The English Study Method That's Better Than 99% of English Teachers
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Aning Alexander of English Evolution shares a step-by-step method to improve conversational English using videos. Viewers are guided through selecting an engaging video, analyzing language with subtitles, noting unknown words and phrases, looking up definitions and collocations, creating sentences, making flashcards, writing talking points, summarizing the video, and listening repeatedly to internalize phrases. The process emphasizes deep engagement with content for effective language learning.
Takeaways
- 😀 Choose a video that is interesting and understandable to you, ideally with 70% comprehension.
- 🎬 Watch the video initially without subtitles to grasp the general idea.
- 📚 Re-watch the video with subtitles and analyze the language, noting unfamiliar words and phrases.
- 📝 Write down whole phrases and words that are new to you, focusing on those you don't use.
- 🔍 Look up definitions for unfamiliar words, using trusted dictionaries or AI like Chat GPT.
- 🔗 Find collocations (common word pairings) for these words on resources like Yogish to understand usage.
- 📖 Write sentences using the new words and collocations to practice their context.
- 🔖 Create flashcards with the phrases and collocations to aid memorization.
- 📝 Write talking points about the video's key points to prepare for discussions.
- 📝 Write a summary of the video in your own words, incorporating the new vocabulary.
- 🎧 Listen repeatedly to the video to internalize phrases and vocabulary, using apps or playlists.
Q & A
What is the main purpose of the video?
-The main purpose of the video is to show viewers how to use videos to improve their conversational English, specifically by analyzing language and learning new vocabulary and phrases.
What is the first step in using videos to improve English according to the video?
-The first step is to choose a video that is interesting and can be understood by at least 70%. The video should be at an appropriate level for the viewer.
Why is it important to watch the video without subtitles first?
-Watching the video without subtitles first helps the viewer to get the gist of what the video is about and understand the main ideas without relying on the written text.
What should you do in the second step after watching the video with subtitles?
-In the second step, you should analyze the language used in the video, pay close attention to words and phrases you don't know or don't use, and write them down for further study.
Why is it recommended to write down whole phrases instead of just single words during the analysis?
-Writing down whole phrases helps in capturing the context in which words are used, making it easier to understand how to use them correctly in sentences.
What are the three parts of step three in the method described in the video?
-The three parts of step three are: 1) Look up definitions of the words, 2) Find collocations (words commonly used together), and 3) Write sentences using the new words in context.
What is the purpose of using Yogish in the method described in the video?
-Yogish is used to look up pronunciation in different English accents, learn about grammar and usage, and find collocations to understand how words are commonly used together.
Why is it beneficial to make flashcards with the collocations found on Yogish in step four?
-Making flashcards with collocations helps in memorizing the phrases and their usage, which is crucial for being able to recall and use them in conversation.
What is the purpose of writing talking points in step five of the method?
-Writing talking points helps in noting important parts of the video that you might want to discuss or explain to someone else, ensuring that you remember the key points.
What is the final step in the method described in the video for improving English through videos?
-The final step is to download the video and listen to it repeatedly until some of the phrases start to come to mind randomly, reinforcing the language learned through auditory repetition.
What additional resources are mentioned in the video for improving English?
-The video mentions a free guide on how to use videos to improve conversational English, a list of top 30 must-watch YouTube channels for improving English, and English Evolution Academy as additional resources.
Outlines
📚 Improving English with Video Method
This paragraph introduces a method to enhance English fluency by watching videos. Aning Alexander, the creator of English Evolution, suggests starting with a video that is both interesting and comprehensible, ideally with 70% understanding. The video 'Dust's Guide to Ruining Your Life' by Philosophy Channel is used as an example. The speaker emphasizes the importance of choosing a video that matches the viewer's language preference and interests. The first step is to watch the video without subtitles to grasp the general idea, followed by a second viewing with subtitles to analyze the language, noting unfamiliar words and phrases. The goal is to improve articulation, accuracy, native-like fluency, and overall language use.
🔍 Analyzing Language and Vocabulary
The speaker details the process of analyzing language from a chosen video. After identifying unfamiliar words and phrases, the next step is to look up their definitions, find collocations, and write sentences using these new terms. The example word 'spiteful' is explored, with its definition and synonyms discussed. The use of 'YouGlish' for finding collocations and understanding usage in different accents is highlighted. The speaker also demonstrates how to create sentences using the word 'spiteful' and its collocations, emphasizing the importance of context and correct usage. The process is then repeated with the term 'middle management', using Chat GPT for additional information and 'YouGlish' for collocations.
📚 Understanding Levels and Prepositions
This paragraph delves into the nuances of language, specifically the use of prepositions with the term 'middle management'. The speaker clarifies the correct usage of 'at' versus 'in' when referring to levels of management, using a WhatsApp group for quick answers. The importance of understanding whole phrases rather than isolated words is emphasized, as it provides more context and accurate language use. The speaker also discusses the word 'squalor', exploring its meaning, collocations, and common usage, highlighting the importance of studying phrases to understand language better.
📘 Creating Flashcards and Talking Points
The speaker introduces the fourth step of the language learning method, which involves creating flashcards using the collocations found from the video analysis. The use of 'Memorize' or other flashcard apps is suggested for effective learning. The speaker demonstrates how to create a course on 'Memorize' and add audio to the flashcards for better retention. Moving on to step five, the speaker explains the importance of writing talking points from the video to prepare for discussions, ensuring key points are noted and remembered. The speaker also emphasizes the value of writing summaries in one's own words to improve language sophistication and grammar.
🎧 Listening and Reviewing for Language Absorption
The final steps in the language learning method are outlined in this paragraph. Step seven involves downloading the video and listening to it repeatedly to internalize phrases and vocabulary. The speaker provides options for downloading YouTube videos, including paid and free methods, and suggests creating a playlist for easy access. The eighth and final step is to review the new vocabulary and phrases regularly, recommending the use of Google Calendar for scheduling study and review sessions. The speaker also promotes their resources, including a list of top YouTube channels for English learning and the English Evolution Academy, encouraging viewers to engage with their content.
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Keywords
💡Conversational English
💡Step Zero
💡Philosophy
💡British English
💡Collocations
💡Flashcards
💡Middle Management
💡Spiteful
💡Squalor
💡Talking Points
💡Review
Highlights
Introduction to a method for improving conversational English using videos.
Step Zero: Choose an interesting and comprehensible video.
The importance of understanding at least 70% of the video content.
Example video: 'Dust's Guide to Ruining Your Life' by Philosophy Channel.
Considerations for choosing a video based on language focus and personal interests.
Step One: Watch the video without subtitles to grasp the main idea.
Step Two: Watch the video again with subtitles to analyze the language.
Writing down unknown phrases and words for further study.
Emphasis on capturing whole phrases rather than single words.
Step Three: Look up definitions, find collocations, and write sentences.
Using online dictionaries and resources like Yogish for language study.
Creating sentences with new vocabulary to understand usage in context.
Step Four: Make flashcards using whole phrases for better retention.
Using apps like Memorize to create custom flashcard courses.
Step Five: Write talking points to summarize important video content.
Step Six: Write a summary using new vocabulary to practice writing skills.
Step Seven: Listen to the video repeatedly to internalize language patterns.
Options for downloading videos for offline listening and review.
Step Eight: Schedule regular review sessions using tools like Google Calendar.
Availability of additional resources like the top 30 YouTube channels for English learners.
Introduction to English Evolution Academy as a study alternative.
Transcripts
if you want to speak more
articulately more accurately more
natively more fluently try this
method some of you have read my free
guide on how to use videos to improve
your conversational English that is a
stepbystep written guide in this video
I'm going to show you how to do it my
name is aning Alexander and I created
English Evolution to make English easy
for non-native speakers how to use
videos to improve your English step one
wait back up Step Zero there is a Step
Zero Step Zero is choose a video that is
interesting to
you and that you can understand I want
you to be able to understand 70% or more
of the video just most of it you should
understand most of it I chose a video
called dust's guide to ruining your life
by a channel a philosophy Channel called
unsolicited advice because I like
philosophy and I like DVI it's Advanced
if you are not Advanced do not choose
this video The Creator speaks British
English so if you're only focused on
American English don't choose this video
the channel is about philosophy if you
hate philosophy do not choose this video
video the video is based on a novel by
DVI if you hate DVI you should probably
re-evaluate your life but in any case do
not choose this video so now Step Zero
you have picked a video that is very
interesting to you at the appropriate
level for
you step one is watch this video without
subtitles just to get the gist of what's
Happening Here what is this video about
everyone around him and ultimately
ruined his life so when I watched this
video for the first time I just noted
that this is a video about the main
character from Notes From The
Underground and lessons that we can
learn from him step two watch the video
again this time with subtitles and what
you're going to do is analyze the
language what I mean by that is pay
close attention to the language that
they're using and think about how you
might say something similar write down
phrases and words that you don't know
and that you don't use this needs a
little bit of explanation if you know a
word but you don't use it that means you
need to practice using it so that it
will be available when you need it so we
all have words that we know and we don't
use those words are like in our brain
somewhere but we have to like stop and
think and go look for them and sometimes
we can't find them so if you want to
speak more
articulately more accurately more
natively more fluently try this method
so in step two you're just making a list
of words and phrases that you don't know
and also words and phrases that you
don't use the second thing I want to
mention about step two I want you to try
to write down whole phrases instead of
just words when I went through this
video I wrote down words that I think a
student might need to look up so you can
see that we have mostly phrases here
with a couple single words so we're
trying to capture whole phrases when
possible and we're going to turn those
single words into phrases later I'll
show you how also I want you to notice
how long this list is I got all of these
words and phrases from 3 minutes and 18
seconds of video this is just a quarter
of the actual video you can get so much
from one video this is one reason that I
recommend watching One video repeatedly
working deeply with one video rather
than skipping from video to video on
different topics what we're going to do
is go through just the top three
vocabulary words and phrases that I
wrote down so you can see how to do this
in depth step three has three
parts look up definitions find
collocations and write
sentences we're starting with the word
spiteful first we look up the word you
can use any online dictionary or even
chat GPT to look up these words I'm just
using Miriam
because it's a trusted free American
English dictionary when we look up
spiteful we see that it's an adjective
and this definition is not helpful
because it just says filled with or
showing spite so let's click on Spite
and we see that it's a noun which means
ill will or hatred H okay so let's check
some synonyms malice Venom hatred ah
hatred is coming up again so if spite
the noun is hatred spiteful the
adjective must be hateful I am writing
this definition from my own
understanding and in my own words I'm
not copying anyone else's definition the
next thing we do in step three is to
find collocations on yogish or yish I
actually do not know how to say it I
should probably look up how to pronounce
yogish on yogish because it might be
yish I'm just going to call it yogish I
don't know many people know know yogish
as a place where you can just go to look
up pronunciation in different English
accents but you can also use this
website to learn about grammar and usage
as well it is a killer resource for this
let me show you how let's type in
spiteful and look for phrases and
collocations collocations are just words
that are commonly used together spiteful
or resentful unjust and spiteful and
spiteful nature angry and spiteful mean
and spiteful drunk spiteful Behavior so
we have quite a few phrases here that
help us understand how to use this word
and show us other words that are paired
with the word
spiteful resentful unjust angry mean
spiteful nature spiteful Behavior
something else you can do on yogish is
to change the accent this is not just
for pronunciation this also helps with
identifying usage differences so if
you're focused on American or British or
any other accent look at how many are
here you can use this feature to help
make sure that the usage is correct as
well as the pronunciation by the way if
you like this video hit like And
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support my work the last thing we're
going to do in step three is make a few
sentences using the the word we just
explored so I wrote spiteful and
resentful people are difficult to be
around when we argue he seems so angry
and spiteful some children seem to have
a spiteful nature notice that I made
sentences using the collocations I found
in the video clips so I can be pretty
sure that I'm using the word in the
right way and in the right context so
those are the three parts of step three
and we're going to do it again with the
next word middle management I was hoping
to find out what types of jobs are
considered middle management and the
dictionary didn't help much with that so
I went to chat gbt and asked a few
follow-up questions by the way this is
the perfect way to use chat GPT for
studying have your primary sources of
information and ask chat GPT for extra
information or for more complicated
information once you have a basic idea
of what is going on with your subject
you can ask more intelligent questions
right so you're going to get better
quality information from chat GPT my
first prompt was give me job titles of
middle management positions by the way
when I ask AI a question we call that a
prompt I am prompting it the answer it
gave was not really direct but it does
help me to understand what jobs are
middle management department managers
project managers people who manage
teams I prompted it again to ask how big
are these teams how many people do
middle managers
manage okay answer 5 to 50 people so at
this point I have a pretty good idea of
what it means to be a middle manager so
now we're going to go to yogish and look
for
collocations this time I found in middle
management
in the middle management
level working in middle
management at the middle management
level so the first thing that we can see
is that we use in with middle management
the second thing we can
see is that we can talk about levels of
management that is a useful cocation and
then I have a
question because if you notice we have
two clips that mention level one says in
middle management level and the other
says at middle management level so do we
use in or at when we're talking about
levels this is what the groups are for I
took my question I pretended I was a
student for 5 seconds I submitted my
question to the group and I got an
answer within the first few minutes
let's talk about these groups really
quick I am in the what WhatsApp groups
to answer questions this is actually the
whole purpose of the WhatsApp groups
like some people seem to think that
they're like Hi how are you English
chats they're actually not that those
groups are intended to be support for
courses so when you have a question
bring your questions to the group and
this is another reason that I wanted to
make this video because I want to make
sure that you guys understand how to use
the resources that you have so back to
our example actually the answer that I
got from the group is correct we do use
at with levels so it looks like it's
better to use at the middle management
level rather than in the middle
management level when I wrote my
sentences I wrote them like that she
worked in middle management for 10 years
he was stuck at the middle management
level and of course you can always bring
your sentences to the groups to check
them as well finally I looked up squalor
squalor is is a noun and the adjective
is
squalid so the adjective means something
like dirty or filthy so squalor means
filth collocations on
yogish squalor famine and disease the
squalor they were living in people that
live in
squalor the poor are shoved farther into
squalor living in squalor so I'm seeing
living in squalor over and over and over
again this is a common collocation this
is almost the only way that anyone used
the word we can also tell that we use
the preposition in with squalor it's
never on it's never for it's never to
it's never at it's always in squalor and
this is why we study whole phrases and
not just words you are going to be able
to get so much more
information when you start studying like
this and we're on to step four by the
way step three is going to take you
forever nobody said this was going to be
quick or easy I just said it works step
four is to make the flashcards remember
that we're not using single words we are
using whole phrases where did you get
the whole phrases we found call
locations on yogish and now we're going
to make our Flash cards with the common
call locations for step four you can use
paper flashcards or any flash carding
app that you like I have historically
used memorize for this because you can
create your own courses on memorize and
there's a free version I'll show you
briefly how to create a course and what
it looks like on desktop okay so after
you log
in click on courses and it will take you
to a bunch of cool courses that you
could take but instead you're going to
going to come up here and click create a
course I have already created a course
for the purpose of this video so I'll
show you what I did I just added the
three collocations that we just learned
spiteful and resentful people in middle
management living in
squalor I pretended that I was a Spanish
speaker learning English so I put the
call locations that you're learning and
then the translation into your native
language when you go to learn it will
teach you the phrase and then test you
on it these answers look stupid because
I only input three phrases so to edit
the course what you're going to do is go
to the course page come over here and
click edit course and you can do a few
things you can add words you can also
come up here and change the direction
that we're tested another cool thing in
memorize is that you can add audio which
is super useful if you have time to add
the audio in edit course go over here to
Advanced and click add column name it
anything you want probably
audio here you can add audio and you can
record it yourself right now from your
computer so it's automatically prompting
me to say the phrases and I'm just
saying spiteful and resentful people in
middle management living in squalor save
it now whenever I go to learn I'm going
to hear the phrases hearing the phrases
is going to make it so much easier for
you to remember them you have plenty of
apps and options for this step a lot of
people like ay I'm not personally a fan
but many people use that one and some
people have apps already on their phone
where you can just add vocabulary words
and they'll test you on them I just use
memorize because it's the one that I'm
familiar with and I like it moving on
step five write talking points talking
points are just notes about important
parts of the video if you were going to
explain this video to someone you're
just writing down what you don't want to
forget what I did is I listened to the
video again and this time while I was
listening I wrote down important points
so if I have a conversation about the
video I'll be ready now we're going to
use those talking points in Step six to
write a summary my summary is about 200
words
try to keep it short and make sure it's
written in your own words don't just
copy the narrator's speech of course you
can use some of the new vocabulary that
you've just studied as well and this
would be a great time to try that
writing is the best way to improve the
sophistication of your language whether
that is your native language or a
foreign language why because writing is
like slow deliberate speaking so you
have time to think about how you want to
express yourself and you also have time
to think about using proper grammar
additionally writing is a great first
step for improving grammar because it's
going to show you what you don't know
when you make a mistake speaking native
speakers make speaking mistakes all the
time you could make that mistake for any
reason like maybe you're nervous maybe
you just forgot maybe you didn't care at
all but if you make a mistake when
you're writing and you're actually
trying to do it right chances are you
don't actually know something like
you're missing something so then you can
use that information go back and review
specific points you can do this by
having a teacher check it for you or you
can do this by running it through some
AI like chat gbt or grammarly okay if
you if you do it this way what I want
you to remember is that you're not just
correcting you're not just editing
you're actually analyzing and comparing
your sentence to the corrected version
and you're looking for why that mistake
happened I won't go too far off track
here going into that if you want a video
on how to improve your grammar through
writing just leave me a note in the
comments let's move on to step seven
download and brainwash I mean listen
repeatedly until some of the phrases
from the video start popping in into
your mind randomly sporadically if
you're not sure how to download YouTube
videos you have a few options a nice
paid option is snap downloader it works
well and it's $8 a month if you don't
want to pay a monthly subscription you
could just get it for one month and
download everything in that
Month YouTube premium is another option
if you pay for premium YouTube lets you
download easily the cost varies by
country so I've seen anywhere from $3 to
$13 per month and of course there are
free options they are annoying and
spammy and probably dangerous and we all
hate them but if you can't pay for
something they're available make a
playlist for your videos in your music
app and just listen whenever you have
downtime whenever you're driving walking
exercising washing dishes whenever
you're free step eight you have all of
these new phrases and new vocabulary now
you need to make time to review them
please schedule your study time and your
review time I recommend Google Calendar
if you do not have a calendar already it
is free and convenient make sure that
you're reviewing regularly like once a
week is a nice Rhythm maybe you need
more maybe you need less adapt your
study schedule to suit your lifestyle
also let me remind you that my list of
top 30 must-watch YouTube channels for
improving English is free on the website
as well as the written version of this
video the written steps just go to my
website and click on free stuff there
might be some other free stuff there too
it changes periodically click on free
guides put in your email and you'll get
immediate access to these steps and also
the top 30 channel list I highly
recommend not boring yourself to death
when you're studying I made this list to
give you a bunch of super entertaining
interesting engaging options for your
English practice also if you like my
style I want to let you know that I've
created English Evolution Academy which
you can also check out here on the
website I made it as a lowcost study
alternative for people who prefer
independent study for whatever reason
it's still new and it is on special
offer right now so check it out if you
want to get in at the best price thank
you so much for watching all the way
through if you've enjoyed this video
please click like And subscribe and let
me know in the comments what kind of
English content you want to see more of
bye
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