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today's topic is technology meets
technique the 7 tested timeless ways to
learn a language what's the best way to
learn a language when you first started
learning the language you probably
thought about this there are a ton of
study methods but do they all work and
are they worth your time in today's
episode you're going to learn number 1
the 7 tested learning techniques and
number 2 the technologies that you can
use for each one but first listen up
here are this month's new lessons and
resources first the brand new must know
bow cab and phrases for food ebook if
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download it right now
next the how's the weather PDF cheat
sheet if you can't yet talk about
weather in your target language then
you're missing out download this cheat
sheet to start speaking more then
there's the top 15 ways to improve your
listening skills discover the language
learning hacks and tricks that will
improve your listening skills in minutes
and finally learn how to express
negative emotions with this one-minute
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let's jump into today's topic technology
meets techniques the 7 tested timeless
ways to learn a language so for each of
the 7 you get a learning technique and
the technology this technology will help
you learn how to apply the technique
these learning methods and tools will
help you get fluent faster guaranteed
alright the first learning technique
here is having talking points and the
technology for it
vocabulary lists so one big problem most
beginners have is you run out of things
to say your vocabulary is limited you
can't talk about your interests and you
can't last long in a conversation and
the solution talking points or topics to
talk about like whether food or hobbies
just imagine a conversation you start
with greetings you move on to what you
did over the weekend weekend
that's one talking point you went to a
restaurant that's another talking point
you can explore if you know all the
words and phrases for these points you
can speak more of the language so how do
you build a list of talking points use
our free vocab lists our vocab lists
give you all of the relevant words and
phrases for specific topics sports
travel food hobbies holidays daily
routines if you want to talk about food
pull up the relevant vocab lists and
you'll quickly learn all the necessary
words phrases and questions now you can
use food as a talking point in a
conversation then you can jump over to
weather or sports the more talking
points you have the more you'll be able
to speak number 2 shadowing a powerful
way to speak more of the language the
technology here is the line by line
dialogue shadowing is simply repeating
what you hear you can apply this
technique with any resource that has
audio but if you're using our lessons
listen to a lesson dialogue read along
and try to read out loud and shadow the
native speaker this is a proven
technique that will seriously improve
your speaking and the line-by-line
dialogue tool makes it easy for you to
listen and shadow one line at a time
this way you're not overwhelmed by a
fast native level conversation okay
technique number three building your own
language profile the technology you'll
want for this is the word bank first
what's a language profile a language
profile is your personal list of words
and phrases that are relevant to you
what do I mean by that let's say you're
20 years old you'll want to talk about
school your life your goals your weekend
plans you'll want to learn slang and if
you're 40 you don't want to talk about
school right you may want to talk about
your kids your work and vacations so a
language learning profile is a list of
words and phrases relevant to you your
age where you're from your culture your
interests and your passions if you're
passionate about baseball then your
profile would have a list of words and
phrases about the sport so how do you
build a profile if you're using our site
use the word bank this is your personal
collection of words when you come across
new words or phrases in our lessons or
vocab lists you can save them to the
word bank and the result is you have a
collection of words and phrases that
match your interests and lifestyle your
language learning profile number four
spaced repetition learning a great way
to learn new words fast the technology
that helps you apply this method is
flashcards
but first what spaced repetition
learning imagine you're sitting in front
of a teacher they're quizzing you on
vocabulary by showing you flashcards
with the word on the front and the
answer on the back if you don't know a
word you'll see it again today and
tomorrow and again and again until you
get it right but if you get it right
you'll see it maybe in four days then
seven days then in 14 days that's how
spaced repetition works you review words
over a spaced amount of time so you
never forget them this is a powerful
method for memorizing new vocab and
phrases but you don't have to sort words
and force yourself to review at later
dates that's where the technology comes
in the flashcards if you're using our
website just head over to our space
repetition of flashcards to take
advantage of this learning method
the fifth technique focus on the high
frequency words or the most common words
first the technology the mm core word
lists a list of the mm must know words
and phrases so why is this technique
powerful well the fact is there are tons
of words out there that you don't need
to know if you're a beginner you need to
learn hello and how are you and not
random words like aardvark and cement
and with the mm core word list you get
2,000 carefully selected words and
phrases broken down by category and this
is more than enough for conversational
fluency you can learn the top 100 words
first then the top 200 300 and so on
until you know them all remember you can
use flashcards or the word bank to study
them number six
learning with timely relevant and
cultural lessons the technology the free
daily dose of language app for the
iPhone iPad and Android let's say today
is a holiday like Valentine's Day or
something seasonal like the start of
spring something everyone knows and
talks about can you talk about it in
your target language the truth is most
learners can't they're not getting
timely relevant lessons from their
textbooks or apps but with a daily dose
of language app you get timely lessons
holiday lessons and cultural lessons to
improve your language and if you can
talk to a native speaker about a holiday
or a cultural point you're making some
serious language progress
what makes this tools so powerful is
that it also keeps you on track with
daily reminders you can download our
daily dose of language app for free on
the site or search for it on the App
Store or Google Play
all right the 7th technique is getting
feedback from a native the technology
one-on-one learning with your Premium
Plus teacher so without a doubt getting
feedback and corrections is the best
language practice you can get if you
have a Premium Plus plan you can send
questions have casual exchanges or just
practice with your teacher
they'll send corrections and feedback so
that you're always improving your
teacher will also send you a
assignments and they'll hold you
accountable you can also record yourself
and your teacher will do a voice
analysis they'll tell you just how close
you are to a native speaker and how to
improve and that's it I'll write
everyone in the last monthly review we
asked you to submit a video or audio
file of yourself speaking the language
introducing yourself in the language so
thank you to all of you that sent in
submissions you've all received a
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now let's take a look at some of the
videos ok so I am about to check out the
audio files that you have all sent to us
for this month so I'm very excited to
have a listen let's begin
hey Alicia how are you doing
misery I am from India have been
learning English since one year with the
help of your YouTube channel English
calm I am learning English to advance my
career to improve my communication
skills and to get better job
opportunities learning English is very
easy and fun and I learn English through
your YouTube channel watching movies TV
series and etc reading books and they
are helping me to improve my English and
thank you teacher once again for improve
my English with your YouTube challenges
cosmonaut 1.com cool thanks very much
for this message that sounds like a good
idea using lots of media to help you
with your studies I think that's good
because you pick up lots of really
natural expressions that way so thank
you so much for sending this that's
really cool and good luck with your
continued studies that's awesome
okay I'm gonna go to the next one lay
hello others show how are you doing I
hope you're doing great my name is Rajan
I'm from Columbia Columbia I think I've
been studying English for almost two
years and I've been watching your video
lessons for five or six months months
maybe yeah something like that
and I'm just reading this because I'm
really into like we just you know I love
language again I want to learn many
languages and also and because I want to
start just letting translation one of my
long-term goals is like to leave and
study in Canada so I really like to
improve my English right I focus a lot
in pronunciation and in comprehension
you know because I think it's really
hard to understand a series or a TV show
or anything right I think you stop I
think
so hard but anyway I just kept trying in
China and yeah I want to thank you
because your channel is amazing yes it's
actually amazing I love your lessons
you're really you're always trying to
keep us motivated and that's amazing you
always teach allies no strategies to
keep going and going so thank you so
much I hope everyone loved you listen
aside as I do and thank you so much
awesome buddy that was super nice that's
really interesting message I think so
far that's the first person who's
mentioned wanting to study translation
in the future and just having a general
interest in learning languages that's
really really cool and thanks so much
for the feedback about our videos and
the stuff that we make so I'm really
happy to hear that it's motivating and
it's useful so thank you so much for
sending this audio file that was awesome
okay I'm gonna go to the next one now
hello Alicia hello English class one one
team my name is aroma from Indonesia I
am 22 years old and I am a programmer I
really have to improve my grammar and
pronunciation because in September I'm
going to build a web application and
there is some foreign people in the team
so I hope we do a good communication and
there is no misunderstanding right Thank
You Ali sure thank you in this class 101
TM good bye
oh that's a really good point like
working in an international team so when
you're using English as the common
language among like your team members it
can be really important to make sure
like you're communicating clearly like
I've been a part of an international
team like we have an international team
here and it's really good to like check
in with each other a lot if you ever
think there's a misunderstanding but
that's so cool but you're thinking like
I really want to improve my grammar and
my pronunciation to avoid like any
problems or miscommunications so that's
cool and good luck with that
cool 22 and a programmer that's amazing
awesome thank you so much for this okay
let's go to the next one hi Alicia I'm
Karthik from India actually I don't know
how to start I do love to speak in
English but actually I can't because of
my low confidence and fear about my
grammar mistakes but after watched your
YouTube channel I lost my fear I can
easily speak with my colleagues through
English with the help of your YouTube
videos and website so I give you a big
thank you books and watching English
movies I know it won't be possible
without English but I now I watched my
favorite movies in English as well as
reading my louder books reading is one
of my biggest hobby but English reading
is possible by you guys only thank you
everyone
and I'm still learning cool that's
awesome so this person mentioned he was
like kind of feeling low in the
confidence in the confidence area about
his English speaking but wanted to
you know work on actually using it in
his life and was able to do that like
partially through like watching our
videos and checking things out with us
so I'm so happy to hear that and I think
that's like really cool that you were
able to do that too so I hope other
people who are worried about you know
their pronunciation or making mistakes I
hope other people try to push past that
fear and practice too and this person
said he really enjoyed books reading
books too so that's something I like as
well so reading books in English now too
is possible that's awesome that was a
really positive update thank you so much
for sending that very cool okay let's go
to the next one
hello my name is hi Izzy I'm from Brazil
hello and I'm longing to see because we
like it this language it is a global
language in me sure that I get a good
level English I will have more
opportunities of jobs and travels and I
love to make friends around the world in
the use English to try to communicate
with others mm-hmm so this is a reason
that I mean learn English cool
so she mentioned yeah like wanting to
make friends around the world and just
having more opportunities as well I
think those are some really big common
themes but yeah that was really cool so
I hope that you continue with your
studies that was easy to understand and
you sounded very positive as well nice
thank you for sending this okay
on to the next one
hello Alicia hi I am how much room isn't
I'm 28 years old my dream is to speak
English fluently I am studying English
in order to get a better job
you know more about American culture so
I watch you all your videos on YouTube
thank you can follow you on facebook
nice I want to thank you for your
efforts that you make to learn me the
best way to master English Wow cool
thank you very much for watching our
videos and for following our Facebook
page that's great I hope that you
continue with your learning and I hope
that we can continue to make things that
are useful for you and you mentioned
like your goal is to speak English
fluently too so I hope that you can like
you know make really specific goals as
well that can help you in achieving your
goal of getting a fluent in English
someday so good luck with your continued
studies and thank you so much for
sending this message that's awesome
okay onward
hi Alicia Howard I hope you're doing
great
my name is Vlad and I'm from Ukraine
I've been learning English for a few
years
I'm studying because I want to live and
to work in the USA I also want to travel
to the USA in the next year for a
vacation to improve my skills and have a
goal for the next year to become fluent
in English so help me God I have an
arrogant e-courses
for learning English so I think I'm
making good progress thanks for your
videos bye that's super cool so he wants
to go to the USA to improve his skills
but he says he's never taken like an
official course to study English he's
been using our videos and I assume like
using lots of different media resources
on the Internet to practice that's great
you sound very confident and you have
like this clear goal to go to the States
and it's a good luck with your improving
English goal for the next year I hope
you have lots of good experiences and
you can use English in your travels a
lot - that's awesome great so we had a
lot of super positive
as always super positive and some very
confident sounding people with some
great goals for this year so good luck
to everybody with your goals for the
next year and thank you so so much for
sending us some audio files to listen to
you this month thank you so which entry
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