The Secret to Remembering Vocabulary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- OMG, there are too many English words to learn! Well, I can help. Watch this video to learn my own trick for remembering new words. In order to show you how this trick works, I will also teach you the following five words: hammered, creamed, bald, beard, and condo. After watching this video, remembering new words will be a piece of cake. Take the quiz here: www.engvid.com/the-secret-to-...
Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I will teach you a trick on how to remember vocabulary. So English has the largest vocabulary out of any language. I think it's close to 600,000 words in English. So how are you going to remember so much vocabulary? Well, when I was in China, I created a little trick -- and other people use this trick, too -- that really helped me to remember all the new words I was learning. So in this video, I will teach you this trick.
So what you do -- I have a bunch of interesting pictures on the board -- is any time you come up across a new word and you're learning a new word, you need to make a picture in your head of this word. A good idea is to try to think of other words that sound like this word and imagine funny situations in your mind. So what do I mean by that? Well, let me show you.
The first word I'm going to teach you today is "bald", "bald", b-a-l-d. What does it mean to be "bald"? It means to have no hair, okay? So if you have no hair, you are "bald". How do you remember this word? Well, if you use my trick, you can imagine a word that sounds like "bald" -- maybe "ball", basketball, soccer ball. So in your mind, I want you to imagine a ball. It can be a basketball, a soccer ball -- any type of ball. Now, imagine the ball with a face. Imagine the ball with no hair on top, maybe a little hair on the side, a little hair here, but no hair on the top. Because "ball" and "bald" sound alike, if you imagine this picture for maybe ten seconds, it will help you to remember it in the future, okay? Think "ball with no hair". Okay.
Let's try our second word: "beard". What's a beard? It's the hair that comes off a man's chin -- usually, women don't have beards. So it's the hair that comes down like this. How are we going to remember this word? Well, imagine a man with a beard, and inside the beard is a bird, a little bird, tweet tweet! And what's it doing in the beard? Why, it's drinking beer. Okay? So this little picture is -- don't know if you can see that, but that is beer. So imagine a bird drinking beer. Those two words together -- beer. This isn't beer; this one is. Imagine "bird" and "beer". Together, if you put the words together, they make "beard". A bird drinking beer in a beard. Can you say that fast? "Bird drinking beer in a beard." So maybe, if you picture this for ten seconds, you will remember this word. Okay.
Next word I want to teach you today: "creamed". So what does it mean to be "creamed"? "We creamed you guys." "You guys got creamed." It means someone lost a game very badly. If our team creamed your basketball team, your basketball team lost; our team won. So you don't want to be "creamed". If you get "creamed", it's bad. It means you lost, you lose. So how can you remember this? Well, imagine someone -- maybe somebody you don't like, somebody you play basketball against or some sport. Imagine throwing a bunch of ice cream and it hits their face -- because the keyword "cream", "ice cream". So if you can imagine ice cream on someone's face, it will help you to remember the word "creamed". So imagine that for ten seconds. So think "ice cream on face", "creamed".
I've been learning English for almost three years now and I find it very easy to remember nouns. But all other parts of speech are whole different story. And the most difficult part is words with dozens meanings like "smart". It's a very common word and I'm pretty sure anyone know its basic meaning even if (s)he doesn't know English, but check this out:
0. smart girl (clever, intelligent)
1. smart rain (heavy, intensive)
2. smart wine (heady, strong)
3. smart pace (brisk, spirited)
4. smart distance (considerable, great)
5. look smart (elegant, stylish)
6. his eyes were smarting from the dust (hurting)
7. he is still smarting from a put-down (grieving)
8. I hope you'll smart for your carelessness! (pay for)
Yay! That's cool, isn't it? "Smart" doesn't look simple now, huh?
1 and 5 is all that is needed
Nobody speaks the entire English dictionary.
Right, write, right.
Bat, bat.
Red, read... read.
Flat land, flat pop, flat of pallets.
Horse, hoarse, whores 🙃
I could go on, but yea... English is quite the language
Im a native speaker and ive never heard of any of them but 1 and 5 :)
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She is a special teacher. I like her a lot. I'm learning a lot.
yes . she is much pretty and nice teacher
You are right
Nice teacher
@@ameetmakheeja5936 Here you go 💘😂😂🤣😜
I love Emma's way to remember words so it's why learners need a smart teacher to teach them. If you have a good teacher as Emma, you will save time and money for study!
"A bird is drinking beer in the beard !"
What an amazing method it is to remember words in simialr pronounciation !
Thank you for your lesson !
I can correct you .. right there .. yes English has around 600 000 words but it isn't the largest .. Arabic is .. with more than 12 000 000 words.
Mcde Metpu What about Japanese?
Japanese, Chinese & Korean all has no more than 500 thousand words counting repeating definition with ancient and new terms .. 150,000 for French, 130,000 for Russian & 100,000 for Spanish .. in average a man use 6000 word in every day English & 40000 the average words knowing by a educated college American ..
you must remember character, tones and meaning in chinese
Yes, but in number of words is poorer, tones & vowels in usual is to cover up the shirking vocabulary in a dying language, and if they seem to repeat the same word over and over for some people, it is may be for that reason .. Hausa language proverb even simplify that by saying that even a donkey can speak Hausa .. there is even a language in Africa that uses clicks of the tongue which remind us of the Maurice code rather than a language ..
Greek also has huuuge vocabulary and since english and a few other european languages have borrowed some of it her saying that sounds hillarious in my ears xDD
Gostei deste modelo de lição, nós ajuda a memorizar as palavras. Parabéns.
dearest Emma, every time I watch your videos I am amazed at the clear and straightforward way you have of explaining things!!! I am an ESl teacher myself and I thank you for sharing your videos!!!
Thank you so much, I am a year eight who is struggling with their vocabulary. After doing this for a few weeks I feel a lot more smarter and capable.
I thing that I have to say this : Arabic holds 12,300,912 words , english is the second and it hold 600.000 words ;)
exactly!
Yup. Love her videos but after the United states, China, Korea and far east is all she knows about. TYpical.
magavigore hxh
when she said that, I was like “hold on! that’s not true I swear Arabic surpasses that"
magavigore second that!
Thanks this is amazing to remember
There are words more dificult to memorize - but is good to know tactics to settle in mind - thanks a lot teacher Emma
English in comparison with some languages like Persian or Hindi is very young, for example, we have around more than 226 million words in Parsi/Farsi.I am a big fan of your lessons Emma.You are one of the motivating teachers I've seen.
The fascinating thing about the english language is that you can express the entire range of human emotions with just one word.
+Chef Derek Butt (ChefB) actually in spanish too, although there feelings I do not know how to say them in English, since apparently there is no translation as: "te amo", "te quiero", "me encantas", "soy un enamorado", "estoy enamorado", "me enamoraste", "me regodeo", etc. So that's why I say in Spanish. bye!
Here I try to explain some words that have no translation from Spanish to English.
“Te amo”: I love you (the same).
“Te quiero”: someone whom you have affection but not love. Someone who you want much but do not give your life for her.
“Soy un Enamorado”: being that feels love for another. (you are that being).
“Me encantas”: captivate your attention for her natural attractions like magic.
“Estoy enamorado”: I am in love (the same).
“Me enamoraste”: give birth and grow your love for her/him
“Me Regodeo” : Pleasure or satisfaction experienced by something
that is harmful to another.
greetings from Mexico!
Hey man there other lagauge also which expresses the whole emotional as u know English that's why r saying this........hindi language also has its unique features
Lol hahahah
Chef Derek Butt lier i can express my emotion with this luburublarbadaburwubuduwbrwbrublrwrl
Great lesson thank you!
since i've discovered this site, i have to admit, i only see your lessons Emma, you're an amazing teacher by your nature, thanks for helping us
Thank you very much. I am learning English everyday with teachers like you.
Arabic vocabulary are more in my opinion.. and thanks for Ur grat video s I have learned a lot.
*Awesome video and channel and such a pretty teacher.*
this is a valid way to learn just for some simple worlds.english has a massive complicated words and sometimes we have to learn by heart the complex phrases that we can not use just this way.
The most powerful way to learn new words, as for me. More such videos )))
condo= can do= I can do whatever I want in my house. Easy.
Yo genius
Condom,
I remember vocabularies with remember emma's face :-)
impeccable explaination of how to mug up Innumural vocabs which sometimes sweep out from mind , leaving us to fall in peplexity. We who learn English are blessed to have a teacher like you.. keep going.
Emma, you're just wonderful. I love your way of remembering some words I didn't know such as "condo"...now I understand what it means....THANK YOU!!! And the idea for imaging picture in the head ...I do it all the time...Thank you Emma once again...
You can use.... imagination, association, connecting words....:-)
Dear Emma , I appreciate this hard working but... It's impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it's so hard to decide what actually counts as a word. The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. However, the number of English words almost 70,000,000. Meanwhile the Arabic words are 90.000.000. I do love you work at all. you worth a lot .
Cone : 2... For condo😝😝
You are superb teacher❤️👌
I am a native English speaker. I am so happy to see people learning my language. Thank you! I am studying Japanese.
Same! Its so hard to remember words...
I am from India, Really enjoying learning English for first time , very impressed by your expression while U teach , THANK U MAM !!!
I'm fall in love for Emma.
Her voice is so sweet!
Thanks ma'am.. your lesson really helped me 😊
From INDIA..
Thanks for your time and dedication Ma'am!
And God Bless You!
Gracias!!
Thank you for this video. I've always wanted to learn a new language, but found that I'm no good at remembering words. Often when I "attempt" to learn a new language, I end up with more questions than answers. I will definitely give this trick a try and pass it down. :)
In Spanish we say condominio,I will remember this way. Thank you Emma.
I am going to take ielts i am looking for a partner to improve speaking
2:50 i will never forget beard hahahaha
Thank you teacher. I'm from Mongolia. Your example was the best for Condo.
YES THAT IS RIGHT , THANK YOU SO MUCH .
this trick will be quite beneficial because of the nature of our brain. our brain learns, remembers and process information if we use "Association" during encoding of information. our brain is also good in remembering something which is visualized. visualization and association are the cornerstone of this technique. i think spaced repetition along with this technique surely be a panacea for once and for all.
how do you remember abstract words???
Very nice
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i'm from Pakistan Really enjoying learning English,,, very impressed by your expression while U teach , THANK U MAM !!!
That is one cool trick Emma! I've heard about similar one before in Mentalist series.(actually it is more about sequence of events, but still..) Protagonist Patrick Jane is like some mental genius and in one episode he was describing similar method as a "Memory Castle". You imagine the best place you know or been (your room for example) and make associations with all the stuff that being stored step by step. Like 1st thing you see when you come in is 1st in the list you have to memorize.Or it can be people
hi Emma, you are very beautful
I think so
When I close my eyes, all I can imagine is you
Exactly...
Lol white worshipper
... not afraid to dump out your purse in front of anyone huh.
Wonderful lesson thank you ..
Thank you very much!
"What's it doing in the beard? Why, it's drinking beer. "
OMG I wanna get her imagination 🤣
How about condom for condo?
bad man don not do like this thing
I agree, this is the best and the easiest way to remember "condo"
You..! Here's my upvote
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Lol xd!
Thank you very much for your lesson!.. It's very useful for us. I hope you will teach us more ...
thank you Emma to increase my knowledge in English language ;you are the Institutor
IN ARABE 12.5 MILLIONS WARDS
Wow that is amazing.
+Freedom Fighter agree😂😂
In computer language , there are only two words, 0 and 1
i'm Arabian and i can tell how hard our language is ! but it's beautiful
Manal YM yes Arabic it's an a beautiful language but it's not too difficult to learn
Shit this is how she remembers hard ass words like condo?
bluediablo9 lmfao
bluediablo9 😂😂
you are so clear! I love your lessons!
Thanks for your tips ms.emma :)
All these words sound sexual
Haha.
You watch too much porn haha
Perhaps you're sexually frustrated?
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You’re right
Condo-condom))
Thank so much for your trick to remember vocabulary ! It's really useful and one of the methods to remember new words
Thank you you are wonderful teacher.
Somebody would like to practice english via chat?
Me !!!
also me
William Steins Yes
more than 12 million word in Arabic :p
ms Emma
thank you all thanks
you are a respected teacher
in fact, i love all your lessons
Help me today, how to help tomorrow myself
So, i like to improve English language
finally, i wish you all of the best
Thanks for your nice lessons Emma, you make very easy to learn,regards
English has the largest vocabulary out of every language? I don't think so at all. Actually, I believe it has one of the most limited ones. At least from my experience, english is not even remotely close to german, french and of course spanish when it comes to using different options or alternatives to describe the same thing.
One second, As far as I am concerned English is a rich language in words,. Once I remeber a friend of mine thought English was so limited in words and he said to me in English English speakers use only the Word beautiful , but in Spanish he said so many adjectives , for example lindo, hermoso, bello, atractivo precioso, magnifico, estupendo, grandioso, maravilloso, monono etc.,. And I told him, EXCUSE ME in English we have also a lot of synonyms for that Word: For example Gorgeous, pretty, wonderful, lovely, cute, splendid, good-looking, attractive, breathtaking for a lanscape for instance, marvelous, precious and used in every day conversation He said, I HAD NO IDEA
. Please, don't get me wrong I only try ot explain or clarify this point because a lot of peolple think English is limited, but educated people have a wealth of vocabulary. The same happen in Spanish : Many people use the same words . Ok, I find all this pretty interesting.
I gotta go now because my daughter wants me to go shopping. BYE
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Yes, you are actually right. But that doesn't change the argument. I wasn't suggesting that english is totally limited when it comes to vocabulary, but it is unjustified to say that it has the largest vocabulary of all languages. Other languages are more complex and have different alternatives in the construction of sentences and ideas, something that of course doesn't change the fact that you are describing but it actually makes english more limited in comparison to spanish, for example.
Daniel Gámez learn a new languague is quite difficult.
Sorry, I know 4 languages I know how difficult it is.
Daniel Gámez Definitively I totally agree about your comments!! OH you so smart!! I am learning my third language German is quite difficult.
arabic language has the most vocab in the world ..
I agree 100% with you, tks Emma, it's easy to understand and apply this in the real life
she show the easy ways for memorizing the words thanks a lot!!!
Sorry Emma, but English hasn't the largest number of vocabulary, it's arabic.
How about Chinese vocabulary?
@@chenyangzhang8316 Not even close.
Correction: arabic language Has the largest Vocabukary in the PLanet
english:600 000
arabic :12 302 912
sanskrit language has the largest vocabulary.
you are right
Big Philip the evidence in the dictionary!
Thanks Emma very interesting
it would be so nice if Emma could reply to comments when she can, it would make people feels that she is happy with their feedbacks
arabic 12.300.000 words my teacher , wake up
+muslim united who cares ? arabic is a dying language anyway
+Aymen Fayçal It isn't a dying language. S/he was just pointing out a mistake the lady had said.
Ayah Al-Sibaai no he was bragging about arabic having more words which is stupid , im a native arabic speaker , you just talk a lot to convey a small meaning sometimes this is why having 12 million words is not a quality it just means you talk a lot and there are lany unnecessary words taht could be neglected.
Arabic has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more words than English
Arabic has about 12 million words
I wonder why? Is Arabic older than English?
I tried to learn vocabulary using flashcards and I learnt how to write some words correctly and I also learnt their meanings. However when I'm talking to someone else and I need to use those words, then I can´t quite remember. I'm going to use this method, it sounds far fetched but funny as well. Thank you Emma for doing this videos, it's incredible how easy I understand everything you say, and you explain always clearly.
Very helpful lesson, thank you ☺️
Btw if english has 600 k vocabularies ...arabic language has 12 millions and im not even kidding.
Thats for sure.
Arabic has 12 302 912 words.
I would like to thank you soooooo much Emma for sharing us your time and health to make us know allot of thing about English thanks from the heart
Thank you. It is interesting!!!
I really find all of your videos helpful! thanks to this amazing technique... :)
Thank you so much Excellent Teacher 🙏🏻💐
haha yes dude !! I met with Emma when I was studying ielts exam...i passed the exam but still,ı watch her lessons to see her smile.....from Turkey
Very good tricks to remember english words. Thank you for this Lesson.
You are amazing,thank you very much for sharing your knowledge
I struggle with expanding my vocabulary as well. I scan the news on the Internet and not surprisingly there are lots of vocabulary I do not know of. I watched all videos here and your video helped me as well. I use this as a trick, when I know a word that is similar to new word I am trying to learn, I make a sentence that has both words in it. For instance if I didn't know 'ice-cream' but knew 'cream' as a word, I would make a sentence such as 'I ate ice cream while I was applying cream to my face.' When you use similar words you remember the sentence easily and you remember the meaning. It doesnt have to be cream, it should be a word sounding similar to the word I try to learn, I often imagine the sentence I made up myself to remember the meaning. Then I manage to remember it so often. It works for me. I do the same thing when I learn different meanings of one word, I try to use different meanings in one sentence, it doesnt always produce logical, meaningful sentences btw in both cases.. but your mind manages to remember it anyway. It worked for me. Thank you so much for the helpful videos!
For instance silly but I was learning 'flush' and it has so many meanings. I made up a sentence that goes like 'My face flushed with anger after I learned you didn't flush the toilet after you.' It is silly as you can see but it works, I remember both meanings of 'flush'.
this method is intersting to remember the new vocabulary... thank you very much for sharing video. i will attempt to pratice the your methd in learning english....
You are really amazing, Emma!!!^-^
This trick is great :-). It makes it a lot easier to remember words in a foreign language. The first time i heard about it was in a book on learning foreign languages.
I have always being learning language with the help of pictures in my head. But a bird dinking beer in a beard is the funiest one I have ever tried to imagine :D Thank you that you've made me lauph!
You're a great teacher if you teach me practically I think I can get 9 bands easily
hi, nice tricks to remember words. I would like to use this for my students too.
good job.
Beautiful Emma you are the most smart teacher I ever met. blessings
I learn a lot a this lesson.. She is a good teacher, I improve to this your teaching Thankyou so much Emma 👍👏
I'm 13, and i've never had any problems with ANY words that my teachers have given me for homework. I already know all of the words but it's spanish that i'm having a bit of trouble remembering the vocabulary of, and i'm swedish.
Hiiii🖐 I was going to say you are young you can do this there is a lot of time etc. But know I see it's been 5 years (you are still young ofcourse)😊 and I wonder how are you did you learn Spanish or another languages😊
Thanks a bunch. this helped me a lot for learning those friggin' GRE words. much appreciated! cheers..
It works for me when I associate words in my primary language.
Thank you so much!!
An amazing teacher and a very good class.
thank you so much! God bless you!
Thank you I´ll put in practice your trick.
Thank you. I can finally remember japanese vocabularies! :)
Emma you are smart.. I believe I will remember all these words without working very hard. Thanks
I not understand all english (even write) but you to explain very well. bravissima