No.1 Technique for Learning New English Words and Speaking English Fluently (10 mins per day)
- Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com
and today we are going to talk about
the power of repetition and why
this is so important for you as an English learner.
talking about the power of input
and why input is such an important part
of being able to express yourself freely in English,
and to be able to understand other people when they speak.
Now it works like this, when you get lots of inputs
you can store sentences in your brain.
And then, when it comes to speaking,
you can take parts of all those sentences
that you have learned and express yourself in a natural way.
This means you'll be able to speak English
without thinking about grammar rules,
without having to look for that phrase that you want to use.
It'll just come out naturally.
So this is a stage I want you to reach.
I want you to get to this stage
because it just makes everything so much easier.
So I talked about the power of input
and how you can read lots of things in English,
how you need to listen to English all the time
to get the input that you need
so that you can store these sentences in your brain.
But there is another way to do this, too,
another way to store sentences in your brain
and to be really efficient about how you do it.
Firstly, you take sentences relevant to you.
So you find sentences that are relevant
to the way you want to speak English
A good example of this is using high-frequency-used phrases.
So phrases that people use in everyday English.
Again, step one is to find sentences specific to you.
Step two is to make digital flashcards.
Now I much prefer digital flashcards
because as we're going to see soon,
we can use software that is going to give us
the sentences when we need to see them.
The problem of writing down your own flashcards
is that it's very difficult to create a system
so that you're doing things effectively.
Whereas software is going to take care of this for you.
And we're going to talk about the app you need in a second.
Step three is to repeat these sentences
Again, this is a huge part of it
to do the things we want to do in a day.
So we don't want to spend time
unnecessarily learning sentences.
We want to do it in an effective way.
And that's where the software we're going to talk about
we're going to start using this software.
is to be really effective with this.
Now before we go deep into this method,
I want to give you three sentences
and then look at some of the examples that we can create
based on internalizing these three sentences.
Okay, so look at these sentences.
I'm not excited about going to the party.
He was excited about seeing her.
Do you think you're going to be excited about it later?
Now let's say that you store these sentences in your brain,
so that you know them off by heart.
Because we learned things in chunks,
because we can take parts of sentences
it means that you'll have so many different phrases to use
just based on these three sentences.
So for example, you'll be able
to take part of the first sentence
and the second sentence and say,
"I'm not excited about seeing her."
Or, "He was excited about going to the party."
But not only that, you're going to notice rules.
You're going to notice patterns.
And this is different than learning grammar rules.
Instead you're going to just notice them
So looking at those sentences again,
you can see after about we use the gerund.
Okay, about going, about seeing.
So when you see lots and lots of similar sentences,
instead of just saying things like,
"He was excited about seeing her."
You'll be able to say, "I was excited
And you can see all the different combinations
of this sentence that you can use.
But you can only do this if you internalize sentences first.
You need to internalize lots of sentences
in order to speak in this flexible way
and to do so naturally without thinking about grammar rules,
without being in that moment when you're thinking
about the grammar rules that you need to use.
Instead, you just internalize it
and it comes out more naturally.
and you stay consistent with it,
if you take sentences that you need to know,
powerful sentences, if you repeat them
in an effective way, and if you just
work on your speaking as well at the same time,
then you'll be able to produce English
at the right time, the right English at the right time
without making too many mistakes,
and you'll be a much more confident English speaker.
Now repetition is a big part of this.
And again, it's important to repeat things
And the forgetting curve explains this
So let's take a look at that now.
Here is a good example of the forgetting curve,
and this just shows the power of repetition.
So along here you can see time in terms of weeks.
One week, two weeks, three weeks,
But over here is the percentage of memory retention,
which just means how well you remember something.
So you can think about this for newly learned information
as being new word, a sentence,
So if you don't repeat this newly learned information,
you can see your memory goes down.
you can see how the percentage memory
If you repeat it for a second time,
and a third time, and a fourth time,
then the percentage of memory retention is much higher.
So this is the key to repetition.
It's going to allow you to remember things much better.
And again, we can do this using software
so that we're repeating things
in the most efficient way possible.
Now the software that I recommend you use for this
Now I've been using this for many years
and I actually have Anki cards inside my To Fluency program.
So I am a big fan of this software.
There are other apps available as well,
but I recommend trying this one first.
So the software is going to allow you
to see the sentences that you need to see
And I recommend doing all of this in English.
If you're going to translate things,
then translate the whole sentence
and make sure that it's correct.
Or on the back of the Anki cards,
you can also just put a little key
or something that helps you remember
But the key part to this is to understand the sentence first
Let's look at how Anki works now.
You have different decks, which just means
systems or groups of flashcards.
And I just downloaded from my To Fluency program
So if we click this, then we click Study Now.
It's going to give you the audio for these flashcards.
So this one is all about verb patterns
and we can see I want to do it is a verb pattern.
After want we use the infinitive to do.
So inside my program I have lessons
you can download these flashcards
Now before I go through exactly how to use this,
you can use Anki on your computer, on your phone.
It's free except for iPhone users.
And then I think it's about $25
But it's worth it if you have to buy it
because it's going to make a huge difference
Now I highly recommend learning sentences,
like I've mentioned, and that is why
I provide sentences and audio for you.
Now you can add your own Anki sentences very easily
when you come across them, which is a phrasal verb.
But I'm just gonna use these as an example from my program.
So what I recommend you do is one of three things.
Either read it and listen, or write it down,
So let's just click Show Answer.
And then this is when you evaluate yourself.
You can say, "All right, that one is easy.
"I can see that in the next four days."
Or, "I want to see that again in less than a minute."
Or, "I want to see it in less than 10 minutes."
So let's just say less than one minute
This one, "He enjoyed going there."
or repeat it out loud, or just listen.
Now let's just say that one was easy, click Easy.
They managed to finish it just in time.
They managed to finish it just in time.
That one was hard, so we'll do that again.
I always avoid going that way.
I always avoid going that way.
He wants us to continue doing it.
That's difficult, he wants us to continue doing it.
Let's say again, they wanted me to work too many hours.
They wanted me to work too many hours.
That's easy, I thought about saying something.
He's interested in helping us, I think.
He's interested in helping us, I think, easy.
He's going to want us to help him.
Okay, so you can see you can go through this.
Now all of these are new sentences,
but what happens in Anki is that
as you go through your initial deck,
the first time you study them,
the next time you're going to see
Some of them again in two days.
Some of them again in four days.
you're going to get a lot more sentences.
Now if that sounds complicated,
I go through that in depth inside my program.
But I just wanted to show you exactly how Anki works.
So with Anki, you can see that you get lots of repetition
And it's very effective in the way it does this.
When it comes to learning sentences,
I highly recommend looking for sentences
that have audio as well so that you can hear the sentence.
English isn't phonetic and what you're doing
if you get audio is you're getting
the listening input that you need
and you can also repeat the sentence back.
But if you come across a sentence that's relevant to you
when you're reading an article,
or reading or a book, or listening to a podcast,
and you think, "This is a good sentence to know,"
Here are some tips now to help you
So firstly, when it comes to what you need to do
with the sentence, I recommend doing one of three things.
Either reading it in your head,
reading it out loud, so repeating it,
It depends on you and the sentence at the time.
Because if you feel like it's more of a passive sentence,
then maybe you just need to read it.
If it's an active sentence, then say it or write it down.
And I like to use a combination of these three things.
And when you're writing it down,
just take a pen, relax, copy it,
and then move on to the next card.
Again, use audio phrases if possible.
This is an important part of this.
So if you can find sentences with audio,
it's going to make this much more powerful
because you're going to hear the English
and you'll be able to better say it out loud
And finally, be consistent with it.
So take about five to 10 minutes a day at first
That's all you need for this method,
Add around five cards a day, maybe 10 at first,
because you're going to be repeating other cards,
You'll get a lot of cards to repeat
if you add 20 a day every day.
And then add more cards when you feel comfortable.
Now if you want cards ready made for you
in Fluency phrases, then join the To Fluency program.
Because I have all the different phrases
that I think are relevant to English learners
and I have created these materials for you.
So to learn more about the To Fluency program,
click the link in the description.
And then finally, I just want to know
Tell me what you think about this method,
and if you are going to start using it now
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