How to Improve Your English Vocabulary Fast | Go Natural English

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I got from one of my English Learner students in the go natural English fluency Club

Fatima asked me about how to improve her vocabulary in a good fast way

So I'm going to answer her question as I did in our private online community

but I want to share it with you because I think it's really a

really important question that a lot of you can benefit from

So if you're interested in improving your vocabulary then keep watching it

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So how to build your vocabulary?

Let's begin by talking about why growing your vocabulary is important now in traditional English

classrooms your teacher

Usually will give you a list of vocabulary words that you need to memorize, and you need to know how to spell them

maybe you need to fill in some blanks with these vocabulary words, but I

Don't think just memorizing lists of vocabulary is especially helpful because then it's lacking a step so

When you get into a situation where you want to speak English?

You're not sure how to actually make a sentence with all these words

You know because you just memorized them on their own just a long list of

individual words not joined together

Not making any complete idea and certainly

You don't know how to pronounce them in a group of words

And we know that pronunciation can change depending on the words before and after

Specific vocabulary words, so there are some reasons why I don't recommend. Just memorize long list of vocabulary

One way that I teach and that I also

learn vocabulary and other languages is

this so there's about

Four steps the first step is to find some material that you enjoy in English for me

When I'm learning another language like Portuguese for example

I look for a song that I enjoy in Portuguese

and I listen to that song and then I

Repeat what I hear along with the singer now. I skipped a step there because most of the time

It's pretty difficult to understand lyrics

Just the way you hear them

So I usually look up or search for the lyrics online

And it's usually pretty easy to find the lyrics if it's a popular song. I pull up the lyrics and

I

Read along with the lyrics while I?

listen to the singer so step one is I listen to the song step two is I find the lyrics and

Step two point five is I just listen to the song again while I look at the lyrics step

Three is I read the lyrics or sing the lyrics along with the song while I listen to it

step four then is to turn off the music and

Using the lyrics

to sing the song along with

Reading the words on my own and step five is actually to sing the song without

Listening to the song or without reading the lyrics so this

This formula can work with any material really it could be with the news something short

I really recommend starting with something short

It could be with a poem, but the shorter the better because if you're like me well

You don't have a lot of free time and maybe you have a short attention span

Like I do so that's why I like to use songs or a poem or maybe a short news clip to

Practice building my vocabulary and to practice my pronounce

so

Songs and poems and news clips are really good for your pronunciation

but the point of this video is actually building your vocabulary so

for example in a song

You'd probably find some new words that you haven't learned before this just happened for me in Portuguese

I was using a song called

Ezza down to improve my portuguese and one of the first words in the lyrics is

It's a really hard word for me to say I'm probably gonna say it wrong. It's

Hay gay, which means to?

rebuild and

I'd never heard that word before I had no idea how to say it. I had no idea what it meant so

when I saw that word I

Looked it up. I just googled the word and I found out what it means in English

and I listened to the song over and over and over and listen to how the singer says it until I could say it a

little bit better

So this is a great way to build your vocabulary is to listen to a material that you enjoy

Look for new words that you haven't seen before

Look them up online

using either a dictionary and

or

just search for the word and see what images come up in Google Images or

What sentences come up when you search for the word on Google?

then you found the new words and

Also, of course follow the steps that I said before the five steps where you sing and you read the lyrics or you?

Say them on your own, but you also want to

create

your own

Sentence using this word try even if you're not sure if it's correct try creating your own sentence

Ideally a sentence that you think you might use in the near future so for me

I might try you know for my example. I might try using this word hey get him

please tell me in the comments if I'm saying this correctly which is to rebuild in Portuguese, maybe I would say I

need to

You build my websites for example

Other things you might rebuild could be a house, but I don't really need to rebuild my house

So I'm not going to say that right now

So just think of an example that you might use in a conversation in the near future

write down that sentence and then

repeat the steps that I said before you have the material in front of you, then practice saying it and

Try to get a native speaker or teacher

To say the sentence for you

To check the sentence also and to give you an example of how to pronounce it or to tell you if you're saying the words

correctly and

There you go, then you can practice with that person and then you can practice using

That sentence in your next conversation

And you've started to use at least one new vocabulary word

Possibly you learned many more in the material that you used

I know I learned a few new words and reviewed a few words in that song

So I recommend that you use this formula to improve your vocabulary, but also a huge added benefit

Is it's going to improve your pronunciation and not to mention it's really fun if you enjoy the material you're going to

Enjoy the process of improving your English a lot more than simply memorizing long lists of vocabulary words

So try it out

let me know if you enjoyed this in English lesson leave me a comment and let me know if you have other tips for

Learning new vocabulary words - I would love for you to comment and maybe I could include them in my next video

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