How to learn English vocabulary | The best way to remember new words

Learning new vocabulary is one of the most important parts of learning a language.
But what is the best way to do it?
If you have problems learning and remembering new English vocabulary, or you forget English words quickly, it's probably because of the WAY you are studying.
In this video, I'll explain the best way to learn and remember new English vocabulary, and it's NOT about the memorisation of lists of words in your textbooks!
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[@vanessappp5672]

"Pretender" in Portuguese is "to intend" - a false friend too! Excellent video! More, more!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏

[@pagani29]

Do you speak Italian? I find it curious that the meaning of the word "morbid" in Portuguese is more like English than Italian. After all, Italian and Portuguese have the same root, but the number of English words with Latin roots is large.

[@peterfoxts]

@@pagani29 It comes from Latin morbus, in Italian has changed meaning through the centurie, in Frenche morbid eis like in English, we say morboso for morbis

[@vanessappp5672]

Hi Altamir! Mórbido - PORTUGUESE It's the same meaning that in English

[@vanessappp5672]

@@peterfoxts Hi Pietro. Mórbido - PORTUGUESE It's the same meaning that in English!

[@pagani29]

I found it interesting because Italian is the language closer to Latin than Portuguese or, mainly, English. But about the war. It was centuries of history; who knows?

[@ВладиславаУсольцева]

I was the first. Cristian, thank you very much. I've been learning the language about 3 year listening and using your advices. You're amazing!

[@myenglishteachermissgreene538]

He is an awesome teacher. Good luck on your English journey.

[@ВладиславаУсольцева]

@@myenglishteachermissgreene538 Thanks a lot. I agree with you, he's the best who could ever help me (and not only) to travel the "English world".

[@gianlucasoffredini2479]

Thank you very much Christian. There are many false friend in English for an Italian native speaker. Your explanation was great and very useful to me. But above all I want to thank you for what you said about Italy and the awful moment we are living nowadays. Thank you very much for your solidarity. I really like your way to teach and to explain concepts with smile. So I'm going to follow your new videos with pleasure. Have a nice day.

[@felipemoreira8308]

It's about competition. You recording a video and that lady talking enthusiasticly on the phone lol

[@paolokowalski8495]

Don' t remember that he was a guest)))

[@Динара-о1о]

Why haven't I seen your videos before???? Thank you so much for this precious information! Please, carry on doing this magic

[@preeyaporntrakarnchan2276]

Fantastic Christian 👍

[@EVERNASCHE]

Insteristing this is video amazing

[@OlavoLuisatto]

Excuse me. Hello Christian. I've been watched your full video. I liked your pronunciation. Clear. Understandable but with English subtitles. I'm subscribed to your channel. Thank you. Greetings from BRZ. São Paulo State, (but? I hate carnival, ok?) It does not represent me!! See you, Christian!!

[@fely1808]

I was very excited about this video !! I am going to apply this technique which is very fun and entertaining! Thanks!

[@Johan-vk5yd]

False friends forces you to get to know the origins of synonyms obviously! And you remember the meanings. Thank you for pointing this out so well! I can add that the italian word ”finta” obviously entered the swedish language via soccer. ”Avledande manöver”was hardly any competition!

[@AndreKavernista]

'Actually' is a false-friend with Portuguese. "Atualmente" means "Nowadays"

[@peterfoxts]

The same in Italian

[@abeurakadabeura]

@@peterfoxts And same in French ^^ And another one : library =/= librairie (French) but "bibliothèque"

[@peterfoxts]

@@abeurakadabeura Biblioteca in Italian in Romance languages we use a Greek word, English a Latin one, so funny

[@adampajda3204]

The same in Polish, "aktualnie" it means currently ^^

[@arcesol]

Same in Spanish “actualmente” means “nowadays” in English

[@mauriziomigliorini3839]

Grazie Cristian È molto bello il tuo video da Torino in questo momento così difficile per l’Italia e mi dispiace un po’ per il “casino” 😁 delle persone in sottofondo che non è molto educato nei tuoi confronti. In ogni caso molto rispetto per le tue lezioni che mi consentono di crescere nella conoscenza della tua lingua e della tua cultura. Da Italiano grazie ancora e spero di rivederti spesso qua in giro. P.s.: faint sems like “fare una finta” in soccer by Pelé

[@pagani29]

Saluti del Brasile! Io ho studiato Italiano tanti anni fà ma me ricordo bene della sorpresa che è stata quando ho sentito la parola "morbido" con un senso diverso del Portoghese.

[@mimmoguarino]

@Maurizio Migliorini Beh! All'inizio anche a me ha dato molto fastidio la voce della signora in sottofondo oltre che avermi imbarazzato come italiano. Ma a ben pensarci il video è stato girato in un ambiente lavorativo e quella signora stava facendo solo il suo lavoro. Forse Christian lo ha fatto volutamente, forse ha voluto inserire un elemento di disturbo a scopo didattico in modo da rendere la situazione di apprendimento più realistica per l'ascoltatore (vedi anche il suo video girato per strada, sempre a Torino, con in sottofondo i rumori di auto, moto e tram) . Almeno spero!

[@viaggiatorenotturno8802]

Io dubito che Christian volesse inserire un elemento di disturbo in sottofondo, anche perché non ne capirei l'utilità. Temo piuttosto che la signora non sia pratica di audiovisivi e dunque non immaginasse che la sua voce sarebbe stata captata da microfono in modo così invadente e sgradevole. Christian probabilmente non ha detto alcunché per timore di offenderla visto che era stata così gentile da offrirgli la possibilità di fare le riprese in quella interessante location.

[@rafaelfreitas6297]

You are the best

[@gabrielinacio6331]

Wow man, this was one of the most brilliant explanations I´ve ever watched. Thanks, Chris you rock BRO!!!

[@soledadearcoverde3223]

Christian, I listen to some teachers at you tube. All of them are very good teachers, but What I most like in your videos is the scientific way to explain the language. Thank you!

[@injujuan8993]

Ciao Christian! I'm a huge fan of yours and it's fantastic to see you is such a beautiful place. The library looks so inviting. I actually liked the background voices speaking Italian. It added color to the whole picture. Thank you for all your insights and for a glimpse inside Torino library. Love from Almaty ❤👍🌷

[@Almaleksia]

Why when I lesten to you I can understand what you say, but when I talk whis my on-line teacher I can't understand anything?! You are amazing! Thank you!

[@patiperrobrazilienses3567]

Me Neither!

[@fabianogama39]

I usually learn words as I encounter them in a text I'm reading, listening or both, but when I do use lists of words I create stories using the words (or expressions) Im trying to learn, tell this storis out loud, wich is a good exercise, and keep twisting these stories in different ways as new words come in to the mix. Also I imagine a fictional character I'm talking to while telling these stories and they are always making me repetitive questions, which makes me repeat those words many many times until they sink in. I'll incorporate questions about how the words are formed and the relationships between words in different languages like in this video. The more conections we create the better we learn.

[@gypzino]

Hi christian, Well,this location is actually louder than the previous one... Thank you for your lessons!

[@استبرق-ش5ز]

Thanks my best teacher

[@libanialimaribeiro1745]

You are amazing..

[@francinefeder7164]

I love you. corrective I love your courses. I'm happy to see you again. continue for all of us

[@Fordika1]

Cristian, thank you very much. I've been learning the language about 3 year listening and using your advice. You're amazing! I copy the comments because I not so to good in writing

[@Renata_Nit]

Hey Christian! I missed you! I miss your joy... ❤️

[@lauralualdi8769]

Meraviglioso come sempre a parte la telefonata fastidiosa in sottofondo!

[@ariadnahaydeecastillosanch2854]

Christian I have been struggling with the prepositions at the end of questions or sentences , might be because prepositions are difficult to me and also I feel frustrated to talk about abstract topics in English. Thank you for all your videos because has enlighted me a lot.

[@saralazar2105]

wow the first comment , you’re amazing Christian thumbs up

[@oldeagle5942]

Hi, I'm reading "Etymologicon" at the moment and it's really amazing. I discovered for exemple the different meanings of peter (I never knew that!.) Fantastic, it's worth reading it.

[@injujuan8993]

Thanks for you suggestion. Sounds like a good read❤👍

[@ольгаюдина-я8е]

Thank you for your existence. You make my morbit life a little better.

[@patiperrobrazilienses3567]

Hello from London! A brazilian student who loves Canguro English 😊

[@esra2146]

The lady on the phone is as noisy as a busy street..Anyway thanks Christian..

[@mariliaferreira4932]

Hehe

[@selmasafar7573]

Thanks Christian! The words PUSH in English and PUXE in portuguese. The meanings are completely different.

[@danielsabbath7435]

Hi Christian. The word morbid in portuguese also has the same meaning as in english. The strangest of all is that Portuguese as well as Italian and Spanish and French are also Latin languages. What I find a bit strange is that in Italian it should also have the same meaning because Italian was derived from the Latin spoken by the ancient Romans. Best Regards from Brazil.

[@gretabigoni7979]

He explained why, it's not like ALL our words stick to the original sense of latin meaning. If that was the case, my classmates and I would have always scored 10/10 during latin classes in highschool :P

[@shajikrishnan9597]

thank you sir

[@rasha4056]

Excellent Approach, as always yrs Mr.Chris. Thank you

[@marcelstutz1035]

That's a good explanation about false cognates but I don't think the title is appropriate for the content of this video.

[@giorgiaferrari6135]

Ciao Christian! Ti seguo sempre, sei fantastico, ti adoro

[@benjaminestrada1670]

Thankyou so much greetings from México

[@КонстантинЛисицын-х2х]

Man I've missed you so much :)

[@tveasy5172]

great explanation of meaning of similar words, thanks

[@simone-zu7qh]

I'm Italian and I remember when we had English at school, learning the different meanings of false friends. For instance I hated the fact that "actually" doesn't mean "attualmente" , or that "eventually " doesn't equal to "eventualmente"... Ahaha Such a struggle!! But luckily my mind got used to it and now it's kind of automatic.

[@pagani29]

In Portuguese it's the same. But I studed Italian too and I remember the surprise when I learned the word "salire". There is the word "sair" in Portuguse, very similar, but with meaning different. In Portuguese "sair" is to exit and "salire" is "subir" .

[@mariliaferreira4932]

Really

[@inarticulado]

@@pagani29 It's amazing how the words "behave" so differently in languages so similar like Italian and Portuguese! About the "eventually", besides the difference between English and Portuguese, I see sometimes people using "eventualmente" as the same meaning as in English (off course by people who probably use English a lot, I guess). Anyway, all about competitions like Christian said...

[@thechatbox18]

Hi! Christian. Glad to see you in Turino. Yes, much safer place now :-) I was thinking that fake can be related to feint and feing as well. ? Thank you! This video goes directly to your devoted friends from the Chat Box right away!

[@Canguroenglish]

It's so good to see you!

[@hawky44]

I loved your vídeo. Just for the record: the word feint (and because - i suppose - of its sound in english) became "finta" in portuguese. Very much related to soccer games.

[@hawky44]

Or the verb in portuguese "driblar" (noun =drible) which is equal to "fintar".

[@isoldedeig3546]

Thank you!

[@MontyTodieforme]

In spanish for example Morbido/a is exctly the same meaning in Italian and English (Suave o morboso) but when it's reference to a person is completly different because "una persona morbida" is a person very very fat with serious problems of health

[@nazzarenogavini2649]

I love learning false friends, Christian. There are lots of english words similar to the italian words but with different meanings. So happy to have you here in Italy! Any plan to come to Rome? 👋

[@megosega3176]

There is a word in Russian which pronounce - concretniy. It means - specific or certain. But the most popular meaning of "concrete" in English is different. Sometimes these words are really confusing!

[@peterfoxts]

Concrete has a double meaning, one of which is similar to the Russian, a French loan, concrete, In Italian concreto. Poka

[@ruzannamanukyan6636]

I missed you Christian. Welcome back!!!!

[@almacarrara]

I'm Italian and I would like to say that in Italian the verb "pretendere" also has the same meaning of "pretend". It is a synonim of "fingere", to lie to be something you are not. The word "morbid" comes from the same Latin root "morbus" and in Italian "morbo" also is synonim of "malattia". And "morboso" is the correct translation of "morbid". Very similar words! Maybe both words are "true friends" and not "false friends". :-)

[@philipohmes9395]

False Friends has another theory in language development...the Cognate. False and True Cognates of two or more related languages. German and English have thousands such words. Now with the word feint, when I first heard you say it, I was thinking of its homonym faint, which means to temporarily lose consciousness. For all of those synonyms that occur, to the rescue is my Thesaurus. About the only time I use this book, is when writing...poems, a report or even a chapter in a book or related concept paragraphs. I have a habit of using the same word more than once when writing sentences of a similar concept; to the rescue is a Thesaurus search for words that have a close enough meaning. That way when I write, the words to not become redundant. Sometimes though I will open a page in a dictionary or a Thesaurus and read a page to just learn something new about the English language and have my "ah ha" moment of I did not know that information. To sit there though and learn a list of words simply does not work very well with me no matter which language I am learning about.

[@private6886]

Be healthy.

[@fernandob.7739]

Actually, constipated, carpet, dessert, library, pretend, remove are several examples in english that it´s easy to confuse the meaning in Spanish language. Be careful! I´ve just seen a list on internert with fifty words to review again with the most frequent false friend words.

[@sidneypires1769]

Hello teacher, there're more similar words in Portuguese than you think!! Try to search 🤝🏿🙏🏿 God bless you!!

[@alicjaplatzer2966]

Thanks, from POLAND 🇵🇱👍

[@garenne0169]

i find your youtube chanel very interesting, i mean, you are going in depth in many concepts of english language. And this is helpful to understand better (quicker) a language. Last but not least, i don't feel you have someting to sell...like many others chanel. May be we can call it passion...Thanks a lot.

[@jricartgonzalez]

How many languages does he speak? I'm amazed, o en castellano, estoy impresionado!

[@ManishKumar-qh2br]

Do we really need to learn synonyms of new words to improve our vocabulary??? . . . Whenever I try to Learn new words I easily learn through definitions and examples but I can't remember synonyms it's discourage me to learn new words 😔 What do I do???

[@alejj2006]

i'm thinking 'bout feint and the term "dribble" comes up to my mind. Whats the relationship between them?

[@tadeuszbloki2971]

In Polish we have a word 'ewentualnie' which is so similar to 'eventually'. Every Polish native speaker is suprised when they find out these words have compleatly different meaning and even if they know it, they confuse them. Thank you and greetings!

[@ЕкатеринаХвальнова]

Thank you Christian. I've really enjoyed this video. Even despite the fact that I don't know English very well I understand every your words. I'm sorry if I made a mistake)))

[@ОльгаВишнякова-л2п]

These voices in. the background are awful. But thanks a lot for the video! It's Great!!!

[@chiara8830]

In Italian there's also the word " morbilità " that means morbidity and the word " morbo " that comes from Latin " morbus " and means " desease" .Doctors use the word morbidità instead of morbilità from English medical literature

[@celsofranco71]

I went to the end of the video, but the couple talking in background really bothered me. Thanks Christian anyway.

[@andrevadyaskin164]

This Italian woman that spoke all the time did she really not understand that she prevented dear Christian to give us the important lesson on vocabulary ? 😊 That is what emancipation has done. 😊 Hello from cold Russia with hot wishes.

[@felizardoagostinhomarrer-mp2cf]

What is the difference between vocabulary and grammar?

[@RegionalFoodJapan]

I wish this method worked for Asian students….

[@luizantoniofranciscopinto8484]

Very good video. I'm from Brazil and I always try to relate the words in English with their roots, mainly latin. Tks.

[@hugoespinoza1878]

In Spanish "finta" is equivalent to "feint"...just as Messi does...

[@angy371]

Grazie Christian per essere in Italia in un momento così difficile per noi. Sei il migliore! The best in the world!

[@Alex-tr1cx]

Thanks a lot. But my English is is't good for understand it. Who can give me short tips from this video, please😮?

[@private6886]

Hi man!

[@carlosnovillo2268]

Mórbido en castellano puede tener ambos significados

[@radiotory]

4:22 the movement means in Russian "let's drink some vodka" 🥃🤪😁

[@noemialsur255]

In Spanish we say fingir or pretender, thanks for your love for the roots of the words It's very interesting and help me to understand and learn.

[@morpheus759]

Thanks for clear English and the interestenging topic.

[@juliolois8064]

I ENJOY ALL YOUR CLAS.aND LOVE THE WAY YOU TEACH US YOUR LENGUAJE.. IS ENTERTAINED AND ENLIGTHENED

[@tyapkaa4482]

Hello from Russia I love your videos And classes

[@Almaleksia]

Hello from Russia too:) how do you learn English? Do you use italki?

[@vkballen5253]

Those words have many in common some words have not much differences, en español la palabra pretender que en Ingles es pretend que es casi el mismo significado que fingir todas tienen conexión, todas se basan en un objetivo que no se llevara a cavo, morbid en Español es morbido que tendria el mismo significado, lo que quiere decir esa palabra no tiene ninguna diferencia tanto en Ingles como en Español

[@eduardoangelonipedron9961]

Hi Christian. I really love your Chanel.

[@iatgv007]

in Roumanian ,morbid' means the same like in English.

[@mariaodilahilariocioffi9361]

In Portuguese is ”morbido” in the same sense of English

[@pavlokhomenko5534]

Without competition we couldn’t grow

[@sgviti]

In italian there is Morboso (by Morbo) that has similar meaning of Morbid

[@Ibuprofen200mg]

Papa in Sanskrit mean sin but in Latin mean father.

[@myenglishteachermissgreene538]

I believe vocabulary is the foundation of learning🗣 English. ,👌👍

[@Laura-xz9ev]

I like your accent in Italiano... I wonder if you can speak in Italian? Ma che ci fai a Torino?

[@cagatayyasar82]

Thank u Christian, but there is so much voice mixed, i hardly focused on.

[@sansansoe6442]

The way you laugh is cute and all of your lessons are nice.

[@estebancaballero2004]

Pretender in Spanish means to intend.

[@Angelok079]

Thank you very much

[@hungpham_crypto]

Thanks for your videos!

[@ros3821]

Hi Cris! In which city do you living?

[@silvanamarceca170]

Ciao Torino....that is my city but I moved to UK for job reason... that bookshop is amazing.... your lesson inside that ancient shop is amazing...thank you

[@josenandesilva8612]

Why I easily understand you but I can't understand other people?

[@EnglishforFOOTBALLFANS]

Josenande Silva English teachers, like myself, learn to ‘grade their language’. Teachers don’t use phrasal verbs or idioms as much as when speaking naturally.

[@luisesteban-manzanaresfern3676]

In spanish we have the word mórbido that means quite similar to english morbid I mean related to disease, but also, probably the same latin root, means soft but this meaning is not usually used.

[@emankhleif2543]

That makes sense

[@joanzensillystuff2285]

Some of my favorite words are similar to "false friends" but related with pronuntation. Specially words that written equal or almost equal in Catalan, Spanish and English but the pronuntation is totally different in every language. Lately I fond of some words like: delicat-delicado-delicate pioner-pionero-pioneer carnivor-carnivoro-carnivorous. I find really beautiful how these words are pronouced in English. It fascinates me!

[@benvenutocolaianni2463]

Nice video in my city Christian In Italy as usually there always someone who speaks disturbing me

[@clayton2445]

(ENG) Realize: perceber (PT) (PT) Realizar: to make something (ENG)

[@sergeb78]

False friends, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, are 3 main challenges when learning English from French. Maybe it is the same from Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, which are Roman languages derived from Latin (and Greek). False friends because there are many Latin based words common to both languages, thanks to William the conqueror (1066 CE). Read the beginning of the novel "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott, where he compares indigenous Saxons with the Norman invaders who substituted "veal", "beef" and "pork" to "calf", "ox" and "swine" when talking about what you eat. Then as a tree has several branches, so did Latin roots give rise to several meanings in different languages. Due to competition and competition. English and French have been like two rival brothers (or sisters). "If you go right I will go left, provided I do not end up like you !" I guess for a German or Scandinavian speaker the challenge will be to learn all the Latin based words because they don't have as much as English which is the most latinised of all German languages. But they share most of the German based roots, don't they ? It seems to me that, in English, for every word German based there is an equivalent from Latin. For example "to hold" would have as a cousin "to maintain", "room" has "chamber", "help" and "aid", ... Is it not so ? Wouldn't it be interesting to have a dictionary that gives for each Latin based English word its equivalent in German. A wonderful dictionary, in my opinion, is "Longman advanced Dictionary of Contemporary English" but alas it lacks etymology for better memorising new words. I "pretend" there is nothing like etymology to help you familiarise with new words ... but that is a pretentious assumption ;)