How can I memorize so many words? The most important point is: if you want to be more successful than others, you must take shortcuts. Don't expect to be luckier than others, and don't expect to be smarter or more diligent than others. In terms of intelligence and opportunities, there is not much difference between you and others. If you want to surpass people who are similar to you, you must take shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts!
The first shortcut to memorizing words is: you must memorize them in large quantities every time.
Because I am not smarter than others, after memorizing the words, others will forget one-fifth, but I will never forget less than others. However, while others memorize ten words every day, I can memorize a hundred words, forget one-fifth, and have eighty words left, which is ten times as many as others in their smartest state. One hundred per day is the minimum. In fact, after you memorize it, you will find that this requirement is not high. After a month, you may naturally memorize three hundred or five hundred.
The hundred should be carried in four groups, thirty in the morning, ten at noon, thirty in the afternoon, and thirty in the evening. The next morning, I reviewed the words I had not memorized before. When memorizing, you should read ten words at a time (note, ten words, not more or less). Don't memorize it seriously, because you don't have time to take it seriously. Read the pronunciation of each word while reading, or read silently. Recall it after reading it, and read it again if you can't recall it. The purpose of memorizing this time is to leave a general impression so that you can know the word when you see it next time. So just memorize most of it and you can recall it, and copy out the remaining words separately.
The second shortcut to memorizing words is: memorize a dictionary! Why memorize a dictionary? Because the explanation of each word in the dictionary is relatively comprehensive, and words starting with the same letters are grouped together. Not all dictionaries can be used to memorize. You must find a dictionary that only contains the words you want to memorize. In addition, it is best to have explanations and examples. Moreover, there must be phonetic symbols! The vocabulary lists at the back of the text in general textbooks are prepared for good students who listen carefully to the lectures. If you want to take shortcuts, don't memorize those things.
When memorizing the dictionary, press the starting letters (Z, Y, X, Q, J, K, U) (V, W, N, O, L) (FG, IT, HM, BDE, R) (C, P, S, A) is memorized in the order in which each of C, P, S, and A must be memorized in three parts. Memorizing this way has several benefits: (1) It can increase the sense of accomplishment and interest. As for why, you will understand it if you look in the dictionary. (2) It is easy to know clearly which words have been memorized and which words have not been memorized. (3) Be able to master the most basic words first.
Thirty thousand words are divided into three levels: three thousand to four thousand, eight thousand to ten thousand, and twenty two thousand to thirty thousand. In other words, you have to prepare three dictionaries. Each of these levels has very different characteristics, so they need to be memorized in different ways. I didn't realize this at the time, so I took a detour from 10,000 to 30,000 and wasted some time. Otherwise, I might be able to break through to 50,000.
Therefore, the following shortcut to memorizing words has three branches:
The third shortcut to memorizing words is: meet the words more often. Whether a word can be remembered depends on how often you meet it on different occasions, not on the length of time you look at it each time (the same rule applies to dating girls). Generally, if you want to memorize a word, you need to meet it three to four times a week on "different occasions." When I mentioned above memorizing a large number of words, this is what I meant by not choosing whether to remember a certain word. Because it doesn’t matter if you fall in love at first sight, the key is to have more opportunities to meet in different types. However, depending on the level of the words to be memorized, the ways to increase the chance of meeting are also different.
The first branch: Listen blindly! The level of three thousand to four thousand is a very commonly used word, and it includes almost all the vocabulary needed to express the most basic ideas. Eighty percent of each article consists of these words, and these words are the most basic morphemes (or "roots"), which are things that cannot be divided into small pieces and have no similarities with each other.
The best way to deal with these words is to carry out a large number of uninterrupted and simple primary listening exercises. Because there are 20% other vocabulary in the reading materials, you can't understand those reading materials just by using words at this level. However, listening exercises are the most basic conversations, and the pronunciation is generally very standard. Listening more can increase the repetition rate of words, and can lay a pronunciation foundation for memorizing 8,000 to 10,000 words in the future.
When listening, it should be divided into two parts: intensive listening and extensive listening. Of course, intensive listening means that every word must be understood. I will focus on extensive listening. Extensive listening is the most important, because mastering the speed and intonation of speech, as well as the overall impression, depends on extensive listening. And these are the basis for memorizing 8,000 to 10,000 level words. Extensive listening can pry your ears out of frequently used words (that is, those words that are most necessary to master), allowing you to vaguely hear a sound and be able to reflect what it means. The words you hear during extensive listening are the words you should really remember, so don’t be afraid that you won’t understand anything during intensive listening. What exactly is extensive listening? Extensive listening means that when you listen, you should be distracted and do other things (such as making rice or discussing the meal loudly with others), while listening attentively. Extensive listening must find every opportunity to make every effort. Just listen when you have the chance, preferably with headphones close to your ears.
And the meaning of listening carefully is to find those words that you have not heard clearly. Ah, those are the words that you have memorized but are not yet familiar with. . Write down these words in another place, don't mix them with the words you haven't memorized. For example, if you listen to the second tape carefully, listen to the first one. A tape, just right. Just a reminder, don’t use English radio as your listening textbook!
The second branch: binge watching! The level of 8,000 to 10,000 basically covers the rest. Twenty percent. These words are difficult to find in listening textbooks. However, don’t stop practicing listening, because listening can consolidate your sense of intonation, which is a key to memorizing words at this level. For level words, reading needs to be added in addition to listening.
Reading is also divided into two types: intensive reading and extensive reading. Extensive reading is more important. The article should be long and you can read it patiently, and don’t have too many words that you don’t understand. Two or three unfamiliar words in an article are enough. Don’t read English newspapers, magazines, and novels right away. Those things are not only very complicated. It's difficult to understand, and it won't help you memorize the words once you understand it.
Extensive reading also requires a lot of practice. As long as you have patience and enough time, just keep reading without reading it carefully! Just read and understand the general meaning at a glance, and then mark the words you don’t understand at first glance. Don’t wonder what they mean, just keep scanning! After reading them all, go back and look at these words. There are some possibilities. Already remembered, some... haven't remembered yet? Then look it up in the dictionary. If you haven't memorized it yet, throw it away. If you have memorized it, just copy it down separately, and use it in listening exercises. Put the unheard words together.
The third branch: talking nonsense! This is only suitable for memorizing 22,000 to 30,000 words, because the other words can be memorized without saying them. There are very few words of this level in the reading materials. I may have read ten articles but not even one word of this level. So it is no longer possible to increase the chance of meeting by reading. Some foreigners have never seen these words in their lives. How can I do that? Expect them to write it? Especially GRE vocabulary, such as "clothes the horse", "the gangster in New York", and "the wind blowing from Africa to southern Europe", that is, if If you only use these words in your words, then you can pretend to be a scholar.
Most foreigners cannot understand these words, so they can express the same meaning without using these words. Well, here's your chance. You can use these words when speaking to foreigners, and then proudly and humbly explain the meanings of these words to them.
Explain one or two words to foreigners at a time. Words are enough, foreigners will admire you with admiration. HL just explain it to ws! Be bold and patient, and above all bold.
At this stage, you should not practice listening again, because you will not make much progress if you practice. Remember that sentence at the beginning? To succeed, you have to take shortcuts.
There is no need to waste time on any action that cannot achieve great progress in a short period of time.
However, the reading materials at this time become a problem: you will find that the things you read in the past were too shallow and boring, and you can't understand other deep things. You will also find a new interesting phenomenon: the article you want to read is now full of the first-level words. You know exactly what each word means, but you just can't understand the entire article.
So what should you watch? Just look at the simple articles on the second level. Although it is simple, it can help you not to forget the results you memorized in the past. As for the articles you don't understand, don't worry. Once you communicate with foreigners more, you will naturally understand them. They are all articles composed of phrases, slang or grammar.
The fourth shortcut to memorizing words is: association, association, association. What is the first action to memorize a word? Take a look at its appearance. What about the second and third actions? Look at its connotation and pronunciation. The fourth action should be to associate, and then associate.
Think about whether it looks similar to other memorized words? Similar pronunciation? Similar or opposite meaning? If so, write it down quickly and add this word next to the other words. In this way, when you see other words in the future, you will also think of this word, which is equivalent to adding another chance to meet.
Moreover, in the second and third level vocabulary, there are many words composed of "prefix", "root" and "suffix". Prefixes such as "re" and "in" , "pseud"..., suffixes such as "er", "a", "oid"..., and then *** together form a new word. If you master these suffixes, you can easily guess what a new word means. In addition, there are many words with similar sounds that have similar meanings, which is more common in slang, poetry, and children's language. If you memorize 80 words every day, you can only memorize 2,400 words in a month. But after mastering these rules, you can actually memorize faster and faster, and you can learn almost 10,000 words without memorizing them.
However, among the GRE words, there are many words that have no relationship with other words and have no suffixes or suffixes. They seem simple and difficult to remember. These words include Greek, Italian, German, Latin, and even Japanese transliterations. This can only be mastered by explaining it to others.
The fifth shortcut to memorizing words is: review! The faster you remember, the faster you forget. This is a very normal rule. In the process of memorizing words, review is very important. I summarized the review rules as follows: review ten words once, then thirty words, and then all the words that have not been memorized before. When reviewing, you don't need to dig it carefully, just scan it roughly, but you must think about its pronunciation (because English is onomatopoeic). The word that cannot be memorized in the end must be a word that is not commonly used, because foreigners cannot memorize it either.
After each word that starts with a letter, you must review the previous word with a letter that starts with it. Then after each memorization of the first letter in the parentheses in the previous article, review the previous one in parentheses. When reviewing, you should first look at the English translation and read the Chinese meaning, and then look at the Chinese and think of the English words again.
As mentioned before, words forgotten during extensive listening and extensive reading should be written down separately from words that cannot be remembered during memorization, in order to treat them differently during review. For forgotten words, you need to read them once every day and cross them out when you understand them. For words that you cannot remember, you need to memorize the words separately after you have memorized the entire alphabet. You don't need to read them normally.