How to Learn Vocabulary
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Language learning is about acquiring words. The number of words we know, if they are acquired through lots of listening and reading, is a good measure of our familiarity with the language.
0:00 What is the simplest evaluation of where we are in a language?
1:36 Some books I have read on learning languages.
2:58 It's all about learning vocabulary naturally.
3:56 How many words I know in the languages I can speak.
7:51 The way I recommend you use flashcards to learn vocabulary.
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Kiitos Steve! Thanks for your video.
I read read and read.
I've seen this video , it's quite for the leveraging the vocabulary that your learning language . Yet I'd like to write my own learning phrase that I've been using so far , it maybe help you out to increase your vocabs. In my daily life , I read and listen english resources during the day . I check the vocabs if I couldn't comprehend the meaning of the sentence otherwise it is redundant to check and you will feel lost after return to context. As if , I can infer the meaning to vocab even though not know about it , I would highlight but I wouldn't stop the reading until end of to paragraph after that , I look the dictionary in English not my mother tongue firstly. If I could not understand even , I'd check the mother tongue as well . Most likely , I would forget it the meaning precisely after a while . Probably I'd see that words some other resources either within the next paragraphs therefore , I get used the word after see couple of time . Instead of writing tons of words to paper, you could grasp the words easily by this technique which I've been using it. So this encountered couple of times world could have been familiar or known words.
I wish , you would understand what I mentioned in this paragraph because I'm not to much good with the writing and I don't feel free while I write some context in English. :D
You have to read the Qur'an , the best book on the surface of the earth .
Thank you Steve! You are the best
Hi! My name is André, I’m from Brazil, I’m learning English and I have a dream to speak many languages and to be a linguist.
Thanks for this video👏🏾
My memory is really bad, so I really can't memorize vocabulary by writing them down in a notebook and trying to memorize them. Rather, I memorize whole sentences in contexes and situations. My body can remember so much more than my brain. Weird, but true.
I can relate.
I think this is actually true for most people. Memory works by linking knowledge together, the more you link a word to context, the easier it is to recall. It's much easier for me to memorize all the words in a sentence from a story than a single word, or an out-of-context vocabulary sentence. However, the downside is that sometimes I can't recall the meaning of word, or the reading of kanji out of the original context I learned it in.
I think, optimally, you learn the words in one context, one sentence first, then you learn another 2 or 3 sentences and, eventually, you become pretty good at recognizing the word in any context.
Study harder.
Well, it's not your body it is still your brain 😂😂😂
You just use it better
yee,me too .when my teacher tell us to dictate words in our notebook that i always feel hard for that because of my weak memory.when try to dicate,i need to read them for many many times but cant remember them permenantly but i will forget them quickly when finish the dicatation. But if I go through many books and the words come up again and again, i'll remember them unconsciously.
The idea that passive vocabulary is your main indicator of how far you“ve progressed in a language is very appealing to me. I think though it depends on your communicative (or for that matter non-communicative goals) you are trying to achieve in a certain language. If your aim is to be able to understand reading and listening material passively, it would help you a great deal. Once you want to communicate or write something in a language, you“d eventually have to turn your acquired passive vocabulary into an active one. Thus, being aware of the contexts (syntactical,lexical and pragmatical) in which you can actively use certain words is quite essential, I think. I would love to see comments on that.Being a linguist and polyglotte myself, I“ ve always enjoyed learning vocabulary, even out of a dictionary:)
I completely agree!
Thank you for your comment! Excellent!
Totally on the same page! I just have a hard time finding listening material to what phrases I’m reading here and there (in Japanese, I don’t really know the pitch etc) did you study linguistics?
nu@@lucie442 Thank you for your comment. Wow, Japanese would be a hard nut for me :) Not that I havent thought about learning asian languages, I‘d be struggling with Kanji and the pitch accent as well. Yes, I studied German as a second language, linguistics and language acquisition in particular. Hence,my passion for language learning.
Thank you so much for this nice advice. You are wonderful
I will be forever thankful and grateful for you Steve for sharing your invaluable wisdom and experience, I actually totally agree with your statements but I never were able to summarize it for my self and output it elegantly and clearly as you just did, Thank you so much.
It is impressive how we can learn any language by just doing simple things like reading books, listening to podcasts, and writing things in that language. When I first started to learn English, I didn't take it very seriously because I thought that if I went to school and studied English there, I would learn English as time went by, but then I realized that if I really want to learn and speak English fluently, I will have to study English everyday and make English learning a habit.
I can definitely get behind this! I'm relearning Japanese after not speaking it for about 10 years. I remember a lot more about the grammar than I do actual vocabulary... which leaves me in an awkward position when trying to have a discussion 😅. I'm doing my best to relearn as much vocab as possible so that I can actually start speaking it again, lol.
that's awesome!! i just moved back to Japan and am in the same situation!! amazing 😂 lived here about 8 years ago and need to catch up AND learn things i was too lazy to do before like reading and writing properly. GOOD LUCK!! i just made a video about how i will do this actually
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I’m there too lmao
2:08 this is why you're a gem, somebody who has been through all of this, and is now sharing is knowledge in simple 10 minute videos is truly a treasure to be found. Thanks!
YEA
Parfait comme toujours. J'ai 40 ans et bientôt 41 et moi qui ne suis jamais aller à l'école ( vie très particulière suite à différentes circonstances) ait commencé l'anglais il y a quelques mois ( je ne me l'étais jamais autorisée auparavant).
J'avançais très lentement puis il y a environ un mois et demi je vous ai découvert ainsi que toutes vos précieuses méthodes et depuis je suis bien plus confiant.
En faite, je suis en train de lire votre livre actuellement et bien qu'il existe en français je l'ai acheté en Anglais et je suis en train de le lire en Anglais ... À ma grande surprise je m'aperçois que je comprends à plus de 90% ...
Parler, surtout en circonstances réel est bien plus délicat... Mais je sais que ça viendra en continuant à prendre du plaisir.
Merci 🙏
I'm really grateful that I know you. every time you upload a video I learn something new. thank you for your time.
از این ویدیو استفاده کردم و برام مفید بود. چقدر خوب که در حال یادگیری فارسی هستید. براتون آرزوی موفقیت دارم. بترکونید.
Very Interesting video!
There are a lot vocabularies that I've learned long time ago and i never use them,I don't forget them,but thanks to them I can understand more complex ideas.
Claramente um sábio profissional, nota-se o domínio que você tem do que está falando, parabéns pelo trabalho
Just found this channel and loved it at first sight!!!!Big thanks!!! Greetings from Germany from a fan of linguistics:)
I completely agree with you, and I also see language imput as a form of review because everything we consume in the language is only going to have repetitive words so you dont have to worry about ever seeing it again
plus it'll still give you context (90% of the time) compared to if you only stuck with language programs.
wow almost hitting the 500k mark, thanks a lot for all these videos Steve! we much appreciate it!
He’s on over 1M now 😂
Stunning! As usual! Thanks Steve.
Great video... I'm a native Spanish speaker
A have my own experience in studying foreign language words - when I started to study Chinese, studying characters and tones was very hard, therefore I wrote a short application in Python with random appearing of words. It helped me much to get initial Chinese vocabulary.
My favorite sub-topic in the genre! Great assessment 👏🏾
The editing in this channel has improved tremendously.
I love this guy! He makes learning interesting and accessible. Yay!
I signed up for LingQ a few weeks ago, after seeing several of your videos over a couple of years. My Russian learning has moved from ‘stagnation’ to ‘making process’ since then. I watch a few polyglots telling how they learn languages, but as you say, it comes down to spending time with the language and having comprehensible input. Thanks much for LingQ and for your continued motivation.
Is it that helpful ??
I am learning Russian like you. I hope we can do it
Я могу поговорить с вами по-русски))
I learn Russian by listening audio books, such as Anna Karenina, found on CZcams, and reading a bilingual edition of the same book, which I bought on Amazon. Tolstoy's book Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth --is easy.
@@sonjak8265 I love Tolstoy too) Some people prefer Dostoevskij, not me😁
Thank you, Steve! That was very refreshing!
As a language teacher, I independently came to Steve's conclusions myself. This Man has it bang on!
100% agree!!
How do you imorove in speaking without actively recalling vocabulary? Passive vocabulary is not enough in order to produce (a decent) language.
I learn vocabulary through listening and I'm getting better and better
با درود و احترام .
از مطالب آموزنده شما سپاسگذارم .
Well done, Steve. An excellent summary of this topic.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experience! My past experience with German come to mind as you share this.
Great information! Love when you share your book collection-makes me feel normal! :)))
What I have found helpful is using a frequency dictionary and making Anki cards out of the words.
Thank you for sharing this amazing knowledge with us, your channel is wonderful!
That 500k is so close, congrats in advance
I really agree to learning vocabulary naturally :). I am now learning a lot of Swedish words by listening to an "easy Swedish podcasts", it is like "Assimil" but in a podcast format, I love it!
@rm monster just by listening to input that we can understand, have you heard about the "natural approach"? I am a big fan :)
As a complete beginner, I’ve been supplementing Anki flashcards with podcasts, TV shows, and movies. So far, the flashcards have actually been helpful because words I would never even have parsed out in spoken language are specifically drawn out to me repeatedly by Anki. Then when I consume the media it’s like it just “clicks” and from this I’m able to learn even more words because I can guess based on the context of the words I just learned. I’m learning like 20 new words per day from flashcards and reviewing others recommended by Anki, and so far I’m pretty satisfied with my progress. Goal right now is to learn like 5K words in under a year.
This is fantastic, I love binge learning new words but felt guilty not using any of them. This gives me perfect excuse to indulge in this hobby
Have a try for it.
Totally agreed what you have said. Thanks for sharing. Steve.
Thanks for this video. From my own limited, but intensive experience I find that there is a 'scale' of knowing a word. In the early going it is exposure, exposure, exposure in context for non-cognates. True cognates are a gift. My biggest current challenge is recognizing known words in speech. Early on I might recognize a word, but slowly. So slowly that I loose the context - the world passes me by. A weird, long delay until my brain accepts it knows this word. This delay shortens the more times I hear a given word. So in this context I wouldn't say I fully know a word (or phrase) until I can understand it in speech at a normal listening rate. Repetition matters a lot.
Reading is different, the delay in recognition doesn't matter because the rate I read at is not important.
Great stuff!
This comment should have more likes! Great observation! I couldn't agree more!
I love your naturalness…gonna take the tips
Thank you...very useful...not only the content....I hear you...as comprehensive lesson also .
I have been language learning at various levels for years and I have fully converged more and more over time to this exact perspective.
Context, mass input, *passive vocabulary*
Could you maybe explain what you mean with passive vocabulary 😅? Because I don’t really know what it’s supposed to mean
The setting and lighting on this video feels good 👍
Learning a word in a context (in a phrase) is much better than learning it and trying to memorize it singularly! Bear it in mind to everyone!
Thank you 🤗🤗🤗
I want to say that my weakness is learn new words in english, i'm still struggling with vocabulary i agree with you mr. Steve learn new words by memorsing 500 words it won't affective at all we should do more input learning ya you're right good luck on your languange learning guys.
Ingenious! Thanks a lot for your video! Very interesting it is!)
We LOVE you, Steve! Keep up the good work; you are an inspirational teacher. I am learning Arabic with Arabe Facil, which means I am learning that language through Spanish. It makes sense to me because I am learning to improve both languages ...
Arabic & Portuguese both borrow Arabic words. See videos by Paul
Jorgensen of Langfocus
Bahador Alast of ?
both discuss both languages words that are
borrowed from Arabic.
I so like your video! That's really usefull information!!!
Thank you Steve, your tips are always useful and interesting to hear! 👍🙋♂️ I strongly believe that we all should learn vocabulary *through listening and reading THE CONTENT THAT IS INTERESTING FOR US* 😊 It's the most natural way to aquisite vocabulary and finally get our language goals 💪 *Reading, listening, review* - all three components are very important! 👏 Let's boost our English confidency in 2022, guys! 🤩🙌
True 👍👍👍
A great video, very informative, I feel inspired by the concept of passive vocabulary, thank you for the sincere advices.
Dear Mr. Kaufmann
This Nojan, I am an IELTS cours student and very interested in learning English, my mother language is Persian and since I saw your videos I become your loyal fan. As I understand you are studying Persian currently and I want to tell you I will be more than happy if I can help you in this wau evem by simple talk in persian and practice English with you too in a two way conversation.
Thanks for your brilliant videos.
Sincerely yours.
Thank you Steve! Thank you so much!
Steve,
Do you ever do vocabulary augmentation by learning the roots and affixes of a language?
I continue to do that and cannot see myself ever doing the one word at a time with the dictionary ever again.
Aside from the most frequent words study of in a case of one word at a time, which is necessary, the passive knowledge of learning word roots and affixes has changed my outlook entirely.
The Ancient Greek and Latin roots, suffixes and prefixes have expanded my passive understanding of English my mother tongue. Now I know many of that can be transferred to other Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. Also modern Greek of which I can think of.
“You see behind me I have all these books”
lol I thought it was a curtain with books on it at first
500k! Congratulations 🎉👏
thanks teacher, you are excellent!
Thank you so much for this lesson, I'm an English learner and I'll practice your advice,of course I'll download your app too.
I'm Persian and be glad to hear that and thanks for your videos ❤️👑
Muchas gracias como siempre señor steve Kaufman
Real bookshelf this time lol :) awesome as always
Certainly need words to... wordsmith (e.g., apply grammatical rules, etc.) 😉
Thanks for the help, Steve.
Congratulations 500k!
You give very good advice.
Un hombre con consejos excelentes.
People who say they have problems learning new vocabulary should bear in mind We are learning new words every day in our first language. We change our vocabulary all the time depending on the social situation we are in. It's just not as obvious as when you are learning a new foreign language when it seems like hard work. These things take time and because so many people present this as an easy task to sell their products or to show they are special one can become rather negative about our own abilities.
It’s really informative video thanks 🙏
Great piece of advice 👍
خیلی ممنون و موفق باشید.
Thank you so much for that!
Completely spot on! So sad that I have only realized this in my late 20s. I wish I knew this earlier. Had wasted so much time using the wrong method learning English before.
The idea that passive vocabulary is your main indicator of how far you"ve progressed in a language os very appealing to me. i think thought it depends on your communicative (or for that matter non-communicative goals) you are trying to achieve in a certain language. if your aim is to be able to understand reading and listenig maerial passively. it would help you a great deal. once You want to communicate or write something in a language, you'd eventually have to turn your acquired passive vocabulary into an active Thus, being aware of the q
很有意思!!
谢谢您 老师
Thank you teacher!
Steve vc e o cara thank your for your videos
Obrigado Steve por trazer mais um desses video e Por coincidência estava pensando exatamente sobre isso.
Is this Italian or Spanish? Sorry for disturbing...
@ it is portuguese from brazil.
@@kaynansilva6998 Oh, thanks. Are there big differences bitween Brazil and Portugal Portuguese? How did you understand it's from Brazil?
just a few words, but the most biggest difference is from the accent.@
@@henriquesnowing8762 I understand it. It's like saying garbage and rubbish different in USA and UK English...
Very interesting video 👍
Thanks!
7:00 listening and comprensión reading ti learn words
Thank you so much
Tks a lot 😊
I love your videos💕
That´s a really good advice.
I’m recommending everyone to you.I hope you hit 1Million subscribers
I have bought some books dual language too. I think it's very interesting because meanwhile I practice English I acquire Russian.
Vocabulary is the most important step to learn any language. If you want to learn vocabulary firstly, you can understand any language easily.
Gracias
I love Occam's Raisin
I've been learning English for a couple of years, one thing that I'm not doing anymore is studying in traditional courses in my country, because you go to school, study lots of grammar only, and we usually pay lots of money to have poor conversation, the classes tend to have lots of people and you have no enough time to get to practice what you have learned. I have a friend leaving in Japan, she has being there since 3 years ago, and it turns out that she doesn't speak the language because she's just have Brazilian friends.
Word count isn't about if you can use it, but it _is_ about if you don't forget it. I fail at language learning because i'm on a treadmill - the words i "learn" fall away, come back, fall away, come back, and i'm treading water, never reaching the point where i can use regular material as input
come back again for this advice!!
Very informative video.
Thank you
As a second language teacher who only speaks two languages fluenty, I agree 100% with everything you say.
I am still a beginner in Spanish, my third language, but it is my laziness that prevents me from going further. Thank you for your insight Steve!
I am learning Spanish and I love this language. Muchas gracias ❤️❤️❤️
Great advice
I found out that a passive vocabulary much bigger than active one. That's why we can understand more when listening than we are able to say in conversation. So when someone is listening or writing, he likely uses both of them, but when saying a person mostly applies an active vocabulary.
But how do we improve in learning how to speak the target language? I like this idea of passive vocabulary and I've always found it very useful, but the goal is learning how to speak, to produce that language. I really can't understand how you're supposed to improve your speaking without mastering, though active recall, a big vocabulary (and phonology of course).
I appreciarite !
Too me, it’s all about context in which the words are used.
I like your way to learn
language❤
I wish I could have used lingq more for my japanese lessons. Unfortunately the system used to identify and separate words doesn't do japanese well. I plan on coming back to it when I'm more advanced. 😁
Thanks again for your support 😘
love it