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Welcome back to our weekly live stream.

My name is Alicia, and today we're going to talk about English learning strategies.

So, yes, these are English learning strategies for today's lesson, but you can use them for any language you want to study.

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We're going to cover five ideas.

So if you're kind of stuck in your studies, maybe you can find an idea in today's lesson.

Also, if you have an idea something that's helpful for you in your language studies, you can send it in the comments and share with your fellow learners.

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So as I said today, we're talking about English learning strategies.

But you can use thes for other languages too.

So we have a lot to cover.

And again if you have some ideas Ah, that air helpful for you When you're studying languages, send them in the chat.

So maybe it can help someone else who's learning to.

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Okay, I'm going to share the video and then I'm going to begin today's lesson.

As I said today we have five points to cover.

I have chosen five things that I think can help on that have helped me, actually Ah, when studying when studying other languages.

So in my case, studying Japanese, mostly though other languages here and there when I was very young.

So let's begin with the first point.

The first point for Today's lesson I'm going to speak a little more slowly now is to study phrases to study phrases, not just single vocabulary words.

So I know, and I do this, too.

You have, like a flash cards, study app.

Or maybe you make physical flash cards and you have one word on the flash card.

So that's fine, too.

D'oh to study individual words and to understand that pronunciation of the word and the spelling of the word, that's great.

But I would also suggest to study phrases so phrase means a group of words, a group of words.

So, like not just one word at a time, but actually how your vocabulary word is used together with other words.

So there are a couple reasons this is a good thing to practice.

So first is you can understand the right situations for certain vocabulary words.

So there are some vocabulary words that are good to use in like polite situations, or they're good to use in casual situations, but not both.

So sometimes, by studying phrases and by studying sentences, you can understand which case or which situation you should use a word in.

So a great example of this is like when is it okay or when is it not okay to use a word like crazy?

So in English, we can use the word crazy in a few different situations, and they have very different meanings.

So if you practice phrases and if you practice studying like in situations, you can have a better understanding of when it's OK or not OK to use certain words.

So this is one point about studying phrases.

Second, you can actually practice making phrases and sentences.

So part of your study shouldn't just be reading, reading on listening and listening like you should be creating, like writing and speaking.

I'll talk about this in point number two, but you can actually practice making phrases and sentences if you're studying phrases and sentences.

So this means you get grammar practice.

You're practicing how to put words together.

The third points about this is you can understand how words connect to each other when you use phrases, so especially in English.

If you're studying phrases, you can put words together with like prep positions.

So a proposition is it's like those little little words like to bye at four.

Those really short words we use like to connect our words together.

So when you're studying phrases and you have to put the words together, you need to use in many cases propositions.

You'll also practice using conjunctions those words like and but or four So those words.

So if you study with phrases and not just single vocabulary words, you can practice putting the words together instead of studying like individual units says, Because sometimes I see comments, unlike the YouTube videos of the Facebook videos like How do I use Like to or When should I use to?

And it's like there are so many different ways to use it.

Sometimes it's good just to study of phrase and remember and memorize that phrase.

You get used to using it that way.

So this is Point number one is to study phrases study in sentences, not on Lee individual vocabulary words.

So just once again, one vocabulary word at a time is great and important to do, but also make sure that you study in phrases in context in situations.

Okay, let's go to point to 0.0.2, for today's lesson is to practice creating practice, creating so this means as I said before, Don't just read and listen.

This is something I have noticed with many of my students in the past and currently as well.

Many students feel very comfortable just looking at a textbook.

They check the textbook and they look at the text book and they listen during a lesson.

But they feel very shy to speak, or they really don't like to create something on their own.

So you need to make sure that you practice creating.

So that means in your lesson.

If you have a lesson, talk with your teacher.

Your teacher is there to fix your mistake, so make sure you're you're speaking in your lessons.

You're creating your own ideas.

So a couple of other ideas, uh, for creation practice are these in red.

So first you can keep a diary or keep a journal in English.

So a diary or journal In this case, they really mean the same thing.

You just have a regular log, so this can be like a notebook next to your bed, or it can be something you write at lunch.

Another idea is like to make a note file on your computer and you write every day in English eso those air different styles of journal I would suggest when you can write by hand.

So if you write by hand, it's really, really good practice.

It makes you go a little more slowly to and you think about the things that you're writing, so write by hand whenever possible.

So that means try not to use just your smartphone or to type on your computer.

Try to write by hands to practice.

So these are two ways to practice your writing to practice making sentences in writing.

Another idea is to use social media so you could create a Twitter feed, Twitter account or an INSTAGRAM account.

And you could practise writing things there and maybe even make connections with native speakers and other learners online.

Actually, this is something I do on all of my social media posts.

For those of you who follow on social media, maybe you've seen this.

I tried to post at least on instagram uh, everything in English and in Japanese, so I tried to use both languages every time I make a post.

This is kind of one of the ways I study, so I do this because sometimes I realize I don't know, a vocabulary word, or I need to check a grammar point or something.

And so when I need to check that I go to a dictionary or I go to, you know, I do some research to check.

Is my grammar correct?

Is there a more natural way to say this?

So for me, this actually has been really good.

Like, really life practice, Really?

Life study.

So this is something that you might find it helpful as well.

Okay, Uh, another idea.

For those of you who are comfortable with it, you could record a regular video log or an audio log so you don't have to like, post this.

You don't have to post this on YouTube or anything, but maybe you could, like, use your smartphone or use the camera on your computer to make an audio or video recording, maybe every day or maybe three times a week or something.

And you can use that to practice your speaking so you don't have to be perfect.

You don't have to be perfect.

Actually, you probably won't be perfect.

None of us are.

So you can do that.

And just keep it on your computer or keep it on your smartphone and you can review it to to check your progress.

So that's another thing that's interesting to d'oh.

Ah, one more is to write a blood.

You could try writing a blogged in the language that you're learning.

So this is just a list of a few ideas for ways that you can practice creating so again, not just listening, not just reading, but actually making something of your own.

Because, yes, it's useful to find like patterns that you can use.

So if you find a good vocabulary word or a nice expression to use, that's great.

But you need to practice making your own ideas, sharing your own opinions, so make sure that you are creating as well.

So just a few ideas for how to do that.

Okay, if you those are 1st 2 points.

If you have questions or if you have other ideas, please make sure to send them along in the comments.

For now, we'll take one quick break and then we'll continue to points three and four for today.

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I showed you a view of these at the beginning of today's lesson.

But again, if you have not checked recently, we have a free PDS and a lot of new ones.

Actually, these air vocabulary all share this one thes our vocabulary and expression related PDS.

So as I just talked about with point number one study phrases these will give you on this case.

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I have to say on this one, for example, their actual phrase is not just single vocabulary words but expressions like go to the movies or go to a concert or go to cut Okay, in this case.

So make sure you're studying phrases you confined phrases, full sentences, other expressions with thes This one's the hobbies.

Leisure activities one.

This is one for this'll ones, the family and relatives one but their expressions.

For the first time you meet someone on the back.

So thes are if you don't have any ideas for where to start learning expressions, where to start learning phrases and expressions, you can check these out so you could find these from the link below the video.

If you're watching on YouTube.

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All right, so with that, let's continue to part points three and four for today.

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Okay, let's continue on to the next point for today's lesson.

0.0.353 point for you here.

So I talked about this as an idea, but I know many people want to work on their pronunciation.

Lots of people like how do I improve my pronunciation?

What should I do?

I have no native speaker to practice with or I have no teacher.

What should I do?

Hear some ideas.

This point is specifically to practice speaking and to work on pronunciation as well.

So the idea is to record yourself speaking record yourself speaking so you can use a smartphone.

Just record yourself with the microphone on a smartphone, you can use your computer.

If you have another kind of audio recorder, you can use that again.

You do not have to post this recording anywhere.

That's totally fine.

It's just for you to use, so the reasons were rather okay.

I'll talk about the reasons in a second.

This is the three step process that you can consider to practice speaking and practice pronunciation.