32- Double Your English-learning Power with a Great Study Tip
Lindsay: This is an All Ears English Podcast, Episode 32: Wisdom Wednesday.
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Gabby: Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, where you'll finally get real, native English conversation. Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the ‘English Adventurer' and Gabby Wallace, the ‘Language Angel,' coming to you from Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
In this episode, you're gonna (going to) find out how to get a 2-for-1 study experience where you'll double your language learning.
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Gabby: Hey Lindsay. What's up?
Lindsay: Hey. What's up?
Lindsay:
Gabby: Well today we have a study tip for learning a language. (Uh) and basically the idea is to change the place where you study and one place I like to go that is different from where I usually study, (like), I usually just study at home.
Oh, okay.
Gabby:
(Um), I like to go out to a café.
Lindsay:
Hmm. Okay. Yeah.
It's, it's a way that you could actually be studying English and at the same time be hearing it.
Gabby:
Yeah, yeah. So…
Lindsay:
You could eavesdrop on people.
Gabby:
You guys, (I mean), you live in the US, so when you go out to a café, (you know), you can, like you said, you can kind of eavesdrop. You'll hear English around you and you can just sit back and relax. It's not like you're rushing to do errands or other things at the same time.
Lindsay:
Right and where are some other places that people could study, so for varying the location, where else could they go?
Gabby;
Yeah.
(I mean), you could try a public library. You could go to… Lindsay:
The park maybe?
Gabby:
Yeah, if the weather is nice out.
Lindsay:
If the weather is nice.
Gabby:
Definitely. Yeah.
(Um) even a bookstore.
Lindsay:
Bookstore.
Gabby:
Mm-hm.
Lindsay:
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Yeah.
Gabby:
(Um), a university, even if you're not a university student, they often have, (you know), (like) libraries or (um) study buildings, study halls, (um), a cafeteria.
Lindsay:
The public library. Yeah.
Gabby:
Yeah.
Even (um) (you know) a restaurant (like) if you are ordering food there, you could certainly stay for a little bit and… For sure.
Gabby:
…and study.
Lindsay:
Why not?
Gabby:
Yeah.
Any, any other ideas?
Lindsay:
Hmm? Yeah.
That's pretty much it I think. That sounds like a good tip. So… Gabby:
Great.
Lindsay:
…just take in the material in a different way, at different times, in different places.
Gabby:
Yeah, yeah. Mix it up.
Lidnsay:
Yeah.
Gabby:
And your studying could be (um) just more dynamic, more interesting. And I know this worked for me pretty well when I was in Argentina, I would go to cafes and (um) study a little bit with my book, but at the same time, was hearing people speak Spanish all around me and I could pick up different phrases that people were really saying. So on one hand I had my grammar book that I was studying, but on the other hand, I could hear real, live Spanish as people speak it in Argentina today.
Lindsay:
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It's a nice way to stay motivated too.
Gabby:
Yeah.
Lindsay:
To not be too removed from the real language. Another one that I thought of is on the train. So… Gabby:
Oh. That's great.
Lindsay:
Yeah.
So…
Gabby:
On the bus. On the train.
Yeah.
In one of our earlier episodes, we talked about creating little cards for yourself to put on your keychain, so that's something that you could do and study on the train.
Gabby:
Yeah.
That's a great idea. Or listen to this podcast on the train.
Lindsay:
Of course.
Gabby:
Great.
Cool. Great tip. (Um). So yeah just try out different places and bring your podcast with you wherever you go. Yeah and we'll talk to you guys tomorrow. We have a ‘Deep Thoughts Thursday' and we're gonna (going to) share a great quote with you.
Lindsay:
Absolutely.
Both:
See you tomorrow.
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