Hi, this is Lenner, Personal Language Trainer of Brazil Volunteers. And now I want to talk to you a
little bit more about How to speak a foreign language very fast and
effectively,You only have to take my advice and follow Rule 1. What is Rule #
1? It is learn phrases not individual words. So, of course, what is a phrase? A
phrase is a group of words, two or three or more words. So, that´s Rule # 1,
it´s very simple, very easy, that you need to learn phrases, phrases, phrases.
Focus on phrases, not on individual words.
So this is pretty simple, right? But it´s very powerful. And let me tell
you why it´s powerful. So I know you probably learned English with normal
textbooks and in normal schools. And so you´ve probably studied a lot of
individual English words, right? You have your vocabulary list. There would be
one word and then there would be the meaning in your language, the translation.
So, that´s not so good. What we really want to do is learn phrases, groups of
words, and there are a few reasons for that.
Number one, when you learn phrases, you are actually learning a little
bit of grammar each time. Because what is grammar? Grammar really is the way
that words go together. It´s how we put words together and which words go
together, right? So we know that “he” and goes. Those go together. He goes to
the store. We don´t say he go to the store, right? So we learn after time it´s
he goes, he goes. He goes. That´s the correct phrase. You don´t need to know
about past and present. You don´t need to know about first person, second
person, third person. You don´t need to think about all those grammar rules but
what you do need to do is just know that these words go together. And how do
you do that?
The easiest way is you just learn phrases. So when you find a new word
for you, something that´s new, in your notebook always write the words that it
is with. Write the whole sentence or write the phrase that it is in. Very, very
important. And then when you review your vocabulary, when you look at your
notebook again, you never study just the one word. You always review and try to
remember the whole phrase. And you learn the meaning of the whole phrase. When
you do this, of course you´re learning a lot of vocabulary, but you´re also
learning some grammar. But you´re learning it in a more natural way, the way
that native speakers learn it. So that´s one of the big benefits of learning
phrases instead of individual words. It´s a very, very natural way to improve
your grammar and to learn grammar. It´s not the only way, there are other ways,
too, and we´ll talk about those in later rules. But it is certainly one way
that´s very powerful.
Another important thing about learning phrases, it´s faster. Now we´ve
got a lot of research studies, there´s a lot of information about this and about
learning phrases and learning individual words. And we find that when you learn
phrases, when you focus on phrases, in fact you improve two to three to even
five times faster using phrases instead of just individual words. So when you
do this, again why is it so powerful? Because you´re learning in groups of
words.
If you study word by word, one word and then one word and then one word,
it´s not natural, right? When we speak we don´t speak one word by one word by
one word. We speak in groups of words. We speak in phrases. And in fact, this
is how native speakers, you know, Americans or Canadians or British people,
this is how learn English. We always learn words in groups, almost never just
one. And this is true for little children, too. Little children usually learn
groups of words, chunks of words. And that´s why they can learn so quickly.
They´re not studying one by one by one. They´re learning whole groups of words.
In the beginning they only know what the phrase means. Maybe they don´t know
every single word in the phrase, but they understand the whole meaning of the
group. And then later, of course, as they learn more phrases they will also
begin to understand each individual word.
This is a much faster way to learn a lot of vocabulary. It´s also the
best way to speak faster. When you´re speaking if you think of each individual
word, word by word, your speaking will usually be kind of slow. And it will
sound unnatural because you´re speaking word by word by word by word. You have
these strange breaks when you´re speaking. That´s quite normal for a lot
students because they studied in schools, they used textbook. The breaks, when
they stop, when they pause, they sound very strange to an American, to British
person. They sound kind unnatural. Because they learned individual words, not
phrases. We learn phrases. When do we pause? When do we have a break? Well we
break between phrases. That´s what sounds natural.
So this will also increase your speaking speed. The more you study
phrases the faster you will speak. And also your speaking will sound more
natural to native speakers, to Americans, to Canadians, to Australians, etc.
and that´s very important. It will help other people understand you better.
So as you can see, there are a lot of very important n you learn phrases
instead of individual words. Fellas,this is very powerful but so, so simple.
How do you use it? It´s easy. Every time you hear a new word, every time you´re
reading and you see a new word, always write down the whole phrase. Write down
the other words that are with it. When you review, when aou look at your
notebook again and you study a little bit… again you never study just the one
word, always the whole group, always and the phrases. That´s it. Very simple,
very easy and yet super powerful. So do this every time that you learn
something now with English, alright?
When you do this you´re going to speak faster, you´re going to learn
three, four, five times faster. Everything will improve, even your grammar.
Okay so that is all for today. That is all for rule # 1. We will see you next
time. Thank you and have great day and a wonderful 2017 when you will be
speaking English or any other language.
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