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500 Words a Week | Nguyen Hoang Giang (Jolie) | TEDxISHCMCAmericanAcademy


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in first grade I learned one word a week

in fifth grade I learned 10 words a week

and by 8th grade planning were to meet

was quite a challenge for me but none of

that was compared to an impossible wall

that i came upon learning 500 words in

seven days my name is Jolie and today

this is what I will be talking about it

all started five months ago when I was

going to take that as a key I was

looking for more ways to prepare myself

and I decided to download a list of

words 500 to be exact at first I thought

it would be impossible they learn all

these words in such a short amount of

time but well if I didn’t manage to

memorize all these words that would be

fantastic I got to work and the way I

learned these words was that I had lots

of free time this happens when my school

had a break it means her one and term

too and if this has happened normally

during a school year I would be in great

trouble because was old a homework and

the sport tivities well there wouldn’t

be time for me to learn all these words

the first day I tried to read and reread

every single word memorizing Wolfen

etching them into her memory at night my

mom came to my room and she kissed me on

these words so if the words I wouldn’t

get to read but other words yeah the

following days I would be study the

words that I didn’t get threat that’s

once it have lots of time to study and

here are two more have someone test you

and practice again and again the

following days I decided to use a

different tactic because I don’t like to

read every single word again and again

so boring I want to do something that I

like reading and drawing I wrote a story

and the dream story using all my

vocabulary words

well of course it came out store strange

though but that was what made me

remember all of these what you’re worth

we’re so different but still all of them

came to my mind and at night I would

stay up to your 11pm sometimes 1pm a1

a.m. and i don’t think this is a good

tactic because if you don’t have enough

sleep you want to remember what you have

learned previously that’s the city k &

smith for went out good thanks to lots

of practice and to learning these words

by myself teach yourself to do something

maybe you wants to learn a guitar or

maybe you once you learn how to speak

French all of us learn differently I

guess like I said before they are some

of us learn by listening maybe all the

people learn visually like me I like to

read so I taught myself how to learn by

reading thank you for listening me talk

today my name is Julie have a good thing [Applause]

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