How to Memorize New Vocabulary: The Techniques Every Learner MUST Know (Right From The Start)
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 04. 2012
- Blog: www.LucaLampariello.com/blog
Today, I will share with you the 3 fundamental steps to memorize new vocabulary: decoding, storage and retrieval.
But first, I will dispel the myths about learning new words and I will give you a real-life example to see why forgetting is not only beneficial, but very necessary.
Then, I will touch upon the one type of repetition that you need and how you can do it without deliberate effort. Also, I will tell you how you can learn words in context by using association and dynamics.
Memory is like a muscle. It atrophies if it’s not used. Make it work on a daily busy and it will become a very powerful tool.
More tips in this post: www.lucalampariello.com/forge...
English version of this video: • How to Memorize New Vo...
Italian version of this video: • Il segreto per imparar...
SUBSCRIBE to learn and improve a new language with proven techniques! / lucalampariello
SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter to become an Independent Language Learner! www.lucalampariello.com/
Follow me on Facebook! / lucalampariellocoaching
Check Out My Course on How to Learn Vocabulary :
www.linguacore.com/product/ea...
Sign up for my newsletter to get my new FREE 80-page ebook📘(audiobook included🔉!) 👉www.lucalampariello.com/newsletter/
Umm... Did you realise that the Subs called "Italian" subs, are appearing in Russian? Its really cool cos thats what im learning, but its was a huge suprise. I dont even remember turning them on haha
In topits where you are passonatelly interested. For instance organic gardening.
Summary of how to retain new vocabulary:
1. Be interested in what you're learning
2. Remove any distractions (this includes background music)
3. Make sure you comprehend the meaning of the word
4. Associate each word with preexisting information, the more absurd the better
5. Review what you've learned at regular intervals
6. Always learn words in context
tysm you just saved me 20 minutes of this man talking gibberish
Thanks man that was really helpfull
@@lucylfanal5670 how can you tell without listening the whole thing?
And #7: read, read, read a lot (he said)
And then there are those words you just never forget. Like “Die Bewältigung” in German. It basically means “coating/dealing.” I learned it in a German history class and through talking about Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past/dealing with the past). I’ll never forget that word
This goes for UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Learners:
I believe that when you reach the upper-intermediate HELL level which I am right now, the easiest way to learn and remember new words is to simply engage in conversations as much as you can and watch more and more media in that target language. What do I mean?
You see, I learned English by myself when I was 12 and reached fluency when I was about 15 (maybe before, but at 15 years old I was sure because I spent 3 days on a vacation trip talking only in English with Canadians), yet I am struggling for 4 years to reach the same level in Chinese.
For English, I learned most from Music and Games, right from the outset you can see clearly that there were 2 important things: 1 Context, 2 MEANINGFUL CONTENT and EMOTION.
For Chinese, sometimes I had neither of these. I've got to learn about Flashcards and overuse them. I don't mean to say that flashcards are bad, but you need to know how to use them and I didn't.
I used to add tons of words without context, with no meaning for me.
In a few months, I realized I needed at least a sentence with a context and my results started to improve. I didn't use many songs to learn Chinese as I did when I was learning English because I am well aware of the fact that Chinese loses the tones during songs and I didn't want to forget about the tones because I know they are very important when speaking Chinese.
But quite soon revising flashcards grew boring and painful. I've reached a stage where I feel I know a lot but yet know too little.
I struggled to find interesting context suitable for my level in Chinese, meanwhile, in English, it was pretty easy because I could easily find translations for the songs I liked and most songs are really short and easy to follow. Then I decided I would search for content suitable for my level and I found it, thank god.
Now I know I am at an upper-intermediate level in Chinese (HSK 4) but I don't feel even the least close to my level in English.
But recently I noticed something:
Every time I am talking to someone in Chinese and I need to use a word that I don't know or can't remember, if I look this word up in a dictionary, WRITE IT (not copy it) and use it in a sentence SPEAKING then I can remember it and NEVER forget it again.
I was giving an Online English Class for a Chinese little girl and I didn't know the word for "Title" in Chinese. I looked it up, wrote it and spoke it, I DIDN'T add it to my Anki deck and BOOM: Three days later while studying SPANISH there was the word "Título" (title in Spanish) within a sentence and all of a sudden I remembered that a few days ago I was looking for that word in Chinese and could remember the word EASILY.
Because it was IMPORTANT and I MADE USE OF IT.
What a good piece of advice! Thanks a lot!
Interesting technique about looking up a word right on the spot, write it down and make use of it all on the spot. The use of Interest, emotion, and importance is such strong technique too! Thank you Danilo
Excellent and inspiring, xie xie nin.
May I ask ,for when you wrote 'Then I decided I would search for content suitable for my level and I found it, thank god.'.. where and indeed what this content was!?
@@finkdifferently7763 Most of the times I watch cartoons on Little Fox Chinese, it is for free. I also use an extension called "Learning Languages With Netflix/CZcams" It allows me to read double subtitles and save words for later studying. I also use an extension Zhongwen Chinese Pop Up dictionary. It allows me to save any Chinese word I find interesting on the internet and then at the end of the day I add them to my Anki Deck for later revision. Googling "Chinese in Level" also helps.
@@danilopablo9848 Fab, thank you!
memories are enhanced when emotions are involved
Michael Griffiths Frustration is one emotion. Excitement, enjoyment, interest are all examples of when something is emotional that can help you remember language. It’s associative.
yessss
Come on, you grammar maniacs, leave the guy alone! He's on fire in the video. Luca, rock'n'roll, man, it was a total knockout ;)
I'm very sceptical of these polyglots blowing up their level of ability, claiming 'fluency' when actually they're not. Luca is 100% fluent in English. Without doubt, native-like level.
Join the club, I also don't like it when "polyglots" exaggerate their level. Just be honest about where you're at! I feel like people appreciate the authenticity.
I do think Luca really is fluent in a lot of languages though.
Agreed! I heard him speak two of my native languages and his fluency, i.e. accent/grammar/vocabulary volume: are simply OUTSTANDING!! Not every native speaker has their language on such high level as Luca does. Besides, I lived in Italy for a while and never ever did I hear any Italian having such a good accent in English! Bravissimo, Luca!
Also, some people are quite fluent at speaking, but never bothered to learn kanjis (only hiraganas). It really depends on your goals in the end, some people only want to be able to speak with japanese people and enjoy japanese movies / drama.
alt_frog you mean kana (both hiragana and katakana ) but yeah you don't need kanji if you don't care about going to Japan , reading or anything like that but at least learn the Grammer and the kana so you know how to pronounce it not romaji only problem is you won't be fully fluent like you will be illiterate in Japanese without kanji but as long as the person doesn't mind that and like you said only using it to watch tv and talk to people then cool .
Congratulations Luca, I really appreciate your presentation. I agree with you about ways of learning vocabulary and I've taught this to my students.
I was walking with a girl at night in thailand (after a nice meal), quite romantic but as we walked past a sewage system that smelled really bad she used the expression Mai Mahk Mahk and wafted hands in front of her face. that was 2 YEARS AGO, I never use the expression but I remember it more clearly than the words I was trying to remember yesterday. Tied to an emotion, tied to a memory, tied to a smell and tied to a visual image (the hand wafting).
Next you should do a video on "accent acquisition", Your American accent is near perfect!
This was two years ago. You should hear him now!
I'm so glad that I find you through "easy German". You are awesom. I speak Chinese, English and German, wish I can learn 4 more languages, the more languages I learn, the easier it gets, but I think I'm still in the hard time, trying to figure out my own way. You are a great inspiration. I wish more and more people know you and your mathods.
Coming from a linguistic standpoint, it's amazing how far your fluency, pronunciation and phrasing has come in such a short time. Bravo!
Thank you, Luca! Watching your videos has a plenty of benefits for me - I'm not only receiving interesting and useful information, but also improve my listening skills. Thank you!
Great video! I appreciate the help in showing us how to keep motivated to learn. Crecí con padres bilingües y quiero aprender el francés. Siga dando buena información para que uno se motive. 👍🏼
Excellent advice on both memory and language learning. It's great to have a different perspective on approaching something as daunting as foreign languages. I think this is applicable to other disciplines beyond learning foreign languages.
This is one of Lucca´s videos that I studied most often during my English learning. Whenever I needed to motivate myself to keep learning, I would listen to the video again and start the process over and over. Decoding, storage and retrieval.
Thank you very much for your learning and inspiration!!!
Thanks a lot for the new video! I was really looking forward to getting new suggestions and tips from you. I totally agree with the method you've applied to your language learning. I'm a big believer in the necessity of mulling new words and expressions over before attempting to produce them. Great as usual))
Hi Luca, I'm glad to have found your videos. I've taken many language classes, but stopped learning after moving back to the U.S. from Europe because I felt that I had no practical reason to continue. But watching your vids has helped put me back in touch with this passion that feeds my soul. So thanks, I've never seen or met any polyglots before but now I don't feel like such a nerd for loving languages so much, it feels normal! Nu leer ik Nederlands. Dank je voor de inspiratie!
Although I watch football with my friends! I spend a lot of time watching, learning and remembering stuff about different sports. I went to a bbq earlier this evening - my knowledge about many different sports allowed me to begin chatting to people I didn't know because I could easily join in with the stuff they were talking about and then often move on to chat about other stuff. Learning language isn't the only way to improve yourself and enrich your soul, mouth and mind!
Thanks, Luca! Those are my sentiments as well. I never understand why people get offended by being corrected. Having your mistakes pointed out to you gives you a free opportunity to improve. I look forward to seeing your video on this topic! :)
You are pretty smart guy
you're so awesome it hurts! thank you so much for the detailed information!
your english is flawless! You're amazing!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this Luca. I'm looking forward to your book as well.
Super excellent discussion here! Thanks.
Excellent lesson, Luca!!!
A great video!!!
Thank you a lot from Argentina!!!
Luca, I thank you for your videos I usually watch them frequentelly. They help me to learn more and more. Thank you very, very much.
Interval terms for learning, exclude other factors when reading, learn words in context! THANKS A LOT :)
Will definitely be using some of these techniques. x Thank you.
I agree 100% with the passion part of your video. I know it is true because I tried to remember at least 5 moments in my past where I was really bored, and also tried to remember 5 moments where I was really happy or sad. I found that it was extremely hard to remember the boring moments, but remembering the emotional moments was effortless and almost instant. 10/10 video.
I love this! I'm currently learning Spanish on Memrise and I'm finding the way it teaches is very good. I spend 20-60 minutes each day and I'm finding the language actually sticking for once!
Falklang I could help you , I am a native speaker of Spanish
YES! Me too. Love Memrise :)
Falklang ...I really like Memrise as well. Currently, I'm using the A1 Spanish, but there's just so many Spanish _programs_ within Memrise that it's a matter of trying each one out to find the ones that work best.
There was one _program_ that seemed really interesting as it started with A1 and progressed up to C1. Unfortunately, there were some lessons within that _program_ that instead of speaking in Spanish, the person pronounced the word or sentence in English.
Luca,I listen you video with interest.
You pronunciation is very clear so I can catch the meening very well even my hearing level is not so good. Thank you a lot.
Thank you so much, for me, I think vocabulary is one of the hardest issues in the learning process, keep on!
love your videos, how you explain everything and mostly your diction, you motive me a lot! thanks! :)
I heard (well, read) people learning languages mentioning 'Luca'. I googled, searched keywords. Finally found your channel by accident. I'm impressed. Very nice video, and applicable to much more language learning, I could use this for revision in general. Glad I found your channel.
Thanks for the sharing. This actually helps me a lot learning a new language.. thanks
This video was amazing. Very helpful.
Keep up your great work!
thank you so much for the advices, that's help me a lot.
So helpful information. This video is exactly what I was looking for. Thank u a lot. By the way you speak so lovely!!!
Thank you very much !!!
Muito obrigado, Luca!
thank you very imformative, keep up the good work
Thanks Lucia, i think your methods will be helpful, keep it going !
actually ın my opinion one the most powerfull way to expand your vocabulary is reading articles that you can be enjoy while reading and maybe this may be very tough but for example ıf you are intersted in science there are tons of articles about it and you can read these articles just one time but ıf you want you can read the same article more than one time so in this way ıf you encounter one word that you dont know ıts meanıng day by day you will be familiar with this word and also unless you make an effort very much you will learn this word's meaning and this method is the key to learn language thank you luca as always ıts very usefull video
chellini chellini Zuni
When I first listened you I thought you are American,your accent is perfect! I'm happy I have found you, you're are such an inspiration. I hope I'll be able to have accent like yours in English.
Your English is amazingly fluent and convincing (as well as the other languages). Being myself a polyglot I've been using many of the processes that you describe in your video and they are definitely effective. Thanks for sharing it with us!!
Helpful, thanks
Crystal clear Luca. Who would not suspect that you are overloaded? It's the result and consequence of your very success. Congratulation and best wishes from Christian. Thank you.
thank you Luca! :D
Thank you so much
Thanks a lot Luca for this useful information, thanks for sharing your polyglot wisdom with us. Regards from South America!
I really like your ending.
I passed the CPE (C2 (CEFR)) in English in high school but now I started my university studies which include minoring in English, I realised that I know nothing. I went to my first lecture and was stunned of how much vocab I have to revise and learn to be able to write a scientific paper in english.
And C2 should be near native level...
But my studies also show me that learning is way easier on my current level than it was in high school with all the vocab lists. It is just flooding in!(maybe because of the repetition I hear and read the words since yeah.... university ;))
The emotionally involved part is right on, that’s why my Italian is the best even if this is my third year with it. I’ve been learning Spanish for years, but somehow just can’t get it to the level I want to.
Thank you so much for taking your time to make this helpful video.
It contains really useful, effective and significant information and your speech is straight to the point so I don't feel like having wasted my time even though it is almost 20 minutes :)
I've enjoyed this one and will check out your other videos.
Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge and experiences :)
Oh I really like hearing you talk and the way you think. Awesome. Subscribed.
Nice video! I agree with the ideas you presented in it. Can't wait for the book, Luca.
thank you so much.. you are the grate..!!.
This one's been the best of your videos so far. Discussing applied psycholinguistics on a serious level really levels up the standard of what You Tube Polyglots have to offer. All I can contribute with is to recommend to everybody interested in vocabulary acquisition the studies written by Paul Meara and the VAGRA research group.
Amazing!!
bravo luca!
WAO THIS REALLY HELPED ME ,SPECTACULAR
Thank you for this video!! I loved the info you provided! I found you by accident on here, but will definitely be following along from now on. :)
I would be happy with 5 to 10 words a say in each of my 2 target languages.
It was an excellent speech about languages..molto grazie (y)
tu acento es increible!
merci beaucoup!!!
Awesome video!
Hi Luca, I try to watch just one video, but I can't do this... Your videos are awesome!!! It's very interesting, specially your tips for students, like me for example!! Thank you so much!!!
The information here is amazing, I watched it twice =)
Well said Giulia!
Gratulacje! Do widzenià !
Hey thanks! greetings from venezuela!
I love your pronunciation is so perfect!
the part about "passion/emotion is a very good boost for teh memory"is very reconizable. I live in Greece now, and of course learn the lang. i can get around town pretty easy, and make some small talk to strangers on the metro for example, but i can talk whole stories about cars.. I love cars, and have an antique one, and i al ready know so many technical terms and words, just because it has my particular interest. (and also because i repeat it a lot sincer i like sharing about it haha)
this was a good video for me because i learned new things and it will be good for English now, thanks!
I definitely agree with associating. When I was learning the Latin word for beer, cervisia, it helped to know cerveza in Spanish. :)
Interesting video , thanks Luca
Luca may be Italian. And he may speak with a perfect American accent. But I’ll tell you what he isn’t. American-Italian. Not one bada-bing, not one oofaa, not even a Maaadone!!
Thanks a lot for share with us this video Luca. It's incedible helpful for me.
Israel
Sigue asi Lucaa saludos desde Peru , You are the best
thank you I ove it
I had a wardrobe just like yours haha. Thanks for the tips!
thx you help me a lot!
Could you please do a video talking more about the importance of reading and how to read actively? This is something I struggle with! Your videos are very interesting! :)
Great vid. Helps me to memorize greek words)
Grait explenation
Thanks from Egypt
Hi Luca I know what you mean. In order to remember what you are trying to learn, you need to be emotionally attached. I’m very emotional when I’m learning Russian. I get very happy when I can finally sit down to do my self study. I just love the language so much. When I’m at work, Sometimes I feel like I need to be at home to study. I get to excited when I’m about to open my books and or go on youtube to learn. I Mastered the Cyrillic and it’s sounds in 3-4 weeks. Considering that I have 3 jobs lol, I’m native of Philippines and I’m already 36 😭. I love everything about Russia 😍
I enjoy your videos very much.
Bravo...accento perfetto...complimenti
This is what language teachers should teach instead of bombarding students with grammars thanks god i found this channel and steve kaufman's
I have found a great way to remeber, and retain languages is to listen to music in that language. When doing homework I use instrumental music from that culture. It doesnt work for everyone but it helps me.
I like this video.
Thanks Luca do more VIDEOS I like your Channel
. I'm looking forward to your book as well!
Luca! This is very very very useful and helpful video! I'll take your tips to my heart, and I'm gonna use them. After watching your videos, I'm only sad because day is only 24 hours :( I don't have as much time to learning languages as I would like to have. Good luck Luca. Someday I'm be able to talk in your, beautiful, Italian language. I just started learn it. You are very inspired. Greetings from Poland for you. ;-)
you are awesome. i adore people like you and I kind of know this feeling when you reach some point and want to share, spill out your thoughts
Thanks! :)
Hi Luca Thanks for the cool video. So inspiring.
Minchia! Mi stai svoltando la vita! Sto vedendo tutti i tuoi video. Grazie. :)
Thank you Luca, I particularly enjoyed this video! I'm currently working on 3 different languages (English, French and Spanish), it goes without saying that I can't wait to read your book! I swear to God I won't download it illegally by the way, I'm sure it will worth every penny :) Keep up the good work, take care :)
informative video about langauge hacks and you explain it pretty well .