4 Methods to Take Notes Effectively in Language Learning

are you struggling to find the perfect note  taking method for your language learning routine  

congrats you're in the right place in this video  I will share a few powerful techniques that will  

super charge your not taking game and will get  you closer to fluency in your target language  

the first method is called The Settle custom  method and I learned about it in the book how  

to take smart notes I think in general the skill  of writing effective notes can be extremely useful  

in fact it can even help you unlock your full  potential knowing how to take good notes can  

help you study more successfully learn new words  faster and organize your language routine better  

in general there are three simple types of  notes you can create to nurture your ideas  

and strengthen your arguments firstly there are  fleeing notes they're quick they usually just  

capture your passing thoughts or insights you're  reading a book in a foreign language and then  

you had this quick idea you want to jot down it  usually takes a couple of seconds to write down  

these kinds of notes then there are are literature  notes they are reflections on what you've read you  

should try to keep them concise and in your own  words noting down key points along with reference  

details and lastly there are permanent notes you  basically get them from analyzing your fleeting  

and literature notes let's say you finished a  book in a foreign language and you have all of  

these fleeting notes and literature notes and  so now you want to write your overall summary  

maybe of this book or like include all of the  quotes that you especially like I think these  

permanent notes can really help you connect all  of the ideas in the book to your own ideas and  

interests and really help you start thinking more  critically and because of that Foster intellectual  

growth writing down your thoughts and general  can help your thinking process a lot because it  

often provides Clarity and insight I started  implementing this specific method only a few  

weeks ago and yes maybe at the very beginning you  might feel like oh my God God it's too much you  

know I'm reading an article in this foreign  language and I have to take fleeting notes  

I have to take literature notes and then I have  to create permanent notes but once you actually  

do that first of all you're going to learn so many  new things you're going to train yourself to think  

critically and you're going to remember all of  this information a lot faster traditional note  

taking methods often lack Direction and that's  something that a lot of people talk about and  

complain about like okay I can take notes but I  don't even know like what to take notes about and  

this approach the approach that I just shared with  you encourages active engagement with the material  

and because of that it empowers you to develop  your ideas effectively it will be especially  

beneficial to you if you create this habit of  taking notes while reading and this way you'll be  

practicing habit stacking you're reading and then  you're including a new habit taking notes I know  

sometimes maybe you don't want to take notes while  reading and that's okay as long as as you practice  

this sometimes you will benefit from this approach  a lot especially if you read a lot of non-fiction  

books about self-improvement self-development to  really analyze all of the concepts and ideas and  

to see how they fit into your own life into  your own narrative taking notes this way will  

help you a lot start with fleeting notes and then  move on to deeper literature notes and permanent  

notes I usually write my literature notes in the  morning when I wake up I Journal because usually  

the night before I was reading something and when  I wake up I usually think okay let me just write  

down everything I still remember about this book  maybe some kind of quote especially touched me  

and I want to write about this specific quote for  example like literally a few days ago I was jally  

about this quote from the book The Mountain is  you I'm still reading this book but the quote was  

something like people are not wired to be happy  we're wired to be comfortable and when I read  

that quote I was like ooh I really want a journal  about that like what do I think about this quote  

do I agree do I disagree because we don't always  have to agree with everything we read in books  

another powerful way to make your language notes  more effective is to turn them into flash cards  

and the resource that can help you hear a lot is  dual cards you can create your own or choose from  

the collections available on their app they have  the space repetition algorithm integrated so you  

can learn your words faster and not spend time  thinking about what words you need to revise  

today and you guys know that I'm a huge proponer  of learning your words with this method I have  

some exciting news for you because I decided to  partner up with dual cards to create my own set of  

cards for you the step was created exclusively for  you guys and it includes the most common Advanced  

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advanced and you will increase your V vocabulary  and while you'll be learning new words from my  

set of Courts you can also check out their AI  assistant it's a really cool feature that can help  

you get answers to your questions about language  learning let's say you watch the video about yoga  

on Dual cards and you're just not sure how to use  the word incorporate in your conversations how can  

I use the word incorporate in my conversations  with native speakers okay incorporate means to  

include or integrate something into a larger hole  I feel like for me right now I'm definitely trying  

to incorporate more fresh herbs into my recipe  so it is a perfect example and of course as you  

can see here you can ask the AI choot to make  a story from your cards just click here and all  

of your vocabulary cards will be converted to a  pretty interesting story this way you'll be able  

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this portion of the video now let's talk about  the second not taking method the bullet Journal  

method I learned about this method from the book  with the same title I used to Bullet Journal a  

lot before I switch to notion but we'll talk about  notion later in this video I remember when I was  

in college all I did was bullet journaling because  I found it extremely effective and I also really  

liked writing on paper maybe a lot of people think  that bullet journaling isn't something serious but  

I think that this notebook is not just for random  scribbles that gather dust when used effectively  

it becomes a powerful tool to sharpen your focus  so grab a piece of paper and split it into three  

columns list everything you're currently tackling  in the First Column what you should be doing in  

the second and what you want to do in the third  this exercise can give you a clear view of how you  

your time and the choices that you make every  single day and then you can brainstorm and think  

about these questions are they aligning with your  aspirations evaluate each task is it important is  

it necessary if not strike it off your list keep  only what truly matters where I found bullet  

journaling especially useful is in achieving my  goals because I had that like goal collection  

in my bullet Journal so you can write down all  of your goals your language goals big or small  

and to turn your vague thoughts into tangible  targets also from the same book I learned about  

the school 5 4 3 2 1 method so basically you have  to identify goals for the next 5 years 4 months 3  

weeks 2 days and 1 hour this approach can really  give your Ambitions structure and Clarity and  

you can see if like what you're doing now really  aligns with what you are going to want to be doing  

in 5 years let's say or even in 4 months the next  note taking method is called the cornal not taking  

system this is a very structured method for taking  and organizing notes that was developed by Walter  

pck an education professor at corla University  in the 1940s so again you take a piece of paper  

and divide it into three sections the first one is  called notes section this is where you're going to  

be writing down your main notes or lecture content  I actually used this note-taking approach a lot  

when I was in college and I found it extremely  useful it really helped me organize all of my  

notes and then find something very specific when  I needed it the most this area is basically for  

all of your key points Concepts and ideas of  course try to use summarized language to capture  

the essential information better not to write  incomplete sentences to save time and space the  

second section is your Q column the Q column is a  narrow column located on the left side of the page  

it's usually about 1/3 of the page width in this  column you write down cues or questions related to  

the notes you've taken in the main section these  cues can serve as prompts for review and also  

self- testing later on you can write down keywords  questions or prompts that will help you recall the  

information from your notes and finally the bottom  section is called your summary section the space  

is basically reserved for summarizing the main  ideas and key points covered in the notes you  

can use this section to synthesize information  from the main note section and reinforce your  

understanding of the material and when I was in  college this bottom part in particular helped me  

so much find the information I was looking for  way faster because in this summary section I had  

some key points you know in my own words and I  could reference them after the lecture cuz like  

you really don't want to be reading through this  notes column because it's so long and so so big  

and sometimes you're just like I don't have time  for that and when you just flip through the pages  

of your notebook and you look at your summary  section this can save you so much time and the  

whole process of finding the information you're  looking for becomes easier simpler faster and  

finally let's talk about notion because I think  it can become an amazing tool for taking notes and  

organizing everything on your computer especially  for college students I know how much college  

students High high school students like using  notion for organizing everything and even people  

after college honestly I have a lot of friends  me included I love using notion for organizing  

my work and my studying like language learning  there's so many different things you can do on  

notion you can create databases you can organize  everything in this like table format create new  

pages connect all the pages use formulas so many  cool things if you want to get access to my notion  

template for language Learners you can check it  out in the description below I worked on it for  

a while because I really wanted to make sure  it looks interesting but it's also functional  

I included a few Advanced formulas so that you can  see how long you've been learning the language for  

and also how far into the language Journey you  are now so I think it's going to be it for this  

video I really hope you liked it because today I  mentioned so many different techniques and methods  

that can help you take notes more effectively we  talked about three types of notes like fleeting  

notes literature not notes and permanent notes  I shared an amazing app dual cards that can help  

you learn the language with flashcards you learned  about the bullet Journal method the coronal note  

taking system and I shared my notion template for  language Learners you will find all the links in  

the description below this video apart from  taking good quality notes what really helped  

me become fluent in English and in Spanish was  establishing good micro habits and if you're  

curious what micr changes especially help me  click on this video and continue watching [Music]