책에서 읽은 것과 영어 표현 유지하는 방법 (영어+한국어) How to retain what you read

Hello everyone. It's Josh from splashenglish.com I'm Japanese American, currently living in Korea, and I teach English. And yes, I also do speak some Japanese. On my YouTube channel, I usually teach English conversation skills. I teach pronunciation, intonation, and accent. But today I'm going to share my story in English for your listening practice. So this is today's topic. How to retain what you read. How to retain what you read. Retain means keep. Retain and keep. So today I want to talk about the tricks and techniques that I use to read more books and retain more information. First, let's talk about how we retain information. How we notice things, how we remember things. Our brain notices things that are new, that are surprising. So it's really useful to associate your knowledge with your experience or emotion. For example, rather than trying to memorize a list of English words, if you can actually create your own sentences using those words and tie them to some of your personal experiences or some of the things that you have went through, then you can remember those words longer. Okay, so let's talk about books. Okay, I read about three to four books in a month. So that's maybe about, you know, 40 to 50 books a year. So when you're reading, you want to divide your reading experience into three stages. First, what you do before you read. Second, what you do while you're reading. And third, what do you do after you read? Once you get used to it, once you start doing it and make small steps and change your actions, it becomes pretty easy. Okay, so what do you do before you read a book? So for example, let's say I'm reading a non fiction, okay, nonfiction book. Okay, nonfiction. Oops, nonfiction bookie. So, and you look at the, the table of contents, right? And when you look at the table of contents, right, like before we begin to read, we look at the table of contents and then we decide, you know, and then we see, oh, you know, this part looks interesting. This part looks, you know, confusing. While you're looking at the table of contents, you want to make some guesses, okay, Oh, I think this chapter is going to be about this. And then when you actually read the book, your guesses, that might be different. So you know, sometimes like you walk back home from subway station to your house. Why was that possible? While you're walking, your brain is actually not looking at the outside scenery. Your brain is using the past memories and it process the information from the past memories and it's using that information to navigate your way home. That is why you can play a game on your phone and go home at the same time. Unless as you're walking back home, you notice something different. Maybe there's a car accident, maybe you know, there's a new building. Okay? So when the, when there's something new, then your brain notices things. Then you stop playing the game and you look up and you make sure that you know everything is okay. And then you go home. So in the same token, so you look at the table of contents and you make some guesses, you know, you make some guesses about what the book is going to be about. And you read the book and when it's different from what you expected, then you will be able to retain that information better. It's new information. And actually that's a good thing, right? And that's a good thing because if a non fiction book is regurgitating the things that you already know, you can, you know, go very quickly. You can read them very quickly. Right? And you only need to retain the information that you don't know yet. Okay? And then, so that's what you can do before you read a book. Okay, now what do you do while you're reading a book? So I use these like posted, I think we call them like index tabs. Index tabs. Posted more bookmarker. Index tabs. I go put in there maybe a highlighter and maybe a highlighter. And then so this is, I love using this because I don't want to write too much and make it messy. So you have this system you don't get. You have this like a color coded index tabs and you assign meaning to each one of these colors for fiction books. Okay, let's talk about non fiction books. Non fiction. So because I'm an English teacher, while I'm reading like, you know, fiction books, I try to, you know, mark, you know, I try to mark words and phrases that I think is useful for my students. Green tabs are the words and phrases that I really liked. Oh. Like, you know, I really like the way this person expresses this scenery. And the orange tabs indicate the words or phrases that I think are useful that I want to teach to my students. Okay, so that's for fiction. Generally, I read more nonfiction than fiction. I don't really enjoy reading fiction. The only reason I read fiction is for my students. So there are different ways to market it. So you could use the tabs like I do. Index tab. If you use a Kindle, what do you do with those passages that you highlighted or the places where you bookmark? Right. So what I do, what I do is I take those words, phrases, sentences, passages, and I either write them down or I copy and paste them to another location. So, for example, so I have this, like a box of index cards. And here I have index cards. And this is the method that I use. If I come across something that I resonated with, then I would put them here. This is very impressive. Impressive. All the. The computer graphics in that movie was impressive. Performance was impressive. I was moved, I was touched. I resonated with something. Something. So, for example, I have a quote from Aristotle and I have a bunch of quotes that I got from philosophers. And then I have these different categories when I'm feeling tired and when I don't feel like doing anything, then I just go through this very quickly. Yeah, Application, Evernote application. So once you have that information on an Evernote or the index cards where it's accessible. So that's my system, and I'm always trying to improve my system better and better. So what's your reading system? You know, what are some of the things you do while you're reading a book? Please write them and share them in the comment section below. And if you don't have a system yet, and if this video was useful, let me know which one strategy, one technique you will use starting from tomorrow. And Once again, my YouTube channel is called Splashenglish. You can also find me on Instagram. Josh Sushi. Thanks for watching this video and let's read many books, everyone.