Learn English Live Lesson l You can learn English with Sarah l Mirroring Technique

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um so please go ahead and leave your comments  um today we are going to be talking about a very  

useful study method so this is called mirroring  oh pearl hello hi thank you so much for joining  

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uh so today yes we're going to talk about a  great study method called mirror ring so today  

as always i am going to give the lesson um i am  also going to show you some useful study tips uh  

some apps and things you can use to study and  while you are listening please leave comments  

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okay there we go so welcome to the live  stream today let's talk about something  

called the mirroring method so first  let's answer our of course our first  

question what is the mirroring method well  we can think first of course what is a mirror  

well here we see someone looking into a mirror  right you see what we call your reflection  

right looks the same and what you do your  reflection does in the mirror right so this is  

where the name for the mirroring method comes from  is a mirror right it does the same thing as you

mirroring is the careful study of an english  speaker so this includes using verbal and  

nonverbal behavior which we'll talk about so  here uh mirroring we use with video because  

this is something we study and practice over  time so we want to use a recorded video of a  

speaker of an english speaker that we can  use to study and practice their verbal and  

non-verbal behavior so we'll talk about what  that is so you watch a video of an original  

model english speaker and as you watch you  practice mirroring or repeating exactly what the  

speaker is doing this includes verbal behavior  so speaking and the way the person is speaking  

and non-verbal behavior so this is body language  maybe this means their facial expressions  

it can help to look at someone's mouth for  pronunciation what they do with their hands  

what facial expressions they make and so on  so why should you mirror why is this a useful  

strategy you can improve many different areas of  your language learning by doing something like  

mirroring so by watching studying and repeating  native speakers or just good speakers of english  

you can improve things like your rhythm so  rhythm is the uh like the pace and speed at  

which you speak right so each language has some  different rhythm so you can improve your rhythm  

you can improve your intonation and intonation  is the way our voice goes up and down when we  

speak uh any language right so different languages  have different intonation and also the way we talk  

about things we use different rhythm and different  intonation depending on the topic so mirroring  

and watching a really good model and repeating  after a good model speaker and by the way model  

means like a really good example uh maybe  no one is perfect but a great example  

is a model so someone who you want to be like  right oh they do they speak so well i want to  

be like them i they are my model  right they are a good example  

so also you can improve your nonverbal so  non-speaking communication so remember that's  

things like gestures facial expressions and so on  and of course your overall confidence this is an  

easy method to practice and you will see yourself  improve as long as you are consistent of course  

another reason why you should mirror is you can  see how all these different parts of pronunciation  

rhythm and intonation and sentence stress  and word stress and so on make a speaker  

more effective and easier to understand  when they are sharing what they want to say  

and finally it's enjoyable many students who  have used this method say that it gave them  

more confidence and helped them to be interested  in english again so if you feel like uh maybe  

the way you are studying now is not fun for you  or not interesting this is a really great tool  

all right so we now we know what is mirroring and  why you should do it so next let's talk about who  

so i mentioned the word model right this  is the person you are going to choose  

the model can be a native speaker of  english or a really good non-native speaker

choose someone you enjoy watching so maybe  you are really interested in um space and  

new technologies and things like that maybe you  want to watch someone like neil degrasse tyson  

famous scientist if you really enjoy  that content he can be your model  

if you really enjoy watching the news and you  have someone that you really enjoy watching  

you can watch them and model they can be your  model you can mirror them so you can choose anyone  

if you enjoy sports choose your favorite athlete  and watch them in interviews and you can mirror  

them it's up to you who you choose to  model but make sure it's someone you enjoy  

if you are modeling someone who uh so boring then  this will not be fun right so choose someone you  

enjoy you can mirror people on many platforms  like youtube and netflix there are so many options  

available and you can choose the person you want  to watch and you can also choose the topic that  

you are interested in talking about right you're  mirroring someone's speech and body language  

so you can choose the person and topic you enjoy  so that's very important make sure you enjoy it

okay next uh let's talk about how how do you do  it how do you mirror someone what is the method  

so i'm going to give two simple steps and  i encourage you to look back maybe watch  

this part of the video again if this is a method  you want to try uh just to make sure you get it  

so step one is to analyze what you are  watching so let's take a look at this word  

analyze analyze means to look closely right  look at the details and really try to understand  

in a deep way really understand what  you are watching so start by focusing on  

the big picture or the big themes of what  you are watching like who the speaker is  

what they are trying to do and what speech  characteristics they use to accomplish that goal  

so let's go back first who the speaker is uh so  of course you want are you listening to an athlete  

are you listening to a scientist are you listening  to just a normal youtuber who is the speaker and  

next what are they trying to do so maybe you are  watching uh something that is trying to inspire  

you or make you feel motivated like you want to  do something is that what they're trying to do  

maybe they're trying to persuade you  which means to change your opinion  

so is that what they're doing in the video  

maybe you choose to mirror someone who is  teaching is that what they're trying to do and  

so on so there are many things maybe they are just  talking about their daily life maybe they are uh  

just sharing some simple information maybe they  are talking about a product uh and so on there so  

what are they trying to do this is very important  because this changes the way that we speak so for  

example if someone is trying to inspire you  the speed and volume and pausing that they use  

and things again like intonation are going to be  different than if they are teaching you let's say  

so it's very important to know what they are  trying to do in the video is it to inspire you  

is it to teach you is it informal which means  maybe just casual or maybe just talking about  

like a vlog or something talking about their  daily life like they would talk to a friend and  

how are they speaking so this is step one  analyze look closely right who are they  

what are they trying to do and what do you  notice about the way they are speaking to do that  

thing so for example when you listen to me maybe  you notice where what is the purpose of this video  

well of course it's to teach you about this  method so you might notice my speed is slow  

and clear my volume is normal right not too loud  not too quiet and i pause often to make sure that  

you can understand so this is uh these are some  different characteristics or qualities or traits  

when someone is trying to teach right so you  know why you are watching me you know who i am  

what i'm trying to do and you can hear my speech  is different than if i was trying to inspire you  

or persuade you or talk about my daily life right  okay so step one analyze what you are watching  

who is it what are they trying  to do and how are they speaking  

to do that if they are teaching how are they  speaking to teach okay the second step is to  

uh continue to analyze but in this we're going  a little bit deeper so let's change that to  

oh where'd my mask go there we go analyze  more deeply what you are listening to okay so  

maybe it is a 10 minute video well you probably  cannot use this method for the entire 10 minutes  

at one time maybe choose a short segment  maybe something like 15 to 30 seconds  

of the model's speech and focus on their  stress right that the way that they  

emphasize certain words in their sentence their  rhythm their intonation or uh maybe maybe these  

are areas that you are very good at so focus on  your area of need maybe you really want to work on  

your uh your into your body language for example  or you want to work on putting it all together  

and speaking more fluently with good flow and  so on so focus on your area of need for a small  

section of the model's speech then you are going  to spend time practicing it for memorization this  

is another reason why it's good that it's very  short right we don't want to memorize 10 minutes  

of speech and body language that's very hard  maybe you could do the whole thing eventually  

in small sections but just choose something  small and if 15 seconds is too long for you  

you can do even shorter than that you can do one  sentence right so start with something easy for  

you so first spend time practicing it just for  memorizing the words the uh intonation the rhythm  

and then slowly add those non-verbal gestures  movements and facial expressions to fully mirror  

the model so this is mirroring right so we're  going to choose the person that we want to model  

analyze or really look and listen very closely  to their speech and what they are trying to do  

with their speech and then spend a good  amount of time practicing memorizing and  

really working on mirroring what they're doing so  something important is that mirroring takes time  

and practice so some of you this might be  confusing this with another method called  

shadowing shadowing is repeating a speaker with  a short delay so for example maybe i am watching  

a movie in the language let's say i am trying to  learn spanish so if i'm watching a spanish movie  

shadowing is just listening and repeating  right away right there's very short  

time between but that's not mirroring shadowing  can be useful too if your level is a little higher  

and you're just trying to quickly work on your  comprehension and understanding mirroring takes  

time and practice so one to three weeks depending  on how long or how difficult what you chose is  

so if you chose a vlog for example and you  chose 30 seconds of someone talking about  

what they are going to do that day  maybe just one week if you chose a  

topic like technology with a lot of vocabulary and  that's a little more difficult maybe three weeks  

but it takes time and practice so also unlike  shadowing that you are choosing the model and  

you're focusing on verbal and nonverbal so  speaking and body language to mirror the speaker's  

emotions and purpose so this can  be very useful for learning how to  

express similar emotions and a similar purpose so  remember the purpose is the reason why they are  

speaking so their purpose again might be teaching  so maybe you are an english teacher i know some of  

you who watch this channel are so watching  a teacher and mirroring their the way that  

they speak and what they do might help you to feel  more confident in your ability to teach in english  

if you want to talk about a certain topic and try  to persuade someone remember change their opinion  

about some any topic listening to a good model  that you like that is very good at persuading can  

help you to learn and practice the ways that they  do that to become more effective this is something  

that second language learners do so you learning  english but uh we do this in our native language  

as well right there are people who we think are  very good speakers or very good teachers very good  

uh persuaders and we were very good at inspiring  people and we might try to be like them and this  

includes trying to speak like them or express our  ideas like them right so we do this with our role  

models anyway this is just doing it in a second  language and it can really really help you to  

learn how to do it express whatever that  emotion or purpose is more effectively  

okay so next i'm going to give you two very good  resources you can use to help you with this method  

so i'm gonna give you one for netflix and one for  youtube all right so for netflix uh there is a  

google chrome extension so if you use google  chrome you can download this called language  

learning with netflix you can use this to study  your favorite shows and movies on netflix so uh  

let's talk about how to use it quickly you can  download it from the chrome web store which we  

see here right so it's in your settings extensions  and just search for language learning with netflix  

you can also just go to google.com and type  in language learning with netflix and you can  

download it so it's free no money free app  to use free extension and let me show you  

what exactly this does so after you download  it you'll see uh when you watch uh youtube  

or net or when you watch netflix a setting  will come up and you can click to turn it on

so after you turn it on this is the screen that  you will see you can see that it gives you english  

and the subtitles in your language  so for this example i used korean  

uh so here we have english and korean subtitles  but it can be english and any so many languages  

shown at the same time okay so once you  get here you can click the settings button  

and then you'll see this screen so choose  the correct settings the audio so what is  

the language you hear the netflix show in what  the subtitle language is and what the translation  

language is so here again i chose korean  but there are many many options available  

and this is what you'll see and there are some  cool features with this as well you can highlight  

a word and then something will pop up and  you can see the definition of the word

you can click this little play button here to  repeat the sentence and listen again this is very  

good for shadowing or if you want to really  just listen right you can do short 15 to 30  

seconds also very good for studying mirroring  as well so click that button to listen again

then uh if you see the sentence here you can  even hover over or put your mouse over the word  

right so let's say your mouse is here this screen  will pop up and give you definitions and some  

examples of how it's used in the show that you're  watching so you can listen to just one word you  

can listen to a whole sentence you can even  just click the word and hear the pronunciation  

again and again and see the translation in your  language so i think this is a very cool tool

and if you want you can click this button  over here turn this ap on to stop the video  

after each sentence if you want  to study hard and really listen  

again and again so again this is  called language learning with netflix  

this is a really great way to study  with a show or a movie that you like

uh and also the last thing here is you can  click this star button to save the phrase  

so you'll be able to see it again in the future  and this really helps to organize your learning

so that's for netflix uh there's another  one called dual subtitle for youtube  

so same you can find this on the google  chrome store it's also free and it's called  

youtube dual subtitle so it's the same uh  idea right you download it you go to youtube  

and then you can choose the subtitles two at  the same time that you want to see on youtube so  

the netflix one is a little better you can  click the words but here at least with so  

many youtube videos you can see two subtitles at  the same time so i encourage you to use this to  

study your favorite youtube channels and if  the person you want to mirror is on youtube  

this can be a really great way of understanding  what they are saying and what their purpose is  

right so as you read in your native language ah  they're trying to persuade me oh they're trying to  

make me buy something oh they're trying to teach  me right so having these subtitles can help you to  

understand and analyze what they are saying and  then go ahead and begin your mirroring study  

so as i said this extension is similar  to language learning with netflix but for  

youtube so i encourage you guys to use these  well and the last thing the last so we have  

netflix and youtube google chrome extensions and  here is something i have mentioned before ted.com  

so ted is an excellent resource i'm sure many  of you have watched ted talks people from all  

over the world on all different topics  give speeches in front of an audience  

where they talk about so many different topics  many are about teaching and sharing information  

but some are art artistic right there's music  and poetry and um people sharing stories about  

their lives things like that so many different  topics and many many many videos have subtitles in  

other languages so if you want to study  some very very good model english speakers  

ted.com is excellent for this you can improve your  listening speaking your vocabulary and your body  

language these people on ted are presenting  so they are very careful and very purposeful  

with their body language how they are speaking uh  and because there are so so so hundreds of topics  

you can choose from you can really improve  your vocabulary about many different topics  

also the videos have full transcripts so a  transcript is the whole everything that the person  

says in the video that you can read and you can  also see a translation of the whole transcript so  

this can help you with mirroring right you have it  right there before you you can memorize practice  

and really learn to mimic some really excellent  english speakers okay guys so that is it for  

today for this lesson about mirroring this  is a really great way to learn and practice  

and i really hope you give it a try so let's go  ahead we'll pop back over here all right guys so

uh oh here we go already a comment you will  become my mirror i love your pronunciation  

and pace oh that's wonderful thank you so  much gladys yeah uh absolutely well that  

is a big compliment thank you so much  and of course we have so many videos  

that you can practice with so that's awesome thank  you so much i like all your videos i'm from egypt  

and i follow them all well that is really really  really great to hear thank you i'm so glad  

your english is really clear more than a lot  of native speakers who speak very fast thank  

you very much i'm happy to hear that so of  course i try to speak clearly so you guys  

have an easier time to understand me thank  you so much for sharing great tips of course  

yes i i really love this method this is something  i use when i am trying to study another language  

it's really helpful and it can be really fun  because you choose what you want to watch  

and who you want to listen to and mirror in  that language hello from the north of iraq  

well hello thank you so much for coming today i  hope you enjoyed the lesson okay let's see i can  

easily understand your intonation ruby from  the philippines that is great ruby i'm very  

happy to hear that uh so if that's the case  then maybe you can mirror me okay let's see

and thank you guys so many wonderful  comments here all right lots of hellos  

oh you have many followers in kurdistan but  you didn't mention our local time to start your  

lesson oh my gosh well we'll be sure to do that  next time uh so you can easily see your local  

time thank you for letting me know uh muhammad  hello from egypt hi thank you for joining today  

hi hello thank you so much for joining uh let's  see do you have a youtube channel denise yes we  

do so you can find our youtube link right at the  top of our facebook page it is youtube.com slash  

so if you search english danny d-a-n-n-y on  youtube you will find our channel yes we do  

have a youtube channel oh and it was just posted  in the comment section as well so now you can see  

our youtube link in the comments and  there it is oh there there it is and  

there it also is so yeah so depending on  where you are you can see our uh youtube link  

okay guys i think it looks like we don't have  any any questions just some very kind wonderful  

comments uh thank you guys so much for your  wonderful comments oh i see all the way up at  

9 13 a.m we do have one question not about today's  topic though but a really common question which is  

what is the difference between american english  and british english this is a comment that we get  

kind of often so maybe in the future thank  you uh so here's the comment so maybe in the  

future i will do a video explaining what  some of the differences are so the big  

differences between american english and british  english have to do with pronunciation the way we  

pronounce words especially words with r's and t's  and things like that so pronunciation and there  

are also some spelling differences as well so uh  maybe in the future i'll do a video and we can go  

into detail about what are the differences between  american english and british english okay guys so  

i think that is it for our video today thank you  so much for watching can't wait to see you guys  

next week uh we will be doing another question  and answer video next week so soon i will post  

where you can leave your comments and questions  please make sure to do that uh so thank you guys  

you all are wonderful i hope you enjoyed  today's lesson and see you next week bye guys