Podcast Chậm Rãi - Cùng Nói Về Trường Học Nhé! | Tập 18 – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.and I think having one exam that determines what university you'll go to that sounds extremely stressful it sounds like a lot of pressure what's up everyone I'm Carter from what's up English and if you're a student in grade school or University or if you're a parent with kids in school or even if you are not in school and you just want to learn how to talk about school then this podcast will be super useful for you because we are going to talk about school and learn a ton of useful words and phrases that you can use to talk about school so first I will start this podcast with my own personal experience with School uh and then we will talk about the school system in general in Vietnam how it works after that we will talk about the differences between School in Canada and school in Vietnam like what are the differences in the school system uh what are the cultural differences like for example do we have strict testing in Canada what are the parents attitudes towards their children studying in Canada are they as strict as Vietnamese parents and do we wear uniforms different things like that and finally at the end of the podcast I will tell you one of the most important Concepts to learning anything and this is of course not something I made up but something that I read in books that were written about learning and this is very interesting very useful so make sure you watch till the end to see that but before we get started guys I know it has been a while since I've last uploaded it's been a few weeks and I'm sorry for that but the reason is is because my team and I have been working on a really really good pronunciation course for American English because with what's up English I'm trying to turn this into a real business that can provide basically a solution for you guys to learn English from a beginner level all the way to intermediate conversational level but I want to provide you a stepbystep framework so you can you know study this master this and then learn that and then learn that and each one Builds on the last one right so the first step in this Stu stud system that I'm creating is a pronunciation course that covers all the sounds in American English like for example we say water we don't say water right and that D in water D water is called a flap te and you won't see that in the IPA but in this course we cover all of those sounds but more importantly we will give you shadowing practice and repetition practice cuz learning it is just one step but to actually have clear pronunciation when you speak you need to make it automatic with your tongue and your lips you need to build that muscle memory in your mouth to make these sounds without thinking to too much about it and I believe one of the best ways to do that is through repetition shadowing and making the noise correctly again and again and again until it becomes automatic and so in this course we won't only teach you the sounds but we'll give you shadowing practice for example for each sound you will learn three useful sentences that you can practice you will have a clear study plan so you will know exactly what to learn sorry and uh yeah I think it's going to be seriously one of the best pronunciation courses for American English for Vietnamese people if not the best so this takes a while to make um it will be at least I think a month or two before it comes out but if you are interested in purchasing this course then you can click the link in the description below and if you put in your email to show you're interested in this course and sign up for the early bird list you will get a 20% off voucher that only people who sign up uh will get so all you need to to do is click the link in the description below this video it will bring you to a web page you just put in your email and then you will receive a voucher for 20% off this course when it comes out and of course I will let you know when it comes out and aside from that we also have the 1,000 most common words uh you can still buy that for 79k yeah anyway let's get started with the podcast so this is about school so like I said I'll begin with a personal story I'm going to be completely honest with you guys about school I was not the best student all the way from I'd say grade s to grade 12 I was not the best student simply because I didn't really have an interest in any of the subjects we were studying in school and I'm the type of person where if I don't feel interested then it feels impossible for me to put effort into it it's like my brain just cannot do it maybe a lot of you can relate to that maybe you feel the same way if there's a course that you're not interested in it's just so hard for you to put your focus into that right so when I was in school I would normally just put the minimal amount of effort into the class so I could pass because of course I didn't want to fail the class and then go to summer school or have to repeat the class in the next sem Master but in terms of trying to get really good grades in school so I could go to a good University and then I could get a good job to be completely honest I wasn't thinking about that too much I just wanted to finish the school day so I could go and hang out with my friends or go home and play video games I think it was a lack of maturity but ALS so it was you know I wasn't the the happiest kid you know I wasn't all excited to learn and I was mostly just kind of kind of flat you know and you might think it's weird that I'm telling you this because now I'm on YouTube I'm teaching English but it's the truth and I'm going to tell you guys the truth right but the important thing is is that people change over time and as we grow up we mature our perspectives change and our values change what is important to us changes for example before I would just do the bare minimum to pass the class but now I'm studying online in a university and I'm getting a very decent GPA because my mindset is just completely different now I see the value in it and now I have pride you know I want to get good grades just because even I know in the future if I'm employed at a company they probably won't really care about my grades right they just want to see the paper you have have the degree the grades don't matter that much really but still for my personal reasons I want to get good grades because I'm paying for this and I I want to learn what they're teaching me and so growing up maturity mental health whether you're happy or or depressed they play a huge role in how well you do in school I really believe that probably even more than like your IQ or your intelligence level right because someone who's really really smart if they are kind of lazy or if they feel depressed and they don't want to put the work in or the effort in then they're probably not going to get very good grades at least when they reach the higher levels like the University meanwhile some people who are not very smart and they have to work harder than the smart kids they can still get good grades because they're putting the effort in yeah I think our our mental state is very important and anyway that was my experience in school so now let's talk about uh the school system in general in Vietnam so the school system begins with preschool and this is when the kids are around 3 or four years old there's also the word Nursery which is more common in England but because I'm Canadian we use North American English so the words I use will be the common words in North America if you know some other words then that that's possible they are common in England but in this podcast we'll use words common in North America so yeah kids begin with preschool when they're three or four years old and the purpose of preschool is not really to learn but to help the kids build their social skills um emotional skills and just basic cognitive skills to function as a human being right and then in Vietnam when they're around 4 to 6 years old so from 4 to 6 years old they go to kindergarten in kindergarten there's a more structured approach a more academic approach to prepare the kids for going into grade school to prepare them for grade one now preschool and kindergarten are not compulsory in Vietnam you don't have to send them there but from what I've heard pretty much all kids go to preschool and kindergarten because their parents are working and it's also a way for them to be taken care of right all right so after they finish kindergarten the kids go into Elementary school also known as primary school and in Vietnam Primary School are grades one to five yes one to five I had to think a bit because in Canada it's 1 to six so there are some small small differences after they finish Elementary School they go into Middle School also known as junior high but again in Canada we usually say middle school so Middle School in Vietnam are grades six 7 8 and nine and middle school is like a transitional period to prepare students for the more independent subject focused style of high school in Primary School [Music] it's more guided and nurturing in the way they learn but High School is much more independent and there's a lot more pressure and you're more focused on particular subjects so middle school is to help them transition into high school okay after they finish Middle School they go into high school so high school is grades 10 11 11 and 12 and from what I've heard from the people I've talked to is there's a ton of pressure in high school because you need to get good grades and you need to do well on the national National exam I can't remember the name yeah on the national exam or the na or the university entrance exam in order to get into a good University and it's very competitive so in high school a lot of students are stressed out they're under a lot of pressure um because they want to get accepted into a good University all right before I talk about the differences between Canada and Vietnam I want to go over some job titles that might be useful for you okay so we have the principal of the school then there's the vice principal of course we have teachers and one very prominent role in schools here in Vietnam is being The Home Room teacher so Home Room teacher um there are academic officers Librarians uh in Vietnam they have security guards so there are a lot of different staff members that make up the overall staff of the school okay so now let's move on to the differences between schools in Vietnam and schools in Canada first let's talk about classrooms so in Vietnam especially the urban areas like inside the city in public schools classes are usually between 40 to 50 students while in Canada they are around 20 to 30 students because of course in Canada we have way fewer people there is about 37 million people in Canada and a much larger country while Vietnam is much smaller with a 100 million people so class sizes are going to be bigger for sure in Vietnam classes normally have the L Chong right L Chong uh in Canada we also had these they were called a class monitor or a class leader but to be honest the role that they had was not as serious as the class monitors here in Viet Vietnam like in Vietnam the class leader has a lot of rules to do and they are expected to be a role model but when I was in school it wasn't a big thing to be honest I think in high school we didn't even have any class leaders in any of the classes if there was a class monitor their job was basically just to tell on the kids if they did something bad they would just look for you to do you know something like oh he's cheating or you know he just threw this thing at this student and that's what they would do another thing about classrooms in Vietnam versus Canada I read online that in Vietnam the the way they teach the focus is more on the teacher while in Canada the focus is more on the students and they want more part participation and interaction but I'm not really sure how true this is because I think it really depends on the teacher I've seen classes here in Vietnam where they had plenty of interaction and participation with the students and I've seen classes where it's just the teacher talking and students writing but I've also seen both ways in Canada as well you know when I was in school some teachers would just talk and you take notes and then some other classes were much more fun you could do other things so I think uh it's hard to generalize Vietnam is more like this than Canada because it really depends on the teachers but maybe in general Vietnam is a bit more teacher focused that could be possible all right so the next thing we'll talk about is exam pressure on students the pressure to do well in exams so for sure the education system in Vietnam puts a lot more emphasis and importance on exams than Canada and the West in general like in Vietnam the mark you get on your exam plays a big role into what university you'll get into but in Canada universities they look at your overall grades in grades 11 and 12 the last two years of high school and there's no one exam in Canada that will get you into universities they look at your overall grades and your grades are based on projects assignments participation and exams so in Canada exams play a role in your mark for example they might it might be worth like 30% of your overall Mark for that class but there's not one big exam that you have to do well in and I think having one exam that determines what university you'll go to that sounds extremely stressful it sounds like a lot of pressure and to be honest I'm quite glad that we didn't have to do that because it does sound quite stressful all right so overall there's less exam pressure in Canada in the west than in Vietnam okay so let's talk a little bit about parental expectations meaning the expectations of the parents on their children on the students so are Canadian parents as strict as Vietnamese parents as a whole I would say no um in fact when I was growing up in Canada we would often make jokes about how strict Asian parents are compared to everyone else and how much they value education so when I was in school there were a lot lot of kids whose parents were immigrants because it's Canada there are people from everywhere like in my class they would have kids from China kids from Japan kids from India from Pakistan from Iran from so many different countries but they were usually born in Canada but their parents came from their respective countries and I remember these parents would often put their kids in extracurricular tutoring things like Kuman for example many students in my classes went to Kuman which taught them math and it helped a lot they got by far the best grades in the class uh for math so in Canada it it varies some parents are strict some parents are not very strict in general I think think they are less strict than parents in Vietnam these days but also I know in Vietnam it varies as well some parents are very strict some parents not so much at the end of the day we're all kind of the same you know we're we're all just humans trying to do our best um there are some small differences but yeah all right so the last thing is uniforms in Vietnam uniforms are mandatory at most schools both Public Schools both public schools and private schools now these uniforms are usually uh a light colored shirt with dark pants in Canada uniforms are not nearly as common they only really wear uniforms at private schools or religious schools but when I went to a public school I never had to wear any uniform or anything like that so in Canada we don't have uniforms but we do have uh like a dress code for example you can't have a shirt with bad words on it or you can't wear a hat with a particular plant on it I think you probably know the leaf I'm talking about if you wore those they would maybe send you home to change or they would just make you take it off but that's about it okay guys the last part of this podcast I want to tell you the most important concept for learning so this is from a book called make it stick and it has a few interesting Concepts on how to learn but one really important one was the more difficult something is the better your brain learns it for example example if you're learning English and you learn a new word some people think the best way to learn a word is by writing it down 50 times it's like if I write it down 50 times or a 100 times then there's no way I will forget it right maybe this has happened to you you still forgot the word even after you wrote it so many times and then you think oh I just can't learn English or I just can't learn languages but the reason why that's not effective is because your brain is not being challenged you're just writing the word writing the word writing the word whereas if you do something more challenging with the word like using it in a sentence using it properly in a sentence then your brain has to work harder thinking about the word and it will form more connections to other things so sometimes the easier way we do that because uh you don't really have to think to write it 50 times right but if you study in a way where you have to think more you have to retrieve it from your brain and use it then that will help you learn better and this isn't just for language but it's for anything learning anything that's why they also say teaching is a great way to learn so when you learn something if you teach that concept to somebody else that's not easy that's difficult and your brain has to work quite hard to make these connections and explain this concept in a simple way but it will help you learn things so anyway that's the concept in a nutshell harder the harder you work the the better you will remember something so if you're taking if you're doing some easy things to try to learn it might not really be effective that's another reason why reviewing notes is not really effective because when you review your notes it's easy you're just looking at it again but when you do something called active retrieval meaning you think about everything that was in your notes for example if if you took some notes don't reread them but try to rewrite all the notes you took in different words try to remember all the information and once you do that then you can compare what you remembered and what you didn't right so then you can see oh I forgot to talk about this thing this thing this thing and then try again retrieve the information from your head and write it in new words and that will help you a lot more than just rereading your notes all right so that'll be it for this podcast guys remember make sure to uh sign up for the 20% voucher for the complete American English pronunciation course the link is in the description below and if you want to support the channel you can buy the 1,000 most common words the link for that is also in the description below so thank you so much for watching and I hope you have a fantastic day uh I will see you in maybe one or two weeks but uploads will be a little more slow because I'm working on the course but anyway we'll see you soon have a great day goodbye