Think in English Tips - Monolingual vs Bilingual English Dictionary | Go Natural English

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Hey hey hey, what's up? It's your favorite American English teacher here
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My name is Gabby if you didn't already know and this is go natural English today
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I want to share with you some tips for using a
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monolingual dictionary
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in English that means English to English
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not English to Spanish English to Portuguese English to Arabic English to Turkish or whatever your native language may be this is the
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universal English dictionary monolingual means one language English to English
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So it's very important that you start using a monolingual dictionary
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and you throw out your bilingual dictionary because we need to develop your
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thinking skills in English
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Why?
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because when you're always
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Translating from English to your native language from your native language back into English it takes a long time
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So if you're participating in a conversation in English or trying to participate you can't just be like hey guys wait wait wait
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Can you just stop?
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while
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I check my dictionary because I'm not sure what you said so everybody just stop talking because I need to translate this real quick
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Okay, got it now. Let me translate my thoughts from my native language back into English, okay guys
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I'm ready to actually respond now. It doesn't work like that especially
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in fast conversations
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maybe in a meeting or like a
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high-powered business situation you need to be ready to respond and in order to respond you first have to
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Understand so we need to get your thinking skills going in
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English fast the best way to do that or one of the best ways is to use a monolingual dictionary
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Now some people say
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But Gabby, it doesn't work when I look up a word in a monolingual dictionary
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It just gives me more
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Words that I don't know so I still don't understand the word that I looked up and now I feel even more
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Confused because all the other words are new and I'm confused and now I feel really dumb and bad
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And why did I even try guys?
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Relax, it's gonna happen. Do you remember the last time in your language in your native language that you didn't know?
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What a word meant I'll give you an example in English okay. I learned a new word the other day
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amortization
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What does it mean? Well I?
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Kinda sorta thought I knew what it meant
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But I looked it up and even after I looked it up in an English English dictionary
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I did something else I looked for examples of how it is used on
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Websites, and I did something else I looked for images
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Through Google Images so I googled this word
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And then I looked at pictures to see how it was visually
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Described and this is an awesome way for you to clarify any doubts about a new word is
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Use Google images and also look at how the word is used in
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Context on other websites so that you have a variety of diverse
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and
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numerous sources of information not only your one monolingual dictionary
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But now you have the whole internet. Oh my gosh. The Internet's pretty awesome
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I don't know if you've heard of it
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but it's a great place to find out more information about words and
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meanings of things you can learn anything on the internet even English, okay, so
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Use all of the tools out there and don't give up if you don't succeed
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Right away you have to try and try again
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If you don't get the meaning right away just
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Breathe and keep looking for information, or you know just let it go because it actually takes several
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recurrences of the word several times
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to learn a word
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By heart to really understand the meaning and to remember that word so it's okay
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It's okay, if at first you don't
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Quite understand the meaning of the word, and you can't remember it at all
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So just relax and keep going with English keep reading keep listening
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And maybe make a note of those words
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That you'd like to look up that you'd like to learn more about and trust me with this
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Positive attitude and not giving up of just keeping going day after day you're going to improve quickly
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You're already improving. You're watching go natural English you're doing the right thing
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So thank you so much for watching if you liked this
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Tip on how to learn English how to think in English?
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then you would love my video on how to stop translating in your head and
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Think in English right up there. You can watch it and make sure if you have not subscribed to go natural English
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And I'll see you again in another video soon mwah bye for now
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