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The BEST free apps for language FLUENCY in 2021! (+ Free PDF & Quiz) - YouTube
Channel: English with Lucy
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hello everyone and welcome back to
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english with lucy today i am going to
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talk to you about the best apps and
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websites for learning english and
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they're not going to be
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your average i'm not going to recommend
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the normal duolinguo and babble and all
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of that
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these are more specific things to help
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you work on individual skills skills
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like pronunciation
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writing feedback
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speaking
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etc as always there is a free pdf that
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goes with this lesson it contains the
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full transcript along with keywords and
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their definitions as well so you can use
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this for listening practice to how meta
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if you'd like to download the pdf all
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you've got to do is click on the link in
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the description box you enter your name
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and your email address you sign up to my
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mailing list and the pdf comes directly
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to your inbox and then every week after
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that you automatically receive my pdfs
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and all of my news course updates and
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offers let's get started with app number
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one and this one is really rather
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special it's incredibly unique it is
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something that i think will help almost
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anyone who is learning a language now
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this app is free and it sponsored this
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segment of today's video it's called hi
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native and oh my word it's wonderful
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it's such an incredible tool for
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learners of virtually any language in my
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experience one of the most frustrating
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parts of learning a new language is the
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constant stream of doubts and questions
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going round and round in my own head
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especially when you're in an earlier
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stage there are just so many questions
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and when you get to that more advanced
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stage the questions you have are so
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niche and you need a native speaker or a
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teacher to answer them why is this like
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that why don't you say it like that will
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i sound natural if i say it like this i
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needed a teacher or a native speaker
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around me 24 7 to be able to ask them
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all of these constant doubts and
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questions
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and obviously for 99.99 of us having a
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teacher around 24 7
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is pretty much impossible unless you're
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lucky enough to be married to one i
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guess this is especially true if you're
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learning a really popular language like
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english because there are lots of other
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people in the same situation who also
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want a lot of attention the high native
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app provides the solution here on their
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free app you can ask any question about
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language and native speakers will answer
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you they support questions for over 113
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languages you can sign up and take
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advantage of this free app on android
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ios or on desktop you enter your own
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native language and the language that
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you're learning you can see right here
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how many questions have been asked and
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they are receiving a lot of answers as
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well from native speakers it's so
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valuable because you're not just
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learning textbook english you're
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learning expressions phrases and slang
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terms that are genuinely used by native
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speakers every day you enter your
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language and the language that you're
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learning type in your email create a
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username and a password and you're ready
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now when you go to ask a question you
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choose a question template you can use
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all of the templates for free apart from
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does this sound natural and foreign
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language diary the rest are free it's so
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easy to do even beginners can ask
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questions easily using these templates
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let's give it a go so let's ask a what's
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the difference one
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what is the difference
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between
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affect
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and
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effect i've waited just a short while
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and look at all of the responses i
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really like the premium feature does
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this sound natural because you can get
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your writing corrected by a native
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speaker so let me write an example
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sentence like this one the children
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are being very
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misbehaving
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today
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slightly wrong there let's see what the
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native speakers do to correct my writing
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exactly perfect correction
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what a fantastic resource the does this
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sound natural feature is only available
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to premium users however you can upgrade
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your account for free for seven days so
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i really recommend you do that one more
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feature that i really really appreciate
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is that there is no private messaging
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feature so this cannot be used as a
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dating site which sadly is a big worry
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for a lot of people who use
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language exchange services users can
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only communicate with each other through
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questions and answers so it feels very
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safe you can study the languages in
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comfort and safety no one's using it for
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dating if you'd like to download high
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native and try it for yourself for free
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then you can get it on ios android and
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desktop i've left all of the links down
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below in the description box let's move
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on to app number two and this one is an
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oldie but a goodie it is google docs
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slash
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drive and this is the most wonderful
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language correction
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and organization tool i used to teach
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group classes and i would always make my
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students complete their homework on a
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google shared document this is so that i
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could make tweets and my students could
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see where i had made corrections
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view what i had changed the edits i'd
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made and see my comments that i'd made
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on them as well it also meant that my
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students had neat files a nice
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organization system of all of their
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homework and their essays that they'd
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done throughout the years so they could
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see their progress and they could use it
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they could use the corrections most
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importantly as a revision tool so if an
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exam was coming up they could go through
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all of their past mistakes to make sure
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that they don't repeat them if your
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teacher is still making you handwrite
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essays and store them in a folder
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talk to them it's time to modernize
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alternatively if you find someone who's
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willing to correct your work ask them to
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do it on google docs so that you have
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this amazing resource when i was a
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student learning spanish i never kept
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hold of my feedback and my essays they
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were on pieces of paper and i'd put them
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in my bag and i'd lose them i was
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terrible at that when i went to
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university and started learning italian
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i was really really organized and i
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still have these folders and files month
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by month year by year of all of my work
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i promise you this will be your best
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revision resource next let's talk about
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one of my favorite
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favorite dictionaries as a teacher and a
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language learner i can promise you this
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is one of the best of the best i've been
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using it for well i've been teaching on
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youtube for nearly six years and i've
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used it since the very beginning it is
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oxford learners dictionary
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and the reason i love it so much is
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because they have the most fantastic
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ipa transcriptions some will offer lots
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of different accents but they won't
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provide the transcription oxford
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learner's dictionary provides everything
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you need you can listen to the audio in
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standard american english standard
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british english as well as many other
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accents on some words as well and the
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written transcription too it is
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beautiful it's a dictionary that's
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designed for learners in mind so the
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definitions are really clear and
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understandable they have the word origin
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on most words as well which is really
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interesting as well as antonyms and
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synonyms it's always really really good
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to look at the synonyms so you can
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further expand your vocabulary and
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something that i think is absolutely
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fantastic
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as a massive advocate for word diaries
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you can add words to your own
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wordless the phrase word list doesn't
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sound that exciting but it gets
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gets me going every time you search a
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word you can add it to your word list it
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only takes a click and then at the end
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of the year or before an exam you have a
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list of everything that you've had to
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research
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right there for you with the
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pronunciation and the definition and the
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synonym and the origin oh it's just
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gorgeous it's the perfect vocab
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acquisition tool and pronunciation tool
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as well
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it just ticks so many boxes i love it
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there are lots of other dictionaries out
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there but this one is my favorite let's
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move on to website number four
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this is called
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forvo it's a pronunciation website and
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you search for any word in a lot of
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languages it's got a lot of languages
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but obviously we're focusing on english
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on this channel english with lucy slight
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hint you search for any word let's
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search for the word old for example then
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you have lots of examples of people from
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different parts of the world you have a
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male from the united states
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old
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perfect you have a female from the
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united states old
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uh we have someone from australia
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old
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canada
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yes we have someone from the uk
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so basically you can compare how words
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are pronounced differently in different
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countries and in different accents and
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you can also contribute audio recordings
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to your own language as well i might
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secretly do a few for this website in
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return it's really really cool if you
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don't want to rely on phonetic
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transcriptions all the time you want to
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hear how a word is actually pronounced
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or you want to compare
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two different countries pronunciations
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whoever came up with that idea is a
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genius let's move on to number five it
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is quizlet
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such a good app perfect for teachers and
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students alike if you want to learn lots
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and lots of vocabulary but you don't
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know where to start this is the perfect
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place for you on this app and website
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you can create flashcards flashcards
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have been used for years and yet decades
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centuries
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to learn languages it's a no-brainer
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it's a perfect tool but wonderfully you
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can also search through
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other flashcard sets made by other
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students or other teachers as well they
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make them public you can search for
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anything you can search for politics
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vocabulary you could search for
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gardening vocabulary whatever you like
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if you're studying to be a doctor you
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could study medical vocabulary there is
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so much there they also have some games
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too which are really fun i like to
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gamify the learning process it's also
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really nice when you create a set that
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you're really really proud of you can
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share it with other people lots of
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teachers now use it with their students
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leave them public so you can gain access
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to a lesson that you maybe wouldn't have
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access to before moving on to number six
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this is different to what i've
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recommended before i always used to
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recommend the bbc sounds app
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as a really good place for audios like
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podcasts and radio shows but there was
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one thing that i didn't like about that
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app they really didn't prioritize
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transcripts for their audio shows that
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annoys me because it's not good for
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accessibility if somebody is hard of
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hearing and i've got quite a few people
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in my life that are hard of hearing that
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cannot access podcasts and that's so sad
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because there's so much wonderful
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information in them it's also not that
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great for english learners one of the
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most amazing tools is to listen to
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something whilst you're reading it
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because your brain makes connections
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it helps you learn the pronunciation it
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helps you improve your listening it
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helps you expand your vocabulary it's
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just so good well
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spotify has now overtaken bbc sounds as
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my favorite audio app for learning
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english they have recently started
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adding transcripts to their shows at the
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moment it is only their original and
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exclusive shows so the ones that are
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native to them i guess there aren't that
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many available at the moment but those
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that are have the transcripts and it's
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an amazing learning opportunity i also
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heard that they were considering
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expanding this to the rest of their
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shows as well so i really really hope
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they do that if you're looking for a new
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podcast make sure it's one of spotify's
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original or exclusive ones and hopefully
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you can access their transcript
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the last app that i have for you is
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google translate and no i am not a
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teacher recommending that you just
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translate all of your essays on google i
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remember
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marking essays and it being very very
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clear who had just put their essay in
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their own language into google translate
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because sometimes they'd make spelling
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mistakes
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and their misspelt
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word in spanish would be in the middle
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of their english essay and it would be
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very very obvious but that's fine i mean
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they may have been short on time uh the
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reason i'm recommending google translate
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is because of the amazing google lens
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feature
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where you can use your camera to
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translate things in real time and this
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is perfect if you're out and about and
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you want to quickly
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see something but you don't have time to
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type it all up for example if i'm in a
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foreign restaurant and their menu is in
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chinese or something i can just hover it
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over this is just a fun one it's not
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necessarily an english learning tool but
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it's a really useful
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life tool i think and it's something i
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was just blown away by when i first saw
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it i just couldn't believe that we're
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finally living in the future right that
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is it for today's lesson i hope you
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enjoyed it i hope you learned something
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don't forget to check out the sponsor of
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today's video hi native
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all of the links to download the app are
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in the description box i highly highly
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recommend it don't forget to download
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the free pdf that goes with this lesson
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all you've got to do is click on the
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link in the description box enter your
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name and your email address the pdf will
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come directly to your inbox and then
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every week afterwards you'll
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automatically receive my lesson pdfs
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along with all of my news course updates
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and offers don't forget to connect with
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me on all of my social media i've got my
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instagram lucy and my website
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englishwithlucy.co.uk where i've got an
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awesome pronunciation tool maybe i
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should have included this in the list
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but it seemed a bit too shaby-offy
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on this tool you can click on a phoneme
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and hear me pronounce the phoneme or a
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word that contains that phoneme it's
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really cool it's fun to use
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word
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no
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i also have my personal channel where i
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vlog my life here in the english
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countryside and all of the vlogs are
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fully subtitled so you can use them for
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listening practice and for learning more
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vocabulary i will see you soon for
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another lesson
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