And welcome back to English With Lucy.
Not my weird Lucy replica in the form of Allie
The response was honestly hilarious.
So who has been with me since the very beginning
It took me a couple of months to get to 1000 subscribers.
But my second ever video was a video called
How to Learn and Remember Vocabulary.
The video's a little bit disorganised.
and I was eager to get onto You Tube
and share this knowledge that I had.
But the video's done really, really well,
but looking back at the video,
there are some updates that I would like to add on
to learn and remember vocabulary.
But it doesn't teach you how to expand
which is something that could benefit
I want to expand my vocabulary in my mother tongue,
my native language, which is English.
And I also want to expand my vocabulary in my
second and third languages, Spanish and Italian.
If you haven't seen my video about Portuguese yet,
Yeah, so this is a video that will be useful
for both native speakers and non-native speakers.
I want to share with you some tips that I've picked up,
but it's not going to be your typical
How to Improve Your Vocabulary video.
I want to give you some tips that are really, really
gonna help that you might not have thought of before.
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So my first tip is don't get overwhelmed.
When I think I want to expand my vocabulary,
And there are so many words that I'm lacking
How on earth am I going to learn them all?
You need to realise that it's not humanly possible
to swallow and regurgitate the full Oxford Dictionary
unless you have a fabulous gag reflex.
Joke.
I've seen a couple of comments on some of my videos
"I like to read the dictionary before I go to bed,"
which if your mind is capable of doing that
and you can read a little bit of the dictionary
I take my hat off to you because that's
really, really impressive amount of dedication
So I recommend that you chunk your vocabulary learning
and you focus your time and energy and effort into
learning the vocabulary from these three sections.
It's not as complicated as it sounds.
Section one, topics you are interested in.
so I like to watch gardening videos,
and I have picked up loads and loads and loads
of vocabulary, especially Latin terms actually for plants,
just through watching videos and doing research
So yes, reading books, watching films, watching videos
so you're choosing a video that will help you
expand your vocabulary and you're absorbing it,
and then you're applying what you learned
How to Learn and Remember Vocabulary.
Basically, you're keeping a vocabulary diary,
and you're being really, really aware and meticulous
about words that you don't know already.
and you write it down in your phone or in a book.
Just make sure you are meticulous.
Section number two, vocabulary that you use
and come across on a daily basis.
Now why do I say use and come across?
There's two different parts of vocabulary expansion.
There's seeing a word that you don't know,
But there's also taking words you already know,
and finding alternative ways of saying them.
So it's really, really useful to look into synonyms.
There may be words that you're using every single day.
For me, a bit of a problem is the word like.
So you're your using some words every day all day.
Like the word like, for example.
And you will sound much more eloquent
and you switch between the alternatives.
Words that you come across on a daily basis,
If it's, you know, for example when the Brexit
was going on, I learnt loads of political vocabulary
because I was coming across the terms on a daily basis.
I was very conscious of the fact that
I didn't totally understand what was going on,
both on a political level and a vocabulary level.
And section number three, my favourite section,
random spontaneous randomness is, you know,
where you sit down and you think,
"I wonder what that extra toe on the back
"of a dog's leg that doesn't work is called."
Use it to improve your vocabulary
the next point that I want to talk about.
I know I've already said that I don't want to say
But what I'm going to say is read books and watch films,
Everyone knows that if you read a book,
What makes one person sound eloquent
and another person sound uneducated.
So I want you to really pick and choose carefully
and which people you listen to.
Now I don't mean cut out people that you find uneducated.
I mean dedicate a couple of minutes every day,
every other day to listen to talks and read books
written by people that speak eloquently.
For example, I really admire the way Stephen Fry speaks.
I know I mentioned Stephen Fry in so many videos,
so I'll put on, you know, a speech or a monologue from him,
and I'll really try to listen to
you know, elements of his accent,
His vocabulary, the vocabulary that he uses.
Which words does Stephen use that make him
sound really, really educated and eloquent.
And then I'll note those down,
and I'll try and implement them into my own vocabulary.
So I guess the way you could summarise that point is
pick and choose reading and listening exercises
from which you want to improve your vocabulary.
If you want to improve and widen and expand
your vocabulary and sound more eloquent,
I want you to avoid the most boring word
Why say very good if you can say
excellent, fantastic, amazing, incredible?
Why say very bad if you can say
dreadful, appalling, hideous, revolting?
and start incorporating more advanced adjectives
into your everyday speech and writing.
try and be conscious of every time that you use
the word very and which adjective you used it with.
Then you can go and search the adjective in a thesaurus
Very dirty can be filthy or squalid.
Very cross can be seething, livid.
I actually have a video about that.
Being conscious of when you use the word very
So I just made that mistake there.
Being conscious of the word very
My last tip might not be for everybody,
especially when I'm bored and waiting for something.
I'm an incredibly impatient person.
And if there's one room that an impatient person
cannot stand, it's a waiting room.
So I recommend that you use this time to your advantage.
say you're sitting on a train,
you're sitting in a waiting room,
So just sit or stand and observe
the room around you or the area around you
and try and find something that you don't know how to say.
It's most likely going to be a noun,
It could be somebody doing something.
"I don't know how to say that in Japanese."
It could be an emotion that somebody has.
Just use that time to look around.
Meticulously note down what it is that you don't know,
If you're trying to acquire vocabulary in another language,
then you can just write it down in your own language.
It gets a bit more complicated if you don't really know
how to say the word in your own language.
Use other words to describe it.
Note it down and then you can talk to somebody about it.
Something that I'm going through at the moment
and I have suddenly been launched into this new world
of machinery and he said to me the other day,
"Oh, we use farm save or something."
searched it and I'm holding it was farm save is now.
I think it's when you keep your own seed
and then you use it the next day.
Sometimes if he's gone off in the tractor
I'll just look around the farm and I'll think,
bale, challenger, John Deere tractor,
and if there's anything I don't know how to say,
And it might be a bit annoying for him,
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Mwwa!
I'm always half tempted to put Allie
Shall I?
Yeah.
Bye.