ever notice how the words You' have memorized don't come to mind when you need to speak on the spot it can be frustrating right you put in the effort to remember them but they don't come out naturally during a conversation and this video we'll explore why your vocabulary might stay passive and how you can make it more active active vocabulary is the words that you constantly use without even thinking about it passive vocabulary includes all the words that you know but don't really use for various reasons Even in our native language passive vocabul outnumbers active
the ability of your mind to retrieve those words from your passive vocabulary while speaking is a skill and it can be developed through practice and exposure let's discover what stands in a way of adopting that skill reason one you've never spoken a word solution learn like kids do as you might already know I'm currently learning Spanish and here is a little secret that's been working wonders for me learning like kids do 95% of their language progress is thanks to imp put if you think about how three-year-olds talk they often copy you they repeat everything you
say they don't memorize lists of words out of context they memorize full sentences context and emotions tied to them they listen and repeat so what can you do you can combine reading with listening to Audi books you can rewatch your favorite TV show or listen to different podcast like the bridg wers podcast then you pick a little snippet you listen to how Native speakers said the sentence and you repeat after the speakers out loud if you can't access friends or other legendary TV shows on your Netflix accounts while being abroad I highly recommend giving Atlas
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description right now or you can also scan this QR code reason two you learn words separately solution quality over or quantity fluency is not about the number of words you know it's about expressing yourself confidently and clearly so are you really able to use the words that you know if you learn words in isolation you're more likely to forget them and never use them ever again instead of memorizing a single word explore the words that usually accompany them basically learn phrases let's take the word priority as an example maybe you're not sure how to use
this word you kind of know it but you cannot imagine yourself using it because you don't know the context of this word for this I highly recommend using yish it's a free resource they basically use YouTube videos for reference you type in priority and you can see that you can use this word this way you can say I made it my priority it's my top priority or it's my number one priority in fact the people of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union their first priority would be to renegotiate so now it's a
lot more clear and you can start using this word a lot more naturally because you know the context so by focusing on the words you already know you can create Connections in your memory and that's why what I usually do when I try to memorize new vocabulary with anky is every time I create an example sentence I make sure that I know all the words because often times I see people have example sentences that have new words for them like they don't actually know these words and I'm like how are you going to remember the
context if inside the context you have words that you don't know to shift your passive vocabulary into active you need to repeat what you know efficiently reason three you make it hard and boring by accident solution connect emotionally I love discovering ways to hack my brain and one of the most effective ways is letting my brain know the importance of this new vocabulary when you merely memorize a random word your brain has nothing to connect it to but when you learn in context when you read the books from your childhood like what I'm doing in
Spanish right now when you watch your favorite TV shows and especially when you explain what you have just learned to your friend or even to yourself by practicing active recall you create Visual and emotional connections to the word instead of just memorizing a word let's say you're watching your favorite show you see this line from their dialogue and you see the context so try to create a similar situation in your brain like where you would use this word and repeat the same sentence out loud multiple times maybe write it down maybe save it to your
ay so that again you have something to connect it with usually when I memorize words this way I even take screenshots from YouTube videos that I watch or shows that I watch and I add everything to to Ay so that every time I open this word I remember oh I actually was trying to watch this YouTube video and I saw this word there or I was watching this TV show and this is how the actors use it there learning is supposed to be enjoyable it should be fun then those neurons in your brain will be
firing up to make those connections even stronger then like magic one day something clicks and a whole bunch of words that were stored away in passive vocabulary become accessible and you start using them in your everyday conversations reason for stop memorizing solution start using try to reinforce your new vocabulary by associating words with your daily tasks common everything you see on your daily walk Journal leave comments under your favorite YouTube videos by your favorite creators send a voicemail to your friend or even speak to yourself sometimes I do that too because I don't know like
I want want to try to memorize this one specific word and I feel like if I try to create this situation and I speak to myself a little bit it helps me Mize this word more efficiently I even made a video a few months ago about how you can learn a foreign language without talking to people so you can click right here to watch this video sometimes what can help is some sort of collaboration in the past I used to attend a lot of speaking clubs and they helped me a lot in terms of developing
my speaking skills in English they usually provide a safe space for you to practice your language and this way your progress can Skyrocket the most important thing to remember is you have to stay relaxed and have fun because that's when your brain really opens up to learning reason five impatience solution be kind to yourself but committed unlike many other skills languages take longer to show Improvement persistence is always key in language learning if you want to see immediate results you have to wait ask for feedback or record yourself speaking every single week to see your
progress you can try focusing on vocabulary that you know but struggle to remember while speaking your intentional work will not only make your speech sound smoother and less robotic but it will also prevent excessive memorization you all know that everything I share on this channel is based on my personal experience learning a lot of different foreign languages so let's get back to our word priority make it a priority to actively use what you already know remember that learning isn't a race it's an incredible journey that transforms you along the way keep exploring keep growing and
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