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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
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American
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intermediate conversational level but I
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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
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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
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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
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course but anyway we'll see you soon
have a great day goodbye
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