Name: 心智圖--如何快速、輕鬆、持久地學習詞彙。 (Mind Maps - How to learn vocabulary quickly, easily, and permanently)
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Okay, so take the bus here, then, the train. Get a ticket -- hi. James, from EngVid. Ever

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tried finding a place or going to a new country, looking at the subway or transportation maps

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to get from one place to another? If you look at those things, they're called maps, right?

It will tell you what the city looks like, where you can get a bus at what time. But

basically, it tells you what something looks like, and it gives you a picture of it. And

it may not be an exact picture, but it's generally a picture you can work with. One you can go,

"Okay, I'm here, and I want to get here, and that's how I'll do it." Maps are very effective

and very efficient, right? Now, "effective" means they get the job done, and "efficient",

they do it in a quick way. Why am I talking about maps? In many of the videos I do, you'll

see what I call mind maps. I may not have called them mind maps, but that's what they

are. A "mind map" is a device or a tool that we use to help us understand something and

memorize it. I primarily -- and "primarily" means "mostly" -- use it for vocabulary, but

you could use it for grammar; you could use it for learning an entire topic in a foreign

language, and in this case, it's English. What I want to do today is explain what it

is. For those students who have a problem thinking it's different or confusing, I want

to break it down or break it into smaller parts so you can see it, understand it, and

then use it yourself in studying English. You like that? Let's go to the board.

I'm looking for Mr. E. And here he is. You are here. He's here on a map, but I don't

know where, and I want to get to there. So I'm going to use this to help me figure out

where he is. And we're going to use mind maps now to learn how to work with our English.

The first thing you have to understand about a mind map is -- think about getting engaged.

[Sings] I know. That's the theme from Star Wars, the Death Star. That's how I look at

marriage. Sorry, ladies. I'm just joking. But "engage" means to bring things together.

When we use mind maps, we use them to take all these thoughts we have in our heads which

can be very confusing, and we want to organize them and make it a nice way to follow like

a highway, right? A road you drive through. We're going to organize so you know exactly

So the mind map helps you because it takes you -- it takes what's in your head, and it

shows you, "This is what I know. This is what I understand. And I'm going to put it on a

paper so I can put it out there and know what's inside my head." And once it's outside of

my head, I can start moving it. Because sometimes, when information is in your head, it's confusing.

It just moves all around. And we want to make it nice and straight and easy to look at.

A mind map helps with that, with organization.

In a second I'm going to explain -- because this is a simple mind map -- but I'm actually

using a mind map to explain my maps. Woo! Woo! Okay. So we want to -- it helps us think

through, but it also helps us engage. Because it's my information, I'm putting it down,

I'm engaged, which means I'm part of the process, like "engagement", "part of". And I'm working

through it, okay? So you take it out of your head, put it down, and you're engaged. This

also helps with memory. And you're going to see me keep mentioning memory again and again.

Because part of what I promised is you will learn the language -- the new vocabulary when

you use this -- you can learn language and remember it permanently. Well, this is the

first part of helping with that memory -- getting it out of your head, on paper, helps you with

repetition. Looking at what you know because if you know it, it's in your memory already.

Next. So it helps you understand what you know and then organize the work. What's point 2?

Well, once you take it out and you put it on the mind map in another point, you have,

well these branches are the first part you see are the big ones: engage, key, memory,

colour. These points usually tell us what is important, what I must know about the subject

or the first thing that comes to my head. And I put that down. These are the key points

-- or in English, what's important -- that I must focus on, okay? So it makes it easy.

So instead of a book -- the EngVid book. Don't forget to get your copy of it. Remember? EngVid.

Okay. I'm joking. But it tells us what I need to really study. So I don't need to look at

the whole book. I can look at maybe the five pages or the five words I need. So this is

key points. Give me the word I need to unlock the door to my memory, right? And this helps

No. 3. This is what mind maps do. And this is what you want. It helps you get memory

-- a better memory. Think USB key. Because of the repetition of focus, we write it out.

Then, we look at the key points, okay? It helps us to focus our mind on what's important

and needed. It helps your memory because this is how your memory works, right? It starts

in the center, and then the ideas keep coming. And that's what we're doing here. And we're

not just putting any ideas down, we're putting key point, and they're going to things that

we associate. That's what helps with the memory. Here is association. "Associate", like "engage",

are the things that come together. For some people, they associate money with time. Other

people associate money with hard work. Other people associate money with love. And I'm

not buying that love, but I'm just saying with love. So association helps with our memory,

And finally, it's just fun. I don't know about you, but when I make a list of information

and just go down the page, down the page, after a while, I forget what I'm doing. It's

not fun. It's mind numbing. "Mind-numbing" means it's very boring and not interesting.

This part of the conversation is probably mind numbing to you, and it surely is to me.

Just joking. But it's fun. You get to use colour, draw, use your creative side. And

that's what a mind map does. It takes your logical side -- think through -- with your

fun side, and puts them together. Because in real life, what we engage in and what we

enjoy doing or what we focus on, the key points of life, are alive and full of colour. And

a mind map brings this to you because then it helps you with your memory. My favorite

thing to say to students is, "Do you remember the last party you were at?" And they'll say,

"Yeah." And I go, "A month ago?" "Yeah." "Were you drinking?" "Yeah." "Do you remember the

girl in the red dress?" "Yeah." Then, I ask them, the test we did last Tuesday, what was

the second question?" "I have no idea." Fun versus not fun. This is what helps you, okay?

That's why we do mind maps. And even if you hate them, you'll think, "I remember that

lesson. I hate it when he did this point here with the worm at the other end --" but you

remember it. That's all I have to do. That's my job. Your job is to think it through to

So now that we understand what this beauty is, why don't we quickly go through how to

make one. The first thing you'll notice is I have a center image. It's in the middle

of the board, not to the side. Because it's here, I can freely go anywhere. I can go up,

down, and around. When you start in a corner, you're stuck. And you're also telling your

brain, "This is how it works." It doesn't. This is a branch. A "branch" is like from

a tree. When you have a tree -- okay. Better to put a tree up here. Okay, this little line

here -- that's a branch. It connects the leaf to the tree. Okay? So when we have these branches

and they spread out, we're telling ourselves is, "I have this main thought, but like money,

sometimes money is time; it's love; it's other things. There are things that are associated.

And if I start in the center, I'm free to go any direction I want. I'm not limited."

Second: colours. Colours are life. Imagine a rose. Imagine a rose with no colour. It's

hard isn't it? Because you made it black and white, didn't you? Right? Because we always

have some kind of colour, something. Even if it's black and white. We can't just imagine

nothing. Bringing colours -- you know, black and white is nice, but look at this. This

catches your eye versus this. It's almost the same. But you look at the pictures and

the colour. That's what I mean. It brings you -- it helps you know how you think and

keeps your focus there. And when you're focused, it's easier to learn.