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how to Build your VocaBulary

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your language acquisition


IntroductIon

6 Methods of learning vocabularyProven or guesswork?Prove it to yourself!

You need to know thIs

Finding the right approachThe inconvenient truthVocabulary is key

havIng the rIght tools

Your learning method is critical

vocaB Method 1: rehearsal

vocaB Method 2: context

vocaB Method 3: dIscoverY learnIng

Experience the eureka moment!Creating discovery learning

vocaB Method 4: the kloo® coMBo sYsteM

KLOO blends methods to build vocabularyPlay and learn a language 1000% fasterThe Learning begins as soon as you start How to make your own KLOO cards for FREE

vocaB Method 5: the keYword Method

vocaB Method 6: the MeMorY palace Method

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Prove it to yourself - a mind experimentA prize for you - if you can do this!Putting words in contextWhy does this work?

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Other powerful language learning principles

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Further information

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welcomeCongratulations on downloading this free re-port on how to rapidly build vocabulary and welcome to a community that wants to learn (or teach) a language – but wants to do it the smart way!

Language is our passion, a force for good in so many ways, so we like to support language learners in their quest to learn a language.

6 methods of learning vocabularyIn this report, we assess 6 different approaches to acquiring foreign vocabulary. The approach you use will make a huge impact on your rate of learning. As you will see, the method you use is more important than your natural lan-guage ability.

Proven or guesswork?What we share in this download is complete-ly researched, sourced and proven. We help you to cut through the noise, marketing, hype and guesswork so you don’t need to guess any more.

We will share with you substantive research which clearly shows us what works – and what doesn’t.

Prove it to yourself!Towards the back of this report, we conduct a little, fun test, which you can try. By going through the process yourself, you will better understand how and why it works.

Then you just need to apply what you have learned and you’ll have the full force of re-search and smart thinking working for you.

introduction

You don’t need to be Einstein to learn a second language.

But it helps if you have the right tools.


finding the right approachIf you are reading this, there is a good chance you have already tried different language re-sources and have been left feeling disappoint-ed. Finding the best way to learn a foreign lan-guage is the right thing to do - but it’s not easy. Perhaps you haven’t made a purchase yet but are bewildered by the choices available.

There is a lot to be confused about! There are CDs, talking toys, talking books, text books, au-dio programs, DVDs, phrasebooks, vocabulary lists, grammar drills, software, magnetic read-ers and much, much more. The education and edutainment markets are colossal multi-billion $ industries – and they have a vested interest-ed in keeping it that way. Moreover, they have the resources and skills to mount slick market-ing campaigns – all with the aim of getting you to part with your cash and buy their product.

the inconvenient truthThe truth is that all of these language products cannot be equally effective. Indeed, research shows that many famous products hardly work at all. You can avoid the costly error of purchasing a dud by continuing to read this re-port.

“Parents spend millions of dollars every year on classes, computer programs, and toys, all of which promise to help children learn a second language. But many of their best efforts (and in-vestments) end in disappointment.”

- the Bilingual edge, 2007, kendall king & alison Mackey

Vocabulary is key

The bedrock of learning a language is vocab-ulary. Without it your ability to communicate is limited to pointing and hand gestures (and we can even get the meanings of those wrong!) So investing a little time in finding the best way to build vocabulary is worth its weight in gold…so let’s do that.

you need to know thiS

The first steps in language learning are crucial


your learning method is criticalLearning a foreign language depends much more on the tools you use than your innate “language ability”. Use the wrong tools and you start believing that you don’t have the neces-sary talent to learn a language (when you ab-solutely do).

Conversely, use the right tools and systems and your natural language ability will shine.

Think of a golfer trying to play golf with a crick-et bat. Or a tennis player trying to play tennis with a football. With the wrong tools the innate skills of the player are completely nullified. That’s how important the right tools are for you in learning a language. You have innate abili-ty (I am presuming here that you are fluent in at least one language!). We, therefore, need to equip you with the right way to learn and the right resources.

haVinG the riGht toolS

Success in language learning depends on the tools you use


dr. h. douglas Brown in his classic language acquisition book “Principles of Language Learning and Teaching” states that if you learn through lists you are likely to suffer from “systematic Forgetting” – a scary thought which roughly means “in one ear and out the other”. Drawing on extensive research he summarizes as follows:“In a meaningful process like second language learning, mindless repetition, imitation and other rote practices in the language classroom have no place. Too many languages are filled with rote and practice that centres on surface forms. Most cognitive psychologists agree that the frequency of stimuli and the number of times spent practicing a form are not highly important in learning an item.”

- principles of language learning and teaching, pearson longman, 2006, 5th edition

dr. h. douglas Brown

Build vocabulary the no 1 way? no way!Building vocabulary has always been an ordeal for many learners. Long lists of words...trying to somehow memorize them with brute force and repetition...but your mind starts swimming with all the information and you start to tire.... then you test yourself and find that the new informa-tion just won’t stick...so you repeat the process. You become more tired and before long, your mind starts to shut down. You feel deflated, demotivated and just plain exhausted.

So much effort and so little reward.

Rote learning from lists is still the No 1 method for learning vocabulary and, believe it or not, it is the absolute worst. Put simply our brains are not computers into which we can pour random data. And even if we do manage to cram it in through attrition, it sits in the short term memo-ry and will soon be forgotten.

Having condemned the number 1 method for building vocabulary as a system that “has no place” in language learning, the question remains - what should we use?

VocaB method 1: rehearSal

Treating words like data is overwhelming

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dr Brown again draws his conclusion from extensive research:“What is important is meaningfulness. It appears that contextualized, appropriate, meaningful communication in the second language seems to be: THE BEST POSSIBLE PRACTICE THE LEARNER OF A SECOND LANGUAGE COULD ENGAGE IN.”

- principles of language learning and teaching, longman pearson, 2005, 5th edition

dr. h. douglas Brown

making it meaningful – putting words into contextI was struck by the news of a young man who is fluent in 11 languages. There is a lovely piece on him on the BBC where he does in fact speak in all 11 languages. It is significant that he said only one thing about what makes it easier for him to learn new languages and I wrote it down word for word. He stated:

“The easiest way to learn is from context. I remember what I see or hear more easily than words written in a list”

There are strong scientific reasons for this phenomenon. Rote learning involves the mental storage of information that is random and unconnected with other bits of information. Its insular nature means it is unlikely to be retained – a bit like someone asking you to remember a random telephone number while they dial it. You hold on to the information to complete the task in hand. Within minutes, however, the information starts to slip away like grains of sand through your fingers.

Meaningful learning, on the other hand means connecting new information with information that is already known. This creates what is called a cognitive structure – in essence, the new information is “hooked” in by the known information. And the more hooks there are, the more “anchored” the new information becomes.

VocaB method 2: context

Context is a process that hooks the new vocabulary into your mind and on its own will dramatically improve your word retention. But there is something else too.

Context provides a cognitive structure to hook new words into the long-term memory

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experience the eureka moment!I am pretty sure that none of us had parents who, when we were very young, gave us lists of words to learn by next week. What generally happened is that we would point at something that we wanted to know the name of, such as a dog, and our parents said “Dog” and we repeated “Dog”. This form of learning is called Discovery Learning. It is the natural way we learned new words when we were small and is the way our brains are hot wired to learn vocabulary.

Discovery Learning is essentially learning what we want to know, when we want to know it. It creates a “Ah ha!” moment or a “Eureka!” mo-ment. In essence, when we discover something of importance to us, at that moment, our brains become hugely receptive - like sponges...and because it is deemed important the informa-tion is valued and locked into the long term memory.

We have all felt it, perhaps when trying to crack a crossword problem or trying to recall some-one’s name and it’s extremely powerful. But how can we harness it?

creating discovery learningThe power of Discovery Learning is widely ac-cepted as being a strong contributor to the way we learned our first language. The problem is in replicating Discovery Learning for the learner in a classroom setting.

How do you create a scenario where the learn-er feels an urge to learn useful foreign vocabu-lary – and then, by chance, discovers it?

It is difficult – but not impossible.

VocaB method 3: diScoVery learninG

Harness Eureka moments to acquire vocabulary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_learning


learning 1000% faster by combining the two most powerful methods of vocabulary buildingWhen you combine the power of Discovery Learning with placing words in context and then wrap the whole experience inside a game, amazing things happen.

Picking up words becomes automatic and al-most effortless.

A Spanish Teacher completing a Case Study for the impact of KLOO in her classroom wrote this:

“After playing two or three times with the same deck students have almost magically learned all the vocabulary, not only to write and read each word correctly but also to pronounce it right.” - veronica Fernandez sobejano, spanish teacher, Independent case study

kloo Is the onlY sYsteM that Incorpo-rates contextual learnIng coMBIned wIth dIscoverY learnIng.

KLOO was created by myself (an award win-ning games designer) out of frustration with how slowly my own children were learning new words in Italian. All of the language resources I had bought for them were ineffective and they didn’t enjoy them anyway.

To build KLOO, I looked at the underlying prin-ciples of language learning and then embed-ded them into the game. At first, we played with just scraps of paper around the kitchen table, but already I could sense that something pow-erful was happening. They were learning fast, making sentences and having fun!

Those scraps of paper have become KLOO. Players will learn how to make sentences in foreign sentences in seconds and discover the meanings of words as they play. The results of-ten astonish those who play. In a game, play-ers will typically learn 15 - 30 words - without working or studying. And often it’s not until they play again that they realise they have ef-fortlessly picked up vocabulary and know how to immediately make sentences with them.

VocaB method 4: the kloo® comBo SyStem

Players effortlessly learn new words by playing


Play and learn a language 1000% fasterhow effective is it? In a single game of 25 minutes a typical player (child or adult), will learn 15 – 30 words without ever feeling they are studying or working. It comes naturally. Many teachers will tell you how challenging it is to motivate some students to learn 20 words by next week or even next month through usual vocabulary building techniques.

the learning begins as soon as you startWithin minutes of starting, players are whizzing around the game board, able to make thousands of possible sentences, speaking out loud, learning words and having fun! For many language learners KLOO is not just a game - it’s a game changer. To see how easy (super easy) it is to make sentences watch this video here.


This performance gap is reinforced by Milton and Meara’s Research which shows the average accumulation of vocabulary by British children from 5 years to their GCSE exams (typically at 15 / 16 years old). It shows that by the time of the exam vocabulary is on average 850 words. It is a mainly uniform progression of 170 words a year or 15 words a month. On the basis that a typical child has 60 hours of lessons a year, children are learning at the rate of 3 words an hour. It is quite normal for children (and adults) to learn 15 - 25 words in a half hour game of KLOO. Watch this short video to see how.

Players of KLOO learn 30 words an hour, 1000% faster. In just six hours, players can learn what the average teenage student learns in a year.

research: milton and meara

KLOO combines context with Discovery Learning

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how to make your own kloo cards for freeYou can buy ranges of KLOO cards at www.mflgames.com. You can also make your own KLOO cards absolutely FREE and benefit from the Contextual and Discovery Learning.

Go here the get started: www.kloogame.com/make-your-own

Have fun!


DISCOVERY LEARNING + CONTEXT = THE KLOO SYSTEM

www.mflgames.comhttp://kloogame.com/make-your-own


a visualisation methodThis method uses the power of visualisation and word substitution to embed new words.

For instance, the Italian word for bee is APE pronounced AH-PEH.

Now imagine a HAPPY BEE. Really imagine the picture. The smile on the bee’s face as he buzz-es from flower to flower….an ecstatically HAPPY BEE. Hold that image for 10 seconds. The next time you want to use the word for bee in Italian, you’ll find you are much more likely to recall it by remembering the HAPPY BEE.

The Spanish word for chicken is pollo pro-nounced POHL-LOH. Now imagine a chicken shocking everyone by playing polo! Imagine it being on a horse and swinging a polo stick. Hold the image. You’ll remember it!

pros

This is a great method which I have used my-self. Studies suggest that this approach can double your word retention. It is also quick to learn as a technique.

cons

There are limits to how many words can be usefully learned this way. It is in fact tough to find images that will work for most words.

suggestIon

Use this as an adjunct to other methods. If you see a word that you want to learn – and can associate an English word with it easily – then use it.

VocaB method 5: the keyword method

A study by I-Ju Chen and Hui-Jing, Hsiao draws on extensive research to look at the impact of this method.

A HAPPY BEE!

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a famous memory techniqueThis method utilises the Memory Palace (some-times called the Loci) technique used by world memory champions! It is an extremely power-ful memory technique but it has its limitations when it comes to foreign language acquisition.

With the Memory Palace, you memorise a room or routine (such as your morning routine before leaving the house) and place items you want to remember in familiar locations. For instance, let’s say you want to remember some items for your shopping list: a cucumber, salt, peas, an onion and spaghetti. Now imagine walking into your bathroom and walking over peas as you walk to the sink. When you get to the sink you try to turn on the tap but you find an onion bal-ancing on it. You start to brush your teeth and you find the water is extremely salty. You then look into the sink and find spaghetti floating all around it. Finally you reach for the soap but find a cucumber on the soap dish. It’s a crazy scene but that’s why it works – it’s using visualisation.

Unfortunately, for foreign words, it doesn’t work as effectively: because you don’t have a mental image of the word you are placing. Try placing a “sabroso” in your palace? A sabroso? Uh? (It means tasty in Spanish). If you cannot visualise what you are placing – the technique fails.

pros

A very powerful technique for general mem-orising. In fact, the most powerful method known to humankind. You can find out more at www.memocamp.com.

cons

This system relies on building a mental image – and as, by definition, you aren’t familiar with the word – it fails for foreign language. Not that useful.

VocaB method 6: the memory Palace method

THE MEMORY PALACE AS USED BY SHERLOCK HOLMES!

www.memocamp.com


acrasial: ill-regulated; ill-tempered

adimpleate: to fill up

aeipathy: continued passion; an unyielding disease

affuage: right to cut wood in a forest for family fire

agonarch: judge of a contest or activity

alabandical: barbarous; stupefied from drink

albedineity: whiteness

alogotrophy: excessive nutrition of part of body resulting in deformity

amandation: act of sending away or dismissing

antipelargy: mutual kindness; love and care of children for their parents

amarulence: bitterness; spite

aporrhoea: a bodily emanation; an effluvium

archiloquy: first part of a speech

aretaloger: braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments

ascoliasm: boys’ game of beating each other with gloves or leather while hopping

assectation: act of following after something else

autexousious: exercising or possessing free will

auturgy: self-action; independent activity

Brabeum: reward or prize

Bromography: a treatise on food

ProVe it to yourSelf - a mind exPerimentHere are 20 obscure English words all beginning with A or B. If I ask you to learn them – you proba-bly won’t (what’s your incentive?). And if you tried to, you’ll probably struggle to retain the meaning of all these words for long. As research has proven, random lists of unconnected information works against the grain of the way our brains work.

HOWEVER, turn over the page where a PRIZE AWAITS YOU!

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a PriZe for you - if you can do this!Indulge me and imagine that you need to quickly find an obscure word which means “a judge of a contest” …and if you do, you will win an important game! Take a second to build that scenario in your mind.

What is the word which means “a judge of a contest” to win the game? Are you feeling the urge to know?

You can find it in the list on the previous page. Go and find it and then come back here!

If you played along with our little game and looked for it – you will have experienced Discovery Learning (as opposed to learning by rote). You wanted information – because you were being re-warded to find it – and then you found it. Ah ha! Discovery Learning.

Now turn overleaf.

You be the judge!

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Putting words into contextNow imagine that having discovered your new word, agonarch, you immediately use it in a sentence. This process provides new cognitive hooks to hold this new word in your long term memory. So, let’s say we created this sentence:

“We desperately need to find an agonarch for our baking contest.”

Now say it out loud.

If you played along, you’ll remember agonarch means judge of a contest. If you didn’t then probably not - because you haven’t used these two powerful drivers of vocabulary building.

why does this work?Without getting too scientific, this methodology simulates the same system we used to learn our first language.

We want to find a word to be able to express ourselves.

We discover it.

We use it in context.

This is the way our brains our built to retain words. Any wonder then that it’s the most ef-fective?

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These powerful learning methods turn our brains into word sponges


other Powerful lanGuaGe learninG PrinciPleS

KLOO® uses the proven principles of language learning and embedded them in a game system. These principles of language learning are independently corroborated by language experts. As dis-cussed, it means you can learn how to speak Spanish, French or Italian just by playing. There is no need to work, write or study leaving you to have fun while learning fast.

• The best way to learn a language is through DISCOVERY LEARNING. This is the natural way we learned our first language. Discovery Learning involves discovering what you want to know, when you want to know it. Some sci-entists call this the “Aha! Moment” or “Eureka Moment”. This is how our brains are hot-wired to learn a language.

• CONTEXT is crucial. By putting words into context you give your new vocabulary mean-ing. Meaningfulness is a central plank for get-ting words into your LONG TERM MEMORY. The best technique for learning words is to seek the meaning of a word and then use it in a sentence. Using it straight away helps to lock it in.

• FUN is a hugely important factor but often overlooked. Many people give up learning a language because it becomes a chore. How-ever, if you enjoy it, you do it more. The more you do it, the more you learn. KLOO® is defi-nitely FUN.

• REAL PEOPLE means speaking out loud with real people as opposed to learning from screens or audio devices. We learned our first language by talking with other people and all research shows this is the best way. Speaking with others will massively reduce your learning time.

• GENERATIVE means learning to use words as building blocks to make sentences rather than by rote. If you learn how to use words in sen-tences you rapidly build up the number of ways you can express yourself. With just one deck of KLOO® you can make nearly 3 million sen-tences.

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Language can be fun!


further information

These blog articles are useful pointers with regards to resources and the best ways to learn a language:

Best way to learn a language

Finding the best MFL resources

What the language industry doesn’t want you to know

My top 3 language resources

Teachers case studies on best MFL resources

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https://languagepie.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/best-ways-to-learn-a-foreign-language-the-language-triangle/https://languagepie.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/finding-the-best-mfl-resources-sorting-the-wheat-from-the-chaff/https://languagepie.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/language-mfl-resources-review/https://languagepie.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/my-top-3-language-learning-resources-they-worked-for-me/https://languagepie.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/mfl-case-studies-show-dramatic-impact-in-classroom/


Canadian Teenagers learning French, Canada

Hult International Business School Students learning Spanish, London Pub


l e a r n f a S t – h a V e f u n !

US Navy personnel learning Spanish, in Spain

Adult tutor group learning French, England


Trafalgar Primary School, Richmond, London

An award winning game enjoyed by families


I love this game. My Spanish students beg to play it.

debbie pinak, canadian MFl teacher

My son has picked up more vocabulary than he had in a year of lessons at school.

suzanne t, uk

Works well where other methods don’t.

the Independent

I have been using it across the ability range and EVERYONE enjoyed it.

anouk, B, language teacher, uk

I say to my students, “What shall we do? 9 times out of 10, the answer is KLOO!!

lindsay dow, language teacher, uk

It’s absolutely brilliant! As a teacher, this game is the best language game ever!”

anne-sophie, alliance Francaise, French teacher

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