I just wanted to make a new video today in order to be able to share with you a

New language learning technique that I've been working on

And I'm just kind of experimenting with this. This is a one of my language notebooks and

I've never really done this before I've used language notebooks a lot in the past, but I'm kind of experimenting with a new style

Because I've seen a few different youtubers

You know kind of showed that what they do in their language notebooks, so

I'm learning Romanian

I started learning Romanian about a year ago

kind of fell off the bandwagon

Got bored of it's not that I got bored. I just got too busy really

And now I'm going to Romania this summer, so I'm trying to get back into learning some

I know I'm not going to like become fluent in Romanian before the summer but

I don't know I feel like any time I go to a new country

I want to at least make some attempts to learn that language just

In order to be able to interact with the culture that much more and even if I just learned some very basic vocabulary

Very little bit of grammar some you know pre memorized phrases

I feel like I'll just get a lot more out of my experience while I'm there

So I'm pretty excited about that and I want to kind of get my butt back into gear and start

working on my Romanian Romanian again

So I started working on this Romanian

notebook and

In the past I've used you know I've used a lot of very

Different styles of notebooks to try to learn and this is just another experiment you know

I don't know exactly how this is gonna go and I feel like I have not

Refined my technique

perfectly yet, but I just want to share this with you guys and

Who knows maybe if you guys have done something similar you might be able to spit out some ideas

and we can bounce ideas off of each other and I might be able to refine my

Technique a little bit more with this, but my whole concept for this notebook

Was that I was not going to use any English words. I was only going to use picture because I want to be able to

When I went to look through this notebook

Not have to translate these words in my head

and I don't know if that's

You know I I don't really know how this is gonna

Go is just I'm just experimenting with this so the first page

I had near first several pages is just vocabulary words, and so you can probably tell just by looking at this but

My first page is colors, and I only picked a few of the main colors. I didn't want to

you know bog my memory down with turquoise and salmon and you know and

Magenta and all this stuff, so I have you know your usual black green

white red blue yellow and

Of course the word color because that's just as important as any of the actual colors

I'm trying to make the whole book kind of colorful to make it a little bit more

Make it pop a little bit more maybe

It'll help some of these words stick in my brain a little bit more than if they're just like written in

Just plain pencil or something

Obviously the color page had to be in color, but I tried to make the whole thing a little bit more colorful too. The next

Page that I have in here is picture of the human face with a few different words for

you know

Facial organs. I'm not the best artist

but

It's that's not really important

It's as long as you're able to understand. I'll probably do another

picture of human body too that can get like feet legs you know arms

torso

Well, probably not torso. That's not really as important of a word.

I have a few pages in here about a house so outside of the house we got

The door window roof. I put a few different types of rooms in here kitchen bedroom bed

Toilet that's gonna be important

I should probably... now that I think about it, I should probably also try to put a few like

Predetermined phrases in here as well like where is the restroom. You know

I can't think of any other phrases up the top of my head, but where is the restroom would be a really useful one.

Here I have some numbers and

I really wanted to do this like I said I wanted to do it without using English words

So I didn't want to translate so what I did here for numbers was I put

One, and I did that one time and then you know for each consecutive number

I just made one more so that I would be able to tell and I only did one to five because

At least for now I don't want to

You can usually get away

without using super complex numbers right?

I think it's better to keep things simple

Like if I really have to say 15 for whatever reason then I'll just say ten and five

But then so I have one through five down here then down here. I have ten

One hundred and a thousand

So I don't know we'll see how this works we'll see if this

actually, helps me remember those numbers anymore I

Have a few different adjectives in here. I'm still working on this notebook. So I'll probably add a few more

But we have big little we have a lot a few

Happy sad

You know I'll probably add good or bad or something like that but

couldn't really think of any way to draw that. So there is definitely one

Drawback to using pictures instead of

instead of English words

I got a few words in here about nature

sun, sky

Tree, grass, oh this is... so I'm... just like I said, I'm still working on this. This is a

This is vocabulary words from

a Romanian song that I like

So I haven't I

Haven't like actually drawn gone through and drawn... I don't know if I'm gonna draw pictures for these yet or not

I don't know. We'll see.

Some of them might be kind of hard to draw pictures of and I don't even remember

You know, I don't remember what most of these are right now

So I can't talk a whole lot about them, but... actually I don't know

I don't really know what I was going for here. Maybe I'll try to draw some pictures for each one of these and then

And

Use that to help learn the song. Either that or

I'll just I'll just listen to the song while looking at this page, and then think oh yeah, I remember that word

Yeah, I noticed that word. I noticed that word. I don't know. We'll see. Like I said this is an experiment

I don't know if it's necessarily gonna work great. On this next page, and I think this is my last one

Yeah in this next page. I started writing

Words that are specific to me. Words that actually might come up in my personal

conversations with Romanian people

and I talked about this a lot and in past videos so

the problem that I see with a lot of

Prefabricated

language courses language books

Duolingo courses all that kind of stuff is that they teach you a lot of words that are irrelevant to you

like you know

You're gonna... You'll probably in your language course... If you were to take a romanian course

At college.. if they have one at your university

They're probably not gonna teach you

everything

That's just specific to you. You'll do a section on

careers and jobs and stuff, and they'lll probably teach you lawyer,

doctor, teacher,

you know

a few these main ones, but if you're not a lawyer a doctor a teacher

you know if you're a

Photojournalist, you're not gonna learn that word

But this is a huge hole on your language learning because your job is a big part of who you are, right?

And that's stuff that's gonna come up in conversations, so I like to personalize my vocabulary lists.

I don't just learn the vocabulary that they teach you at school or in the book

I make my own lists, which is really what this whole thing is

Obviously, I'm at the very early stages of learning Romanian

So I have to learn some of these very

basic

Generic words, but I also want to learn things about myself. Learn how to say things about myself, so I have... you know

United States of America

One thing about me is I really like learning languages so here

I have the word for languages, and and then I have you know the words for French Spanish English

Esperanto I have...

I believe this says I want to learn Romanian so oh

And also another reason that I wanted to make this video is

if you happen to speak Romanian

And you're watching this, I would really appreciate if you

Noticed any errors. I have in this book like you know

I think this is the word for head and that's the word for a face. I just looked these all up on wordreference.com

But if I like got these backwards or if I you know if I used a word that might technically be the right term but

People don't really use it anymore or anything along those lines

Please let me know because I don't want to go to Romania and be using the wrong words all the time

Um so

Yeah, I guess you know um that's basically everything I have in this book so far. I was thinking about

You know maybe doing a few pages on like a few of the most common verbs

like maybe I'll draw a picture of a guy walking and then

I don't know. I don't know really how I would draw pictures of all the you can't draw pictures of all the different

verb conjugations and everything

But maybe I could do some charts or something in here and so yeah

I'm just kind of did to use this technique see if it works and

oh, another thing that I might be able to use this for is

You know while I'm actually in Romania

If I you know

Can't... if I can't remember a word now probably I'll bring this book with me you know

I'll just put it in my little bag my backpack or whatever wherever I go

If I want to say something and I can't remember a word

I think this is gonna be more useful than a dictionary in some ways because

If I read through this several times

I'm gonna remember all I might not remember all the

pronunciations of all the words in here

But I'm gonna remember all the words that at least are in the book and I'll remember where to find them

So you know if I if I think to myself oh gosh, I know that I have the word blue

in this notebook

But I just can't remember the word right now. I'll just pull it out and look

I know exactly where to go to find the word blue right or eyes or

Or anything like that

And I don't know how useful that'll be like when you're in a conversation

Normally you're not gonna stop your conversation to

Pull out a book and look up the definition of a word

And if you were to do anything you would like I would just like point to my eye

rather than using the word, you know rather than pulling this out and

Finding the exact word for eye. You know you can get away with a lot of sign language and stuff

So I don't know like if that will be a big factor and this or not

But at least I'll have that option if I want to. Because sometimes you know maybe it will help because sometimes

I want to prepare what I'm going to say before I enter into a conversation with someone so in that case you know

That's not taking time out of a conversation to look up a word in in my dictionary that is

Me preparing beforehand when I actually do have time to look up those words

So that might be useful and the other thing... the other problem, the issue that I foresee with using this is I

Like to I really like to use spaced repetition, and I like learning words and context

So I don't know for sure that just like just reading through this book unless I were to read through this every night

I don't know for sure that these are actually gonna help me

Memorize these words just by reading them

But maybe they will I mean I think it'll for sure help

But that might be more of supplement to my other memorization techniques

But either way like it didn't take me very long to

Draw it like I maybe spent 20 minutes

drawing all these pictures and everything so I think is at least a worthwhile experiment and

Like I said, this is an experiment so maybe I'll find a way to refine this technique a little bit more um

If you like I said if you guys have any suggestions be sure to let me know

If you guys have done anything like this that was really useful to you

Let me know and um worst case scenario if it's not a really useful technique then

Not a big deal, I just won't do it anymore, right?

and you know I've said this before but on this channel pretty much all of the advice that I give all the tips that I

give

Are given with that attitude

Right? I'm not here trying to tell you the right or wrong way to learn languages

I am very much on this journey as well

I'm trying to figure out still some of the best

Ways, but I'm never gonna learn

I'm never gonna find those best ways of learning languages unless I try new things so that's what I'm doing here

And so I guess that's all I really have for this video