file of yourself speaking the language

  • introducing yourself in the language so thank you to all of you that sent in

  • submissions you've all received a premium plus subscription as a reward

  • now let's take a look at some of the videos ok so I am about to check out the

  • audio files that you have all sent to us for this month so I'm very excited to

  • have a listen let's begin

  • hey Alicia how are you doing misery I am from India have been

  • learning English since one year with the help of your YouTube channel English

  • calm I am learning English to advance my career to improve my communication

  • skills and to get better job opportunities learning English is very

  • easy and fun and I learn English through your YouTube channel watching movies TV

  • series and etc reading books and they are helping me to improve my English and

  • thank you teacher once again for improve my English with your YouTube challenges

  • cosmonaut 1.com cool thanks very much for this message that sounds like a good

  • idea using lots of media to help you with your studies I think that's good

  • because you pick up lots of really natural expressions that way so thank

  • you so much for sending this that's really cool and good luck with your

  • continued studies that's awesome okay I'm gonna go to the next one lay

  • hello others show how are you doing I hope you're doing great my name is Rajan

  • I'm from Columbia Columbia I think I've been studying English for almost two

  • years and I've been watching your video lessons for five or six months months

  • maybe yeah something like that and I'm just reading this because I'm

  • really into like we just you know I love language again I want to learn many

  • languages and also and because I want to start just letting translation one of my

  • long-term goals is like to leave and study in Canada so I really like to

  • improve my English right I focus a lot in pronunciation and in comprehension

  • you know because I think it's really hard to understand a series or a TV show

  • or anything right I think you stop I think

  • so hard but anyway I just kept trying in China and yeah I want to thank you

  • because your channel is amazing yes it's actually amazing I love your lessons

  • you're really you're always trying to keep us motivated and that's amazing you

  • always teach allies no strategies to keep going and going so thank you so

  • much I hope everyone loved you listen aside as I do and thank you so much

  • awesome buddy that was super nice that's really interesting message I think so

  • far that's the first person who's mentioned wanting to study translation

  • in the future and just having a general interest in learning languages that's

  • really really cool and thanks so much for the feedback about our videos and

  • the stuff that we make so I'm really happy to hear that it's motivating and

  • it's useful so thank you so much for sending this audio file that was awesome

  • okay I'm gonna go to the next one now

  • hello Alicia hello English class one one team my name is aroma from Indonesia I

  • am 22 years old and I am a programmer I really have to improve my grammar and

  • pronunciation because in September I'm going to build a web application and

  • there is some foreign people in the team so I hope we do a good communication and

  • there is no misunderstanding right Thank You Ali sure thank you in this class 101

  • TM good bye oh that's a really good point like

  • working in an international team so when you're using English as the common

  • language among like your team members it can be really important to make sure

  • like you're communicating clearly like I've been a part of an international

  • team like we have an international team here and it's really good to like check

  • in with each other a lot if you ever think there's a misunderstanding but

  • that's so cool but you're thinking like I really want to improve my grammar and

  • my pronunciation to avoid like any problems or miscommunications so that's

  • cool and good luck with that cool 22 and a programmer that's amazing

  • awesome thank you so much for this okay let's go to the next one hi Alicia I'm

  • Karthik from India actually I don't know how to start I do love to speak in

  • English but actually I can't because of my low confidence and fear about my

  • grammar mistakes but after watched your YouTube channel I lost my fear I can

  • easily speak with my colleagues through English with the help of your YouTube

  • videos and website so I give you a big thank you books and watching English

  • movies I know it won't be possible without English but I now I watched my

  • favorite movies in English as well as reading my louder books reading is one

  • of my biggest hobby but English reading is possible by you guys only thank you

  • everyone and I'm still learning cool that's

  • awesome so this person mentioned he was like kind of feeling low in the

  • confidence in the confidence area about his English speaking but wanted to

  • you know work on actually using it in his life and was able to do that like

  • partially through like watching our videos and checking things out with us

  • so I'm so happy to hear that and I think that's like really cool that you were

  • able to do that too so I hope other people who are worried about you know

  • their pronunciation or making mistakes I hope other people try to push past that

  • fear and practice too and this person said he really enjoyed books reading

  • books too so that's something I like as well so reading books in English now too

  • is possible that's awesome that was a really positive update thank you so much

  • for sending that very cool okay let's go to the next one

  • hello my name is hi Izzy I'm from Brazil hello and I'm longing to see because we

  • like it this language it is a global language in me sure that I get a good

  • level English I will have more opportunities of jobs and travels and I

  • love to make friends around the world in the use English to try to communicate

  • with others mm-hmm so this is a reason that I mean learn English cool

  • so she mentioned yeah like wanting to make friends around the world and just

  • having more opportunities as well I think those are some really big common

  • themes but yeah that was really cool so I hope that you continue with your

  • studies that was easy to understand and you sounded very positive as well nice

  • thank you for sending this okay on to the next one

  • hello Alicia hi I am how much room isn't I'm 28 years old my dream is to speak

  • English fluently I am studying English in order to get a better job

  • you know more about American culture so I watch you all your videos on YouTube

  • thank you can follow you on facebook nice I want to thank you for your

  • efforts that you make to learn me the best way to master English Wow cool

  • thank you very much for watching our videos and for following our Facebook

  • page that's great I hope that you continue with your learning and I hope

  • that we can continue to make things that are useful for you and you mentioned

  • like your goal is to speak English fluently too so I hope that you can like

  • you know make really specific goals as well that can help you in achieving your

  • goal of getting a fluent in English someday so good luck with your continued

  • studies and thank you so much for sending this message that's awesome

  • okay onward

  • hi Alicia Howard I hope you're doing great

  • my name is Vlad and I'm from Ukraine I've been learning English for a few

  • years I'm studying because I want to live and

  • to work in the USA I also want to travel to the USA in the next year for a

  • vacation to improve my skills and have a goal for the next year to become fluent

  • in English so help me God I have an arrogant e-courses

  • for learning English so I think I'm making good progress thanks for your

  • videos bye that's super cool so he wants to go to the USA to improve his skills

  • but he says he's never taken like an official course to study English he's

  • been using our videos and I assume like using lots of different media resources

  • on the Internet to practice that's great you sound very confident and you have

  • like this clear goal to go to the States and it's a good luck with your improving

  • English goal for the next year I hope you have lots of good experiences and

  • you can use English in your travels a lot - that's awesome great so we had a

  • lot of super positive as always super positive and some very

  • confident sounding people with some great goals for this year so good luck

  • to everybody with your goals for the next year and thank you so so much for

  • sending us some audio files to listen to you this month thank you so which entry

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