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Hey!
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What's up, Awesome Go Natural English Learner?
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Welcome to the episode where today we are
talking about how to improve your English
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using something that you probably already
take with you every single day.
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No, it's not your English textbook.
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It's something else.
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Can you guess?
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Oh, hey!
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Before I forget, I want to invite you to join
my free training for the Go Natural English
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Seven Step Method to Fluency.
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You can join that at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps.
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Okay, can you guess what that thing is that
you carry with you all the time?
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It's your smartphone!
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And your smartphone is a great tool for learning
the English language, regardless of what your
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English teacher may have told you before,
like, "Turn off your cell phone.
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Don't bring your cellphone to class."
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Go Natural English has a completely different
opinion.
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I encourage you to use your smartphone all
the time to help you to learn English and
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in this episode, I'm going to share my favorite
five apps that are all free that can help
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you to improve your English quickly.
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So are you ready?
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Okay, let's go!
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My first favorite app is call Anki.
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It's an app that's like flashcards.
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Instead of having a big stack of flashcards
on paper, Anki is better because, for one,
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it's on your smartphone, and two, Anki shuffles
your cards.
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It's smart.
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It doesn't show you predictable flashcards.
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Like you know how sometimes when you're practicing
on your own and you know what flashcard is
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going to come up?
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It's not like that.
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It's better.
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So, review is really important for you to
remember new vocabulary and you need to see
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your words at least twenty times to be able
to remember it and start to use it.
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So, try Anki.
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Next, number two: My favorite app these days
is Periscope.
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This is an app that's free and it integrates
with Twitter.
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So you need a Twitter account, which is also
free.
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Periscope is live streaming video, which is
awesome.
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You can follow English speakers from anywhere
in the world and when they're doing a live
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video broadcast, you can listen in and you
can practice your English just like if you
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were in another country, listening to English
speakers.
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And what's even better is that you can comment,
you can ask questions, you can interact with
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that person.
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And so I want to ask you to follow @gonaturaleng
on twitter.
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That's where you can tune into our live broadcasts
on Periscope.
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So, follow us on Twitter and follow us on
Periscope at @gonaturaleng.
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Okay?
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Awesome!
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Next, Google Translate is an effective tool
for looking up individual words.
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No, do not rely on Google Translate for everything
all the time.
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I don't recommend it for looking up phrases
or idioms or full sentences because it's not
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a human.
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It's not a real, or good, translation usually.
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So, it is helpful, though, for individual
words sometimes.
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So, keep it on hand, just in case you want
to look up a word, but keep in mind that you
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need to double check to make sure that the
result is correct, okay?
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Alright.
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So, we have so far Anki, Periscope and Google
Translate.
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Evernote is the next app that I want to suggest.
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It's a great way to organize all of these
helpful resources.
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You can file away the websites you like, photos,
audio notes, this video link, for example.
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Evernote is like a file cabinet in your smartphone.
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It's really great.
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A lot of people swear by it for language learning,
for business use and for personal use.
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And finally, number five: Skype or FaceTime.
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These are two awesome ways to be able to connect
in live time on a video chat with an English
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speaker who you can practice with.
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So, keep that on your phone to make calls
and to connect with people using English today.
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I hope that these apps are helpful and I hope
this episode was informative for you.
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Remember you can come join my free training
at gonaturalenglish.com/7steps and I hope
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you see inside where you'll get the free training
and, once you're on that email list that's
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a part of the free training, I'll send you
invites for webinars and other special trainings
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and materials that are just for the Go Natural
English email list members.
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So I hope to see you there!
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Bye for now.
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