What are the best ways to memorise new vocabulary?

[@CambridgeUPELT]

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[@juli-fz7ep]

Summary. Thank you for making this video. 1. write it down (the new and interesting word) keep a notebook either online or physical copy and include it in your list 2. write the word in a sentence, incorporate the word in a new context rather than the one you read it in, or include notes of the context the new word you heard/ read it in, include words that are similar to the new word 3. relate new words to personal life in some way: connect it with experiences in your life, describe experiences, use it to connect to family, people around you, incorporate personal meaning to the new word. making it relevant to yourself. 4. some words that you hear repeated a lot, those are the important words you must absolutely try to remember, some words are not as significant (not all are equal) 5. repetition- review the new word over time, in the beginning, you will have to review it more to avoid forgetting it and to ingrain it in your mind as important, however, as time passes and you review it more, you can start spacing your reviewing time longer and longer (think of the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve) i included this bit

[@ilcanalefelice]

You made a summary of a two minutes video? So useful, hem? Wake up! The video is 2 minutes, no need of a summary!

[@juli-fz7ep]

@@ilcanalefelice its more like just notes for me to help remember. some people prefer reading so i just wanted to include more options for those who want to come back to the video and review by reading

[@evanilsonp.8183]

Congratulations for your job writing it here in the comments.

[@jansenlee5403]

Nice job

[@2316mimi]

thank you so much 😍😍

[@vanessabain7004]

Hi from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Short and sweet. What a coincidence! This week I was discussing with my students what strategies they use to acquire new vocabulary.

[@vocabularyhelp]

Writing vocabulary words in sentences is what I'm all about! It;s truly effective. Great tips, Michael.

[@philtrem]

My main strategy is to look up every word I don't already know in a dictionary and use strategies similar to those outlined in the video to help me memorize them.

[@ulugbeknur]

Dr. McCarthy, thank you so much for your tips. I admire your ability to explain difficult concepts/notions in a learner-friendly way. Thank you!

[@hopefullook]

the key is repetition. The longer you stopped encountering it, the more likely you will forget it.

[@i_flawlesschris22]

That was what he was saying

[@khadijamuhammadasif5437]

@@i_flawlesschris22 why so rude loserrrrr u r!!!!!!!!

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

It is repetition over a long enough time period.

[@tigranmikayelyan3963]

One of the greatest experts of the English language - with invaluable series on words, grammar, phraseology, etc. Thank you!!!

[@GRADER800]

I have been doing what this guy said for the past 5 years. I have a journal with just the most popular vocab I hear; I have collected popular vocab from TV shows, sports events, and stuff, and after that, I decide what phrases to pick and choose, because some phrases do not match my personality, for instance. Now I have about 450 something phrases, among phrasal verbs, collocations, and so on and so forth ...I'm thinking I'm not going to type more than 500 phrases. I type every phrase in context, and like he said, whenever possible I relate it to my life. A plus I must mention is that I have every single phrase linked to video clips, using that specific phrase I click on. What have I been doing during these past years? /I've been using the phrases in real conversations, when they come to mind; I also type them in the comments section of KZbin videos like this, and I watch the video clips of phrases almost every day, I also record myself practicing the shadowing technique, using those video clips. I would leave a copy of my journal, but it's very personal and there's a lot of work and time invested.

[@topotondo828]

How do you find video clips of the phrases?

[@hazartilirot]

You could also show a word with a picture in order to use different types of memory. A learners would be able to play all its favourite words in the right order which would follow according to the statistic. Learners would choose a repeat option of pronunciation as well - how many times repeats the word in the playlist. You could be able to do the different types of exercises and to get a maximum of your learning.

[@memesworld8603]

Respected Sir. You are glamorous teacher of English. I wish I would learn english from u.

[@karimkaan8700]

OH MY GOD THOSE VALUABLE ADVICES HAT OFF

[@waseem8830]

You are a wonderful person and close to the heart

[@azizbeksuyunboyev4735]

It's good tip to connect new word with something in your personal life and experience.

[@jwkelley]

Another thing to note in your notebook is take note of expression or words you want. You are likely a certain kind of person in your L1, you are going to need to rebuild something similar in your l2 if you want to express yourself naturally.

[@مرتضىالجبوري-ي6ي]

a very good strategy to put it in a context. Good one

[@adrianwolf1265]

Precise and interesting video, thanks a lot.

[@marcosgoodenglishneto7950]

Thanks for help us improve our english

[@HaiNguyen-hm6lb]

This is the best video. Great. Thank you.

[@ayaanlenur2915]

Quality is better than quantity. you see short video with nice concept.

[@memesworld8603]

Invaluable suggestions that will be helpful to maintain strong foundation of English.

[@liamcavanagh5270]

Try to write as much sentences as possible using the target vocabulary. Then read them aloud.

[@DannyTillotson]

Liam Cavanagh You mean try reading "as many" sentences right? Hehe ;))

[@hazartilirot]

Imagine, you are reading a book in English on your phone and working with the new words from the book simultaneously. Every time when you come across a new word, you add it into the favourite list of the Dictionary. You have thousands words in the list, but how we could be able to know which words were the most popular? The dictionary had to count the frequency of our requests of every word. We can use a statistic in order to make an entertainment for learners.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

I agree. It`s useful try find how use it by yourself. You can count words from text and check most of common first. Make a test how many new words you can remember overnight. It is your personal limit to memorize. Test it by making list and word with sentence. Which is better way.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

The key is repetition over a longish time interval with long gaps so that it moves from short term memory into long term memory. Repeating a word, and it’s English translation, regularly over a couple of days might not be enough as it might still be in short term memory. Flash cards work well, and commercial ones can be bought for foreign languages.

[@ilcanalefelice]

Very useful tips. Thank you Professor

[@fikret8422]

he gave us very convenient ways to memorise new vocab. Thank you for all ways which gave us

[@NanciAugusto]

Very good advices! Thanks for sharing!

[@josephndugai3598]

I truly appreciate the four methodologies and the way you teach Sir, thanks and big-up.

[@NAS9694]

Thank you benefited a lot from your explanation, I want to ask you a question Can a video academy of words used in the IELTS test, for example, Video contains 3000 English word important academic and repeated frequently in the IELTS tests

[@kaafirashid3640]

The main tip: try to straight out or make out a paragraph with the words that you have collected/archieved. Most importantly, the paragraph must be in a story form, to remember better! You are welcome! You are welcome! ✌️

[@omarperezprada]

Thanks very much, For persons like you I will can speak Lenguage English this year. I like your tips, I am agree with you.

[@marktom6740]

Most important is not to try to deliberately cram words anyway your passive vocabulary will always be much bigger than active anyway your active words should be only ones which you need to use

[@MrAqadii]

Thank you so much , simple and effective!

[@naz6923]

Thank you sir, I appreciate your tips. You guys can also use flash cards too. Or cards with pictures. It always works. Good luck with your life. Best regards!

[@kurddata5228]

I've wrote tons of flashcard, but I am not motivated to study them :(

[@TheCapCharisma]

@@kurddata5228 Do you use Anki? If not, try it.

[@wafaeazrak1373]

❤❤

[@kurddata5228]

Thank you. I'm learning German currently. But I have no lust to revise the notes I wrote. Any motivation please?

[@НикитаШтанько-я7ж]

Thank you, very good tips and clarification in this video

[@pooldead4002]

But if the word has 3 or 4 forms like (milk is a drink from cow and to milk is to get milk from cow) so what should i do write 4 or 3 sentences

[@magritskaya]

very useful. thanks. I also record words with translations on my mp3 pleer and listen to them while drive or walk my dogs.

[@sarezhmohammed1103]

It was really a good video. Well done

[@mcmerry2846]

You have to write down different contexts.for the same words.

[@monilpatel9235]

Very insightful💡

[@nagaprasad681]

real good tips sir

[@ЭдуардМеликов-ю2ш]

Thank you !

[@milkycitizen4281]

god that's somewhy such a soft video, i love it

[@portland_russ]

Капитан очевидность в действии :) Для этого уже давно изобретены системы изучения языка, куда можно загнать текст (можно ещё и аудио), и, читая, добавлять слова в словарь, а потом штудировать. Либо просто прослушивать этот текст, читая в это время текст. Это, кстати, самый эффективный способ. А записывать слова в блокнот вам надоест не пройдёт и недели.

[@rajkumarmuthuraj3128]

Thank You. It was very useful

[@LuisJavierCruzRodriguez281]

when you are'nt living in the country where don´t speack inglish ¿what is the better to do it?

[@ViniDio]

Double question marks are used only in Spanish.

[@joseaugustopereiradesousa493]

In my opinion you could go by different approaches of internet For example, you tube classes for free, pod casts, series, films, VOA Special English, some blogs and so on. There are also available some pen pal sites where you can find a partner to talk to, free of charge. Greetings from Brazil!

[@wayward8529]

Thanks for helping

[@wafaeazrak1373]

I totally agree. Greetings from Morocco

[@funnygirl6309]

Thank you ♥️

[@KaremAhmed-u1d]

thank you so much

[@johurulhaque9366]

Thank you sir..😍

[@marcosgoodenglishneto7950]

This advace is great to learn english and memorize words

[@فاطمةعبدالستار-ن7م]

Thanks Sir

[@PaoloBaldo]

Very useful tips

[@ramisamman5674]

I don't usually listen to anyone advice, but when i do i make sure that is from a wise old guy with glasses

[@lamen476]

Invaluable suggestion!

[@unplannedsyntax]

Great, practical tips!

[@saharamer6525]

Thank you sir .

[@fahadalahmadi7311]

Thank you

[@AlaKareem]

I always write down words I memoirs words with in a context

[@lakshmanankomathmanalath]

great. thank you sir

[@dik8559]

I write down new words to my big notebook

[@tso4385]

thank you sir

[@RanchoddasShamaldaschanchad]

Yes

[@Lock20257]

Hello, thanks

[@vrindaarts1944]

Thankyou

[@lenysceballossevilla2401]

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[@andreated]

Good video

[@pooldead4002]

Thank

[@hootarosetagaya]

Thank you. :)

[@istocco]

that's exactly what I do :)

[@night-bi1gq]

Anky master key to learn new words.

[@targetpointlakshyabindu]

very effective

[@nimrajabeen3715]

2:30

[@MaruskaStarshaya]

I'm in situation when I know all this tips but still looking for a silver bullet

[@fourteen113]

the problem with vocabularies is that our ability to remember things is limited. So whatever technique you use requires time and effort. Unfortunately, there is no shortcut.

[@MuhammadAli-jd2ut]

2015 was 7 years ago.

[@cboris1000]

I wa reading the diferent opinios of them I thing very well the mind is a wall for to build

[@madushankawickramarathne5359]

Great

[@dineshkumargoyal5562]

You will learn difficult words in seconds by reading HOW TO BUILD STRONG VOCABULARY BOOK-2. It is magical, Just feel the magic.

[@maleka3671]

Danke Schön

[@HobbleGanger]

he says he's teaching us, ways to learn vocabulary or memorize it, so he spells memorize wrong.

[@WorshipYourLord]

Except he didn't make a spelling mistake at all. He simply used the British English spelling because that's where he's from. It's just like Realize (US) and Realise (UK) Both are spelled "correctly" or "incorrectly" only according to their geographic usage and because the internet is not bound by geographic boundaries he's free (and expected) to use the spelling as it is commonly used according to his location and upbringing.

[@HobbleGanger]

Oh, thanks I actually didn't know that.

[@EUGENIUS60]

memorise is English and memorize is American.

[@huangyuhao565]

The Chinese language does not have this problem at all. You remember a word once, you will know it’s meaning your whole life.

[@kurisensei]

This isn't true, in my experience

[@MrLangam]

Thank you ma nigga!

[@jasonrwhitingjr]

😂😂😂

[@korumu]

Anki

[@karwaytan]

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[@diegitofromperu]

how to memorize words? well Its easy just ask a good interpreter,,but Im pretty sure they dont want to share to anyone ,cause the have suffered a lot to get all those wise secrets...

[@betavulgaris7888]

How do you work for Cambridge ? Terrible advice. Reading for pleasure is the best way to learn new words in any language.

[@teo5146]

Beta Vulgaris Clearly you don't have a lot of experience learning new languages

[@betavulgaris7888]

Yeah i'm only on my 3rd.

[@betavulgaris7888]

It is the best though. You might know your words when they flash up on anki but your understanding of them is vastly inferior to someone who has learned them through reading. There is science to prove this. The only thing better for retaining words is by actually using them yourself in real situations with natives who are patient with you. Again, this is science. As a side note, i learned over 23000 words in French in 6 months. Just from reading. That's over 120 per day. The crux ? I didn't read every day. You don't need to. Words don't come as you can check them off and file them away as done. You will be reading and suddenly there are dozens of words that make sense to you. It's accumulative and vastly superior to flashcards or stupid post-it notes or silly courses like Duolingo. Anybody with a fantastic (especially written) command of a foreign language is the vast majority of the time without fail a voracious reader.

[@torpedo0101]

Comparing reading to writing, the former is, IMHO, a passive method of learning new vocabularies. Writing own sentences is the most worthwhile method to memorize those words that you really need.

[@betavulgaris7888]

Nope - *speaking* them is. The more senses are involved the quicker we retain. Science and junk bro.

[@aydanicer8221]

thank you very much