Az internet az angol nyelv tanulás kiapadhatatlan forrása. Rengeteg anyagot találunk rajta, s az ember elvész a hatalmas kínálatban.
Éppen ezért olyan oldalakat ajánlok a blogban, melyek segítenek az egyéni tanulásban. Ingyenesen elérhető tartalmakat veszek át, s mutatok be, hiszen egyrészt ez segít a haladóbb diákoknak is egy kicsit a bőség zavarában, másrészt a kezdők számára megkönnyíti a kizárólagosan angol nyelvű szövegek megértését.
Az alábbi videóban a férfi egy szó-tanulási tippet árul el, ami nem más, mint, hogy ne különálló szavakat írjunk ki szótárfüzetünkbe és próbáljunk megtanulni, hanem minimum kifejezéseket, vagy mondatokat. Az agyunk számára sokkal könnyebb emlékezni egy szóra, ha szövegkörnyezetben találkozik vele. Ezzel a módszerrel észrevétlenül nyelvtant is tanulunk, illetve azt is megjegyezzük, hogy az adott szó milyen összefüggésben használatos. (Egy magyar példa erre a könnyebb érthetőség kedvéét - természetesen ő nem ezt hozza fel: olyat mondunk hogy rosszcsont gyerek, de olyat nem hogy rosszcsont ember.)
A nyelvi szintedtől függően érdemes meghallgatni a videót - vagy hallgatni és olvasni (szöveget lásd a kép alatt), hiszen ott jóval bővebben mondja el azt, amit én pár mondatban foglaltam össze.
Azután nincs más dolgod, mint elkezdeni használni az új tudást!
Rule # 1 For Excellent English Speaking
www.LearnRealEnglish.com
Hi,
I’m AJ Hoge,
one of the teachers of Learn Real English. And welcome to our video course.
Now, let’s
get started with Rule #1 or Secret
#1. And Rule
#1 is to
always learn English phrases, and to never, never
study just individual words. So in this course we’re
going to teach you a totally new way to learn
English, a totally new way to study English, so that you can speak English
quickly, easily,automatically,
powerfully, confidently.
So what’s
the old way of learning English? You know it because you
learned it in school. You’ve beenusing it for
years and years and years. You sit in a classroom. You’ve got a textbook. You
memorize lists of
vocabulary words. You study lots and lots and lots of grammar rules. You do
lots of reading and little fake
conversation drills and activities. And this is the traditional old way of
learning English but we have a
totally new and different way of learning it. And we’re going to teach you each
part of that, one part every
day for a full seven days.
So let’s start
with Part 1, Secret 1, Rule # 1...learn
phrases, not individual words. Now, of course, a phrase is a
group of words. It’s a group of words that naturally go together. This is very
important. You see, when
you only study individual words, you are doing a
number of things that make learning difficult.
Number one,
when you study just an individual word like a vocabulary, something in a vocabulary
list, or even in your
notebook you write one single word and then you write the meaning or the
translation, here’s the problem.
That word has no connections to anything else. Therefore, it’s difficult for
your brain to remember it.
That’s why
you have to keep repeating again and again. You look at that list and you try
to memorize it. And then the
next day you
forget and then you go back and you try to memorize it again and again and again and
again and again. And maybe after a very long time you might remember it. But
most likely you’re going
to forget it, especially long term. And
yet that’s the
way most
students are learning English and studying
vocabulary.
Here’s
another problem with just learning single words. When you study just single
words, you’re not learning any
grammar. But when you study phrases, you are actually learning grammar.
It’s kind of
an effortless,
easy way to learn grammar. You don’t need to think about rules. You don’t need
to thinkabout
anything. And yet, you will be learning correct grammar when you study groups
of words instead of phrases.
Let me give
you an example of
this. Let’s just, y’know, take any phrase...like, um, a simple, simplesentence. He
was a bad dog. He was a bad dog. Now, let’s imagine that you’re a new English
student and the word
bad is new for you. Of course, I know you know it, but let’s just imagine
you go way back to the very
beginning and your first year of learning English and bad is a new word. Now
the normal way of studying
that, you would write it down, bad, it would be in a little, y’know, a list.
And then you would study bad means not good,
bad means not good. You’d probably translate it to your own language. And then after lots
and lots and lots of time, maybe you would remember it.
Well using
our system, you do something very different. You would write down that whole
phrase. Hewas a bad
dog. That’s actually a full sentence. Or you could just write down was a bad
dog or he was a bad dog,
whatever. And then every single time you study or review, you would always,
always, always study the
full complete phrase. You would never just
study that word, bad. You would
study the whole thing. Now by doing
that you’re getting free grammar. How do you know? Well, because first of all
you’re getting that
verb, was, right? Was, and that’s just going to stick in your brain, he was, he was, he
was.
You’re also
learning articles. You don’t need to remember what that means. You don’t have
to even worry about
it. And yet you know that it’s correct to say, in this situation, a bad dog. He
was a bad dog.
Some people
say a, he was a bad dog. Both
pronunciations are correct. So he was a bad dog. He wasa bad dog.
A lot of
students have problems. When
do I use a, or a? When do I
not? When do I use
the?
And you’re
trying to memorize all these super complicated rules and situations for it. Forget
that. It’s toocomplicated.
You’ll never remember it. Just study phrases and you’ll start to feel when to
use it, when it’s
correct, when it sounds correct and when it sounds strange, when it’s not
correct to use those things.
And, of course, this is
true for all grammar; all phrases; all
vocabulary. By studying a full phrase or even a full
sentence, always, always, always, you’re going to get lots of grammar. You’re
going to learn which vocabulary
words go together naturally. And you’re going to
know when to use them in which situations.Because
sometimes, for example, there might be a situation where there are many words that mean the same thing.
And yet we typically use one of them. Like, we
might say he was a bad dog. That’s a common
phrase, a bad dog, bad dog. We use that word bad to
describe a dog who’s naughty, who’s not good. But we don’t
usually say horrendous. Now horrendous
means super super bad, really terrible. And yet we don’t usually say he was a
horrendous dog. It sounds
strange, even though the meaning is basically correct. Yet, in normal real
English, not textbooks,
but real English, we just don’t use that word to describe dogs, not usually. I
don’t know why.There’s no
real rule about it. It’s just that’s
what we
usually do. And every language has these kind of word
combinations that are more common, and other word combinations which just
aren’t used typically.
How do you
learn that? Well you can’t learn it from any rules because there are no rules
about
that. You have to
learn it by studying phrases always. Always, always, always study phrases.
Review phrases.
Whenever you
learn a new word don’t just write down that individual word. Write down the
full phrase, or even better,
the full sentence that it’s in.
Always include the words that are around it. This is going to help you
improve your English speaking ability much, much, much faster.
Even better, when you write down the phrase, also write down where the
phrase came from to remind yourself of the whole
situation. So you might, let’s say you find a new word in a newspaper article.
Well first of
all, let’s say the word horrendous. You’re reading a newspaper article or
you’re listening to the radio and
you hear that word horrendous. Hm, that’s new, what is
that? And you write it down. But you’re not
going to write down just that single word.
You’re going
to write down the whole phrase that it was in. And then you’re also going to
make a note, you’re going
to put down, y’know, this came from a
newspaper article about the economy. And this is going to
trigger you, it’s going to remind you, give you a memory cue, a memory
reminder, of the full situation.
So now you’re not only getting just this single word. You’re getting the full
phrase or sentence that it’s in
and you’re also reminding yourself where that sentence came from. What was the
general topic, what
was the general situation.
And in this
way you’re getting a lot of extra grammar which you’re learning unconsciously,
easily. You don’t have
to think about it but you’re learning it anyway. Your brain is learning it,
even though you might not know
that. And you’re also learning when certain phrases and certain words are used
and when they’re not
used. You’re learning which situations it’s
used, or they are used in. And you’ll, of course, know that in
other situations you don’t use.
Because as
you learn more and more and more phrases, you begin to get this feeling of
correctness. And you
begin to know when to use certain words, how to use
them, and you’re also, how to use the grammar
correctly as well.
This is so
important. It’s such a simple, simple little secret, a simple little trick, a
simple little rule. And yet it can
totally change the way you speak English and learn English.
It’s very, very important. So never, never, never
study just an individual word, one word, always study the phrase or the
sentence. And always,
always, always make a note where it came from. And you want those phrases and
sentences tocome from real
English, which we’ll talk about more later, not from textbooks.
Here’s
another advantage of studying phrases and full sentences and always knowing the
situation that they came
from. Phrasal verbs, you guys know about them. You know all about phrasal verbs
that are a frustration
for so many students, right? Y’know, to be knocked out or knocked up, have
totally different meaning,
right? Knocked out is a phrasal verb, it’s a two
-word verb,
it’s a verb phrase. And to be knocked out
means to like, it’s like in
boxing or sports, you get hit and ugh, it’s like you’re asleep, right? Boom,
knocked out on the floor. To be knocked up means to become pregnant. We use
that for women. Now there’s
no way if you just look at the individual words to know the meaning,
right, knocked out, knocked up.
It’s not logical. You just have to learn each one individually.
But if you
just try to study lists and lists and lists of phrasal verbs, you’re going to
become very confused. You’ll start
confusing one with the other.
You’re going to forget and it’s horrible and you don’t want to do that. It’s
not effective. It doesn’t work. But if you learn those phrasal verbs from real
situations, real sentences,
real articles, real audios, real speech, and then you always study
them in the whole sentence. So then you
know the situation, right? If you, if
you get the whole sentence, the fighter knocked out the other fighter. And
you’re always studying
that full phrase or sentence, the fighter knocked out the other fighter.
You’re going to just
naturally
know. Y’know,
you’ve got that word fighter in there, helps you to remember the situation. And
it helps you to
remember the meaning of that phrase, knocked out.
Or you could
say the woman got knocked up by her boyfriend, right?
So now you’re like, ah yeah, boyfriend,
it gives you...it gives you a clue. It gives you an idea of the meaning of that
phrase. And you’ll know that
you always use that phrase in situations that describe pregnancy. This is much
better than studying
lists and lists and lists of phrasal verbs.
So what’s
our first rule, what’s our first secret? Always, always, always study phrases,
groups of words. Always write
down a note about where the phrase came from to remind you of the situation.
And no more, never
again, study just individual words. And that’s all. That is powerful Secret #1, Rule #1 for learning to
speak fantastic amazing English. Start using this rule immediately today, okay?
We’ll see
you tomorrow for Rule 2.
Bye-bye
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