How to remember English vocabulary
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[2] 00:01In this video, I'm going to share with you a technique that you can use to remember English
[4] 00:08And the reason that I recommend this technique is that it's pretty effective.
[5] 00:12I actually did a small experiment.
[6] 00:14I created two lists of words that I didn't know and I just tried to memorize the words
[8] 00:21I did not use any technique to memorize the first list.
[9] 00:25It was just pure repetition.
[10] 00:27But for the second list, I used the technique that you're about to learn.
[11] 00:32The next day I tried to recall the meanings of the words in both lists.
[12] 00:36For the first list, I was able to recall only 12%.
[13] 00:40But for the second list, I recalled as much as 50%.
[14] 00:45This is pretty impressive considering the fact that I spent only one minute memorizing
[16] 00:51So let me explain the technique and then at the end of this video, I will give you a link
[17] 00:55to an exercise that you can do to practice this technique.
[19] 01:07really good at something".
[20] 01:08The first thing we need to do is to come up with another word that sounds similar to this
[22] 01:15And that word must refer to something that we can visualize - something that we can see
[24] 01:21So for this word, the substitute word could be the word 'android' which means "a robot."
[26] 01:29Adroit and android sound pretty close to each other.
[27] 01:32We could also use the phrase "a drawing".
[28] 01:35That sounds similar as well.
[31] 01:40What these words have in common is that they refer to something that we can visualize.
[32] 01:46And this is a very important point and you're going find out why soon.
[33] 01:50So we have two options here but let's use the word 'android' as the substitute word.
[34] 01:55Now visualize an android. You know...a robot that looks like a human.
[35] 02:00Next, we have to associate this image to the meaning of the word that we want to remember.
[36] 02:07And again the meaning is "skillful at something.
[38] 02:12So perhaps we can imagine the android doing something that requires a lot of skill.
[39] 02:18Maybe we can imagine the android playing the guitar on stage.
[40] 02:23Maybe there's a competition going on and we can imagine other guitarists come up on stage
[41] 02:29and try to compete with the android.
[42] 02:31But everybody loses because the android is very good at playing the guitar.
[43] 02:36The android is adroit at playing the guitar.
[44] 02:40So what we're doing here is associate the pronunciation with the meaning through an
[46] 02:48We're creating an association between them.
[48] 02:57and therefore the meaning of the word.
[49] 03:00Let's take a look at one more example.
[53] 03:16light, as the substitute word.
[54] 03:19For the second syllable "baste," we can use "bass" - the musical instrument. And I also
[57] 03:33But let's use "lamb" the animal and "bass" the musical instrument together.
[58] 03:38So we can imagine a lamb playing the bass. But unfortunately, the lamb is really terrible
[59] 03:44at playing the bass. So the bass gets angry and starts criticizing the lamb.
[60] 03:50The bass is lambasting the lamb.
[62] 03:56I hope you find this video useful.
[63] 03:58And I have an exercise for you if you want to practice this technique.
[64] 04:02Just click here to go to the exercise.
[65] 04:05Now...unfortunately, this technique doesn't work if you don't know the pronunciation of
[66] 04:09the word you want to remember.
[67] 04:11So if that is the case, you need to use another method, which is beyond the scope of this
[69] 04:18If you want to learn about it, click here go read about it.