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In this video I'll give you a few tips on how to expand your vocabulary especially f you have little time or feel like you're learning these words but they just don't stick You also learn these words perhaps you've made a list and you're studying these words by heart but when it comes to actually using these words spontaneously in conversation Then you just freeze and suddenly you don't remember the word I learned yesterday When you review your flashcards you immediately know—yes this word means That word means that but in conversation you can't recall it anymore And I know that feeling very very well My name is Judith Bartomew I taught myself German independently and I am currently learning two foreign languages Mandarin and German I'm from France and I teach French and German at the university here And yes I know that feeling very very well You memorize these words and then out in conversation when you're actually speaking the So you're just saying okay yes what's the word I actually just learned And I must also tell you my dears I don’t have any either—this is simply not the best approach right now Likewise each person must personally explore what the best method is for them But I still want to share a method with you today that has worked quite well for me yes in recent times Maybe this approach won't work for you but I still want to share it with you That might help you with language learning which is indeed my goal with this YouTube channel Yes I actually started learning German before with flashcards I initially started studying with flashcards but made them out of paper I've always made these flashcards by hand and just studied them using slips of paper And then at some point I just thought no it's really just effortless you know It takes up a lot of time and for some reason I just can't make progress with this system I can't always bring my flashcards so I need something else Then I tried studying a bit with Anki flashcards but I didn’t do that correctly I also used Anki flashcards but I learned these words in isolation I just wrote a word like "träumen " then used the French translation and that was it—done And I thought yes "dream" is rêver in French okay I've got it now I can use this word No I couldn't use that word Why Because I didn't know that "dream" always comes with a preposition—dream of And then when I spoke I simply said I was dreaming something so That was simply wrong that was simply wrong because I didn't know it always comes with this preposition That means if I were to use these flashcards again right now I’d do it completely differently I wouldn't learn these words in isolation you already know that—never learn words in isolation it just doesn't work You need to learn words with collocations such as verbs paired with specific other words for example With verbs I'd never learn these words or verbs in isolation You always need a preposition or a complete sentence For example with the verb give I give you a book so But you can also though with other verbs it's not the case that you directly use the dative and Accusative for example I was thinking of you you know It's not that I think of you but rather that I've been thinking of you in this case And if you try to learn these words in isolation by yourself it won't work—I'm telling you that right now This applies not only to German but also to other foreign languages That's why with verbs always include the preposition or use a simple sentence It doesn't have to be complicated—just use a normal sentence So that was the first point The second point which is also very important when learning a language while making flashcards It won't work either if you try to learn these words without examples You also need very specific examples but those examples must be relevant to your goal If your goal is to speak better for a job interview then yes you should learn words that are relevant to your goal And I say it again every time because it's hard for me too—look For example I'll give you a very specific instance yes You want to go shopping right You go to the supermarket and then you go inside so then you see the first section on the left is dairy products There are dairy products there so you just take the dairy products like that Then you keep going continue forward and now you'll see the meat section Then you buy a bit of meat keep going find vegetables and fruit and just keep moving through the store And in the end you've bought everything then you come home uh and then at home the You've unpacked everything so now you think hey but I've got it all now bought but yes it somehow doesn't fit so now I have my prescription now I have I just now read my prescription and actually I don't have the products I need And that's exactly how it happens when you learn a foreign language without a plan because look you're just learning for instance you're sitting in a German class or a French class and the teacher Say a word and then you think oh I don't know this word then I absolutely must write it down and learn it But what if this word is one you never use in your everyday life or one that belongs to you If the goal doesn't match you'll memorize this word by heart yes but you'll never actually use it You will never use this word because you failed to recognize that it doesn't align with your goal and holds no relevance for you Dairy products are also good but in this case you might want to make a salad instead And then yes if you've already bought milk you really don't need that And then you burden your mind by learning something you'll never actually use And that's the mistake most beginners make when learning a foreign language They're too scattered and they're learning all the words because they think I need it I need it First think about what you need and why Why do you want to learn this What is your goal And yes there are also many people who memorize these words by heart Also maybe they’ve then selected the right words and they learn those Memorizing words with flashcards yes but they didn’t automate that By automating I mean you have to repeat these words over and over again and again endlessly It's just like working out You want to get better so you might try doing push-ups like this How do you achieve that You have to go to the gym every day and try to do a pull-up Every day every day Practice makes perfect And that's exactly how language learning works—you must repeat repeat count sentences to become more fluent and eloquent and simply be able to speak better It's just like at the gym And if you'd like to join my German Fitness Studio it's not actually a gym This is my German Fitness Studio Here you learn with us to automate these words You know you could learn on your own and you can do it by yourself Really I'm telling you you can make it on your own But that's exactly like preparing for a calisthenics competition or in the realm of sports for example running well you can obviously do that on your own But I know from experience that it's difficult to do alone because you're always possibly an excuse or yes it's simply nice being part of a community together automate and repeat these sentences That's exactly how you learn German—just like learning to run or any other sport really You just have to study and it works best in a group—like for example if you've ever been to the gym before right Maybe you've been to the gym before and I've been there too—really put in a lot of work there I do a lot of sports but I was alone at the gym and luckily I knew ow to do a workout yes but at the beginning I followed my training pla Followed through and I just trained alone trained alone but I'm very disciplined For me it's fine but I've realized yes I need this now It's a challenge and I also need motivation from others to keep me going And then I found another gym which is a mix of fitness and Cardio training and boxing—there I've truly found a family It's genuinely a place where I can train with others and stay motivated I see the others ah they're making progress doing this doing that then I can improve too and we can get better together And the best part is there are training sessions meaning I don't have to figure out wha What do I have to do now do I have to do push-ups now do I have to do squats now what exactly do I have to do No I'm so busy in my life that I don't feel like sitting down to think okay what's my training plan Also I just go straight into training and follow the instructions I simply follow what needs to be done The others do it and that's how it works—I've become as fit as I've ever been and that's exactly how language learning works with us at the Language Learning Lounge It's a training session you have a training plan and you just show up whenever you have time—no need to wonder what you should learn next No we do it our team does it for you and you follow along Simple yes what we say and you repeat these words in small groups and at the end every hour you've truly learned these words and that's what we do whe If you'd like to join in feel free to become part of the community yes in Germa Join in yes and I just wanted to revisit the topic of flashcard learning—it works Yes flashcards work but you have to keep repeating them repeating them Absolutely and for example you could create gap-fill exercises such as instead of always writing the translation saying yes this is German and now it is Take full sentences instead of isolated words whether French or English just blanks like dreams about I dream I dream about no idea from a school don't know me then blank blank from a school then me and and if you repeat these words ah yes for example I dream of this school also that means instead of me dreaming about writing about this school with the translation o French or English just write I Blank Blank for two blanks because I dream of so those are two words I blank blank of this school for example and is definitely more effective than using these flashcards in isolation Flashcards isolate these words for learning Exactly that's what I wanted to tell you today my Take words If you want to learn with me you're welcome to do so there are A link in the video description and otherwise see you again next week—yes have a productive week Ciao