If you're a language teacher or a language student are looking for ideas on how to develop your
students autonomy or your own autonomy and some great ideas for helping you to study languages
at home on your own you're really going to like this video I'm going to give you five
key tips and they're relevant to language learning in all different languages
I'm going to start by looking at a tool called Youglish and I'm going to show you a couple of
great ideas with Youglish this technology allows you to choose a word that you're looking for and
then find lots of examples of that word being used in context but it can also be used for
lots of other things so I'm going to show you two concrete ideas that I really like with Youglish
this is a fantastic website and it's called Youglish but the great thing is you can use
it in English but actually you can use it in lots of other languages and I use it a lot in polish
now all you need to do is write a word in that you're looking for examples of how that word
works in context and the great thing is that it works with YouTube videos so we'll find hundreds
of YouTube videos with examples of the words that you are searching for let me give you an example
if you want to use another language all you need to do is click here and choose
the language you can see all the languages that you can choose from
so let's put for example the word fragile in to Youglish and click on say it and what it's
going to do is it's going to search for loads of examples with the word fragile actually being
used in the sentence and we can see the words here below and if i start playing it now i will
see the example and then I can move on and listen to another example let me show you support our
fragile sense of self we slip into thinking now if I want to listen to another one I can just click
here and it's going to move on to another one the skeletons of corals are becoming porous
and fragile this is similar to let's say that i want to click on another one and notice that
I'm purging and actually notice that each time it highlights the word as well
it's either fragile so they'll be damaged and this was something new really like that now I'm
going to give you a second tip when working with Youglish that I really use a lot so let's try
another example in a different language so we're going to click here and we're going to change this
time to Spanish and we're just going to quickly write a word in so let's do a simple word let's do
n can daggle okay I'm going to click on say it and see if we get examples of sentences
okay so perfect let's click on another
now another little tip is that I use a lot is that often if I
find a sentence that I like and I'm going to go back to the one before
what I can do then is I can actually copy that sentence so I can actually just copy the whole
sentence click on copy and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to add this into google translate
so I'm going to jump over to google translate and I've got google translate it's just one of
the free apps that you get in google I'm going to choose Spanish and then I'm going to paste this
word in in Spanish and then I can get the English translation of that word and of course I could
have it translated into all sorts of languages I'm going to just translate it into English and
then what I can do uh is simply afterwards I can save that word in my collection of save words and
now if I want to see my saved words I just click here and I can see a huge collection of all the
sentences that I've been saving recently now I usually use this for learning polish rather than
learning Spanish but if I click here for example I can hear that sentence in Spanish
and of course then I can practice saying that word
and you can see here that I continually use this idea when I'm working with google translate and
all of these words and sentences come from YouTube videos now actually Youglish can do
a lot more than I'm just showing you here and if you scroll down you'll see that it gives you lots
more information that we can also work with now if you want to learn more about what Youglish can do
click on the video that's on the screen now it goes into Youglish in more detail but I'm going
to carry on now and give you some more tips on developing your autonomy another great tip is to
learn to use google translate but I'm going to show you something really special about google
translate now and this is the way that I use it when I'm studying polish this is a really
nice technique I use it all the time it really helps me let's say for example I've just written
in this sentence here into google translate I rent a bike and the translation here okay
now I'm gonna add that and you can see I've already done it I've added it
into my collection of words so remember I can click here at any time and just see
my collection I'm going to close that for now now let's what I'm going to do now is I'm going
to write a different sentence I'm going to say we rented a motorbike or let's say we rented
a bike so I'm using we and I'm doing it in the past sentence and I'm going to save that as well
in other words what I do is when I'm looking for a keyword that I want to learn which in this case
is to rent or rented in the past then I'll do more than one sentence so that I can hear that
word being used lots of times and it gives me the opportunity to learn it several times in different
sentences and if I click here and just let we've added that word in and let me just give you an
example so I'm just going to click away from that word just going to close that down click here
you'll see that this is what I do a lot so we rented a bike I rent a bike we rented a motorbike
I rented a car for the week and this gives me the opportunity to hear that same word lots
and lots of times and I can click and listen the position rover the positive rover the position is
and that is so powerful the fact and what I can really do with this in a minute is
I'm going to actually if I wanted to I could bring this into Quizlet now
so I could collect together all these sentences and practice them in Quizlet now if you want to
learn more about how google translate and quizlet work together which is a brilliant combination
there's a video on the screen now that you can click on and it will show you that technique but
even just having the words here as a collection is a great way of working but you can also with one
or two more button clicks put those same words into Quizlet just a really quick break from the
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and I send you a video about every five days let's get back to the video another great thing
to learn to do if you want to be more autonomous as a learner is to organize your videos on
YouTube there's something called playlists many students and teachers don't know about playlists
and they're so useful and they're the way that I organize all my learning in polish I'm going to
show you how playlists work now they're so useful for language learning let me start by first of all
showing you what playlists are if you come to your YouTube channel and look over here on the
left hand side so you've got your YouTube channel that you come on to if you come over to the left
hand side and you click here you'll even see that you have a few automatic playlists for example
any videos that you've liked but if you click show more you'll just see how much or how frequently I
use playlists and i create playlists for all sorts of things so what is a playlist a playlist is a
collection of different videos that you found on one topic that you want to save together now why
is it useful well let me give you an example in polish I'm just going to scroll down here and I've
got a great example here polish present simple all of these scents all of these videos are in
our videos about polishing the present simple and what I can do is I can play them all and often say
when I'm in the house and I'm on my own or I'm walking down the street and I want to practice
my polish and I want to hear the present simple I simply open up this playlist and play it back
so from a student's point of view it's brilliant because you can play the whole video and it will
play all of the videos in that playlist now for teachers it's a great way of collecting together
groups of videos that they like on a particular subject and you can share your playlists with your
students now I'm going to show you exactly how you make a playlist now it really is
a useful tip to know in YouTube so let me show you an example I'm going to look for some
I'm going to do shopping in English which is an example I always show but it's just a very
simple one okay and let's imagine that I come here and I don't know if you know this but you
can also filter so I'm only gonna look for fraps videos that have got subtitles uh so now I'm only
looking for videos with subtitles and perhaps also I'm going to look for videos that are only say
four minutes long or maybe 20 minutes long doesn't matter let's imagine now then I find a particular
video that I like and I want to save this video because I think wow this video is really useful
and I'm going to create a playlist of videos that are to do with shopping in English all I need to
do is to click on save I'm going to create a new playlist and I'm going to call this list
shopping in English now you can either keep this playlist private
there's really two good ways to do it do it public that means everyone can find your playlist and
that's a great idea because you can help lots of people but if not then just do it unlisted
and unlisted means that if you share the link to that playlist then people will be able to watch
it now one thing I better write the word shopping correctly so I've got it shopping in English now
I'm going to create that so I've now got one video in my playlist and in a minute we're going to look
at that video but let's imagine that a week later we find another really good video on shopping in
English that we want to save we can click again on save come to our playlist we might have to look
through you can see I've got hundreds but normally your new playlist will be at the top click on that
and that video has now been added to that particular playlist now let's imagine that it's
a few weeks later and we found another brilliant video on shopping in English that we want to save
again we come to the video let me just skip that in fact doesn't matter if I skip the
ad but I'm going to click on share I'll sorry not share apologies click on save
find the playlist and add it and now we've got three videos in that playlist now when you want to
find your playlist all you need to do is just come over here click here and you'll see them on the
left-hand side now in my case if I come down here because I've got so many if I just scroll down
um what I can do is click on show more your playlist will normally be here and I can notice
that shopping in English it's actually there but you can see all my playlists here now if I
click on that playlist I've got my free videos and I can play now that whole list all the way through
by just clicking on play all and now I can play that list and it will play the first video then
it will play the second one and then it will play the third one now if I want to share this played
this with my students well the easiest thing to do now is just to click on share and share that
link copy that link and share that playlist with my students so if I was creating a playlist of
videos that I want my students to watch then that would be the easiest way to do it if I come back
and I'll just show you one more thing about your playlist as well if you've got your videos in your
playlist and there's any that you're not happy with and you want to delete them you can just
click here and remove that particular video from your playlist now if you want to learn more about
playlists I'm going to put a video on the screen now that will go into much more detail about what
you can do with playlists because playlists are really useful and there are actually a number of
things that you can do with them another great trick is to learn to use the transcripts now
people get confused about the transcripts in YouTube there are three types and I want to
highlight the most useful transcripts for you and also give you a couple of tips on how to use them
people often misunderstand the way that transcripts work in YouTube I'm going to
try my best to explain them to you because there are three types first of all some transcripts are
actually embedded into the video that is that when the video is made the transcript is added
so there's no text that you can play around with because it's actually in the video itself
those in a way are the least useful for language learners because you can't manipulate them and
save chunks of them and copy them they're embedded into the video the second type
of transcript is where it's been automatically generated by YouTube and this is only possible
if the person that uploaded the video turned that facility on so it's actually something that
depends on whether the person that's made the video has allowed automatic generation of
the subtitles the third type is where the person that's added up the video has also added up as a
script into YouTube the translation or the the script of the actual video and these types of
transcripts are the most useful because then you can obviously work with those automatic generation
ones are also good but obviously they're often not as accurate so what we're going to do now is look
at an example with a script added and just show you some of the things that you can do with it
so the first thing is that you can find the script by simply clicking if you've got if
you know that the video's got a script in it and it's always a good idea when you search for videos
when you do a search for a video just to quickly show you that to click and then use the filters
and choose videos with subtitles because that's really going to help you to find videos that
have got subtitles I'm going to use this example because I know it works it's one that I found in
polish notice that the subtitles come up onto the screen but also if I click here I can change that
to another language so I could for example choose English and now I've got the subtitles in English
or in fact I can even auto-generate uh from this from from the video uh this is what obviously
is done by YouTube but in this case the user has uploaded both the script in English and in polish
which is fantastic now really useful to me apart from that and I normally listen to it in polish
with the subtitles in polish another really useful thing though is that you can click here
and you can open the transcript on the side now again this transcript I can and this can
be quite interesting I can have the transcript in polish here and in English here I get the choice
of all the languages that the script has has been uploaded in so I could have this in polish as well
or I could have it in English now the nice thing about this is that it's really easy to copy so
if I want to copy and maybe add that sentence into google translate I can do that now there
are many more things that you can do with YouTube and I'm going to put on the screen now a general
video about some of the best things that you can do with YouTube when it comes to language learning
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technologies that you might find really useful if you're a language learner or a language teacher
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