Name: Remember Vocabulary Fast: TOP 10 TIPS
Uploaded: 2019-01-14T00:17:54.000Z
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Do you have trouble remembering all the wonderful
vocabulary words that you're learning?

If you've been learning English for longer
than, say, five minutes, you probably have

In fact, the phrasal verb I just used, "run
across," might be new for you.

How can you retain that information, so that
when you're having a conversation, you can

Today we're gonna talk about 10 different
things that you can do to remember, retain

and use the vocabulary words that you're learning.

Before we talk about these 10 tips for remembering
vocabulary words, we need to talk about the

three steps that happen every time that you
run across a new word.

They are: Recognizing, understanding, and
using.

The first one, recognizing, means that when
you see a new word or you hear a new word,

you think, "Oh, I think I've heard that before.

I've heard the word 'run across' before."

"I've heard that before, but I don't really
remember what it means exactly."

You've seen it before, but you don't remember
exactly what it means.

Maybe after this video, you will understand
what the word "run across" means, but you

This means that when you read it in a book
or you watch a TV show and you hear them say

"run across," you'll think, "Oh yeah, I heard
Vanessa use this.

But when you're having a conversation with
an English speaker, it just leaves your mind

and you forget about this word completely,
because you're not at the third and final

I wanna let you know that there is a big gap
between understanding a word and using it

You need to understand and run across this
word a lot.

You need to run across a word, the word you're
trying to remember, a lot of times for you

to be able to spontaneously use it in a conversation.

So I wanna let you know that when you learn
a new word, you're not gonna use it directly.

You're not gonna be able to just blurt it
out and say it immediately.

Instead, you're gonna have to go through each
of those steps.

Recognizing it: "Oh yeah, I know this word,
but I don't really remember what it means."

Then understanding it, and then actually using
it yourself.

So be patient with yourself when you learn
a new word.

Realize that you're going through those three
steps, and that eventually you will get to

using it, but you need to have a lot of English
input.

You need to really run across those new words
so many times that you can actually make it

All right, let's get on with the 10 tips to
help you remember and eventually use new vocabulary

My first tip is to look it up on YouTube.

What you're looking for here is, you're trying
to find some insight, some new perspective,

Let's say that you hear the expression "odd
job," and you think, "Well, I know what 'odd'

You're hoping to hear this word repeated a
lot so that you can make it from recognizing

to understanding to using, and you come across
or you run across the video that Dan and I

made about vocabulary, including the word
"odd job."

You hear Dan's stories about his odd jobs.

You hear my stories about the odd jobs that
I had, and you realize, "Oh, it's not actually

Babysitting, walking dogs, washing windows.

So you need to repeat it a lot in order to
actually use it, but looking it up on YouTube

You'll hear a native speaker pronounce it,
and maybe you'll hear a little story that

My second tip is for people who learn well
visually.

For me, when I hear a new word in another
language, it's really difficult for me to

I really like to see the words, that I can
visualize it, and it just helps it to stick

So I recommend when you hear a new word, when
you see a new word, write it down in a notebook.

Write at least one phrase or better yet, write
a full sentence and maybe write some of your

Let's say that you wanna use the word that
I just used, "at least."

Well, you could look it up on YouTube and
find my lesson about it, or you could write

This is gonna help you to create language,
use it yourself, but also it's reinforcing

visually what the word looks like, to help
you remember it.

Connected to number two is number three, which
is to write a comment using the new expression

You're here on YouTube, so I imagine that
you watch other lessons about vocabulary and

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