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Quinn when Nanjie a zine are a queen.
When Umangi a zine or man,

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these people in Beijing don't speak 
Chinese.

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Maybe I need to speak louder.
Queen [inaudible] Queen.

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When Angie a zine or

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[inaudible]

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guys,
this is Paul.

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The title of this video is why your 
phrasebook fails you.

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A lot of people buy a phrase book right 
before the start of their trip or they 

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buy a phrase book at the airport after 
they've checked in for their flight or 

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they buy their phrase book after they've
arrived at their destination.

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And quite often these people claim that 
there for his book wasn't helpful for 

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them,
but didn't help them communicate with 

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the locals.
Well of course it didn't because you 

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didn't use your phrase book to study.
You didn't use it the right way.

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So I would like to call this video 
something else.

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I like to call it why you fail your 
phrase book your phrasebook had high 

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hopes.
Your phrase book really wanted to be 

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your sidekick and wanted to help you 
out.

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Had wanted to be a tool that you used.
It wanted you to take the lead.

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So it could do that.
It's best to help you.

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But unfortunately you let you a phrase 
book down.

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You didn't take the lead,
you tried to give the lead over to the 

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phrase book,
expect it to do everything for you.

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And I have news for you.
Unfortunately,

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phrase books are not human.
They can't take the lead,

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they can't communicate for you.
They're just a tool.

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So you need to use them the right way.

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Basically,
if you use your phrase book,

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uh,
to pull phrases out on the fly,

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just to look things up when you're going
about your,

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your trip,
like you're shopping and you need to 

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look something up so you,
you look in the shopping section and 

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find a phrase that suitable for what you
need.

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Um,
basically it's going to fail you.

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It's not going to work like that.
You really need to do this.

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You need to use your phrase book as a 
tool to study and learn some of the 

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language.
If you do that,

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then you're going to have a much better 
experience with it.

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So how can you make your phrase but 
useful as a tool for studying?

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Well,
the first thing you need to do when you 

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start learning a new language,
even with a phrase book,

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just for travel purposes,
you need to get the phonology down.

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You need to learn the sounds of the 
language,

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how to understand them,
but how to pronounce them.

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That's,
that's point blank.

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The number one thing you need to do 
because if you don't,

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nobody's going to understand you and 
you're not going to be able to 

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understand them.
It depends on the language to some 

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extent.
Like,

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uh,
some languages have quite simple 

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phonological systems,
but if you're learning a language with 

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tones or something,
something like that,

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that's new to you and you don't put in 
the time to learn that first.

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And if you just read the phrase out of 
the phrase book,

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it's not gonna come out the way people 
understand it will just sound like 

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jibberish.
Right?

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So you need to get the phonology down.
You can do that before your trip,

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hopefully.
Um,

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get on the Internet.
Look for some examples of the 

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pronunciation.

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Um,
take a lesson or two if you can like get

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even on Skype,
get a teacher from I talky and uh,

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take some skype lessons.
They'll help you with the pronunciation.

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And I've tried to get that down.
Or once you arrive at your destination,

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talk to a local,
get some help from them.

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But the point is you need to learn what 
those sounds are,

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how to produce them,
practice a bit and get used to that.

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So that's the first thing.
The next thing is to learn the basic 

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sentence patterns of the language.
Now for his books are great because they

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have tons of examples of basic sentence 
patterns right now.

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So you can just read through them and 
you can get a sense for how to build 

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simple sentences.
Some people are like me,

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they're kind of inductive learners.
They like to just look at the examples 

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that figure it out,
look at the examples and we think,

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hm,
this must be the subject.

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This must be the object,
this must be the bourbon.

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We like to figure it out from examples 
and compare different examples and see 

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what goes where and learn how to piece 
together sentences.

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So if you're an inductive learner like 
that,

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then you can just flip through it,
look at similar sentences and try to 

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figure out what parts mean,
what,

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learn how to build the sentences 
yourself.

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Some people are not like that.
They're more productive learners.

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They like to have the rule first,
they'd like to know the grammar rule,

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and then they can look at the examples 
in that makes sense to them because they

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already know the rule,
right?

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Some people are more like that,
so if you'd like that,

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no problem.
Because most phrase books have a pretty 

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good grammar section.
It's short usually,

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but it gives you the basics.
Just the basic enough explanation to 

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understand the examples,
to read that.

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Then flip through the book,
find examples and try to match them up 

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with the rules and see how they make 
sense to you.

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So get the sentence structure down.
That's the second thing.

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The third thing,
a third thing is vocab.

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Get some vocabulary,
right?

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Phrase books are good because they have 
every day vocabulary.

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It's you'd stuff that's useful in 
regular daily life situations and you 

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can look up different kinds of topics.
Uh,

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phrase books are usually arranged by 
topic or subject,

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right?
So there's a section on maybe like going

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out and partying,
that's like one section.

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So some of the phrases might be like how
to order a drink or how to talk to a new

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person in the bar or something.
Then there might be a section on going 

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to the hospital if you're someone with 
an illness,

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right?
And you can look up that section.

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So whatever vocabulary you might need in
Europe,

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kind of travel or um,
for your own lifestyle or whatever,

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then you can look up that vocab and you 
can learn it.

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So the way I like to learn vocabulary is
using,

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well,
it's one way,

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it's just kind of a shortcut method,
I guess you can put it into a chunky 

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monkey is a flashcard system.
Um,

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it's this flashcard application for your
smart phone or also on the computer.

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You can get it for free.
It's free on Android,

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on,
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on Ios.
You've got to pay some money for it,

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but it's worth it.
It's awesome.

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So you can build up a basic vocabulary,
load those words into a Hanky and enjoy 

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yourself on them.
So words or phrases or even full 

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sentences if you are getting to that 
point,

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load them in and then drill yourself on 
those vocab.

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So you can do that one of the plan.
You can do that whenever you've got free

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time,
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on keys.
Awesome.

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So you can just look through the phrase 
book based on topic,

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on based on just what everyday words you
think you will need a little demand.

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Study them.
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so that's the three things.
Get the phonology down,

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get a sense for the basic sentence 
structure,

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get some basic vocabulary.
And once you have those things,

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then now you've used the phrase book 
well at,

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and now you're in a good position to 
look stuff up.

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If you need something on the fly,
if you try to look stuff up on the fly 

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without having any basic understanding 
of the language yet,

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then you're not going to understand 
their response,

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even if they understood you.
So you've got to do some studying.

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Use it as a tool to learn,
not just as some kind of little,

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a magic,
a magic toy that's going to speak for 

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you and get the job done for you.
Now you've got to put in the effort 

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yourself,
and that's the fun of it.

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That's what makes communicating fun.
That's where it makes learning a 

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language fun.
So do it yourself.

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Don't expect the phrase book to do it 
for you.

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All right?
That's the basic message later,

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we just edit that part out so.