1. In English learning, persistence is far more important than methods.
A bowl of sincere chicken soup first, I'll go first.
Have you met Zootopia?
Judy Bonnie dreamed of becoming a policeman when she was young. Everyone, including her parents, said that she was whimsical.
Judy doesn't believe them. Nothing is impossible for her. In the end, she did it, became an excellent policeman and won a shining medal.
Your life is also looking forward to that shining moment.
The most important thing you need to do is:
Hold on!
The most important thing in language learning is persistence, no matter how good the method is.
Persistence is never an easy task. Will encounter various difficulties:
Need to fight loneliness.
It takes effort.
You need to save yourself from depression from time to time.
You need to face yourself who is not so talented.
Need to overcome unimaginable difficulties
Need to face all kinds of blows.
Yes, it's easier to give up than to persist.
There are 1000 reasons for you to give up every minute. The only thing that can keep you going is your desire and love for achieving your goals.
Just like Judy, she loves the police career and is always ready to be a good policeman.
Therefore, even if she dies in the police academy, even if she is a traffic policeman who can only write tickets, she can be passionate and meticulous.
As far as I am concerned, my goal is clear-I don't want to be an ordinary office worker, and I don't want to be a housewife who is addicted to daily necessities.
If you don't want to be mediocre, you must learn to shine.
On the one hand, I choose to learn English because I love this language. On the other hand, I want to learn it well and become better.
What's your goal? Maybe CET-4, TOEFL and IELTS, maybe to be a great English speaker, or maybe just to be better. . . Pretend to be forced, hey hey
When you can't hold on, think about your original dream, think about that radiant moment that belongs to you. I hope that one day, like Judy, you can stand in the center of the stage of life and accept that splendid medal.
2. Recite words, you must know the secret.
After talking about persistence, let's talk about the most basic thing in learning English-memorizing words.
The word grinding goblin
We love and hate. What we like is that we can't learn English without it. What we hate is that we often forget it after reciting it. Every time we read and understand, there are words that we can't understand.
If there is a secret to memorizing words, it must be: recite again!
How long does it take to recite a word?
1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes?
Is there anyone like me, holding a book and staring at a word for a long time?
I thought I was familiar with it, but when I saw it, I still wanted to say, hey, just stay here and see if you are familiar with it. Have we met? I threw a word, scolded you, you are stupid, and then left without looking back, leaving no meaning in my heart.
Um ... . . this
Another disadvantage of this kind of back is that it is easy to stare at the book and start to lose your mind. When I came to my senses, oh, it's been an hour, and I didn't remember a word. At this moment, my heart was broken.
So I used to memorize words, which was not only inefficient, took a lot of time, but also ineffective. I often forget when I recite it. And because I can't get a sense of accomplishment, I don't want to recite it at all. I want to vomit when I see the word book, forming a vicious circle.
Teacher Sisi of New Oriental said in the book The King of English that words are not memorized, but easy to forget. A word recited by 1 minute will be forgotten. Even if you recite it carefully for ten minutes, it's no use crying for it to stay when it's gone.
Therefore, "a word doesn't need to be memorized for too long, and repetition is king."
How to repeat? According to people's memory curve, it is best to repeat it half an hour to an hour after reciting. Repeat the same day, repeat the next day, repeat two or three days later, and basically remember the word firmly.
In the book "The King of English", specific repetition methods are also explained. Combined with my own understanding, the correct posture of memorizing words is summarized as follows:
Get a pen and paper ready, and open your back after removing all interference!
When you see a word, such as demo, you don't know it at first sight.
Step one, quickly put a mark next to the word.
The second step is to look at pronunciation and common meanings. Generally, you can remember the first two, but you can't remember them anymore. For demonstration, its general meaning is to prove and show, and the other is to demonstrate.
Step three, write on the paper several times, at least five times.
The fourth step is to look at the example sentences and get familiar with the usage and proper context of the words.
It only takes about 2 or 3 minutes to complete these steps, and it is no problem to recite about 30 words in an hour. This completes the first memory. Repeat these 30 words immediately after reciting, especially those marked, focus on them, and then start reciting new words. Because I just recited it, I have a deep memory. This time I repeat it in less than 5 minutes.
Then recite the whole day and read all the words by heart. Repeat what you read the day before you remember the new words the next day. The words recited on the first day are repeated in three or four days. Repeat this until you finish reciting a word book.
Do you think it's over? Do you all want to burn the books that have been recited n times?
But this is really just the beginning.
You can't do this already.
Yes, I'm not kidding you. This is the first time. Please continue to learn twice a day in this repetitive way, and just recite the word book again. It used to take you 30 days to recite, but now it only takes 15 days. After all, I am familiar. The second time, the amount is doubled. I have to recite it for seven days this time. So repeatedly, you can basically finish reading this book in a few hours.
Only in this way can a book be destroyed. At this time, congratulations, you have achieved great success.
To learn English, you must be able to open your brain.
Memorizing words is also a technical job.
The core method of memorizing words is mentioned above. Now let's talk about the skills of memorizing words.
Just now I said it's easy to recite a word. Do you really want to hit me?
Obviously, many words are grotesque and it is not easy to recite them.
Like these.
Although the above has not reached the level of ingenuity, it is not something you can remember at a glance.
Associative memory is recommended here, that is, through certain associations, unfamiliar words are successfully linked with what you are familiar with, which is helpful for memory.
I call it the brain hole opening method!
A good brain hole makes it easy to recite words.
Many English teachers have used this method. My favorite is Miss Zhao Li, whose "Zhao Li Vocabulary" series is wonderful and thoughtful.
For example, she said the above words:
Haggard, haggard. Among them, "Auntie" is familiar to us, which means Auntie. "G" can be associated with ghosts, and this word can be associated with "ghost aunt". The image of "ghost aunt" is "haggard" So it's easy to remember its meaning.
Heavy and heavy. Its pronunciation is homophonic "fat as hell" Listening to this voice, "fat to death", is it very cumbersome?
Moreover, depressed, depressed. The homonym "no shredded pork" is too easy to understand for a foodie like me. "What, there is no shredded pork, the baby is so depressed and wants to cry".
Look at the avalanche, avalanche. The word doesn't look normal, and Zhao Li's brain is wide open: "ava" looks like the face of a cartoon mouse.
"Stop the car" is like the pinyin of "stop the car", and the connected association is: when an avalanche occurs, the mouse will stop the car.
Teacher Sisi has always had a big brain hole, and his association is also very interesting.
For example, coarseness means obscenity. He homophones it as ear wax.
But it really fits the situation of this word. Picking ear wax is a bit obscene, and you can remember the meaning and writing of this word at once.
Lenovo is similar to the above methods, some are homophonic, and some are related to specific images. No matter how strange and contradictory the association is, even if the brain hole opens into outer space, as long as it reminds you, it will achieve its goal.
Because what our brain can remember is what forms a pathway with it. Through association, unfamiliar words can be associated with familiar things, forming a pathway in the brain. Of course, if you are familiar with this word, you have formed a powerful channel, and you no longer need to deliberately associate these words. Associative method is a memory method that makes us get twice the result with half the effort when memorizing words at the beginning.
Moreover, this method will also make us have fun in the process of memorizing words.
So when reciting words, please imagine yourself as an overbearing president.
Use association to bring the grinding words "goblins" into the harem of the brain one by one, so that they can no longer live without them. Think about whether you are still a little excited.
4. Make good use of words to learn App
Now there are many English-learning apps, all of which are doing well, such as scallops, hundreds of words and so on. The functions are almost the same, don't worry about which one to use, just choose a convenient one.
Generally, the software sets the amount of word tasks on it, and then starts the daily punching tasks.
Benefits of using software:
First, it has the function of repeated push, which can set the frequency of words according to people's memory mode, and can also mark unknown words conveniently to increase the push frequency. Mom is no longer worried that I forgot!
Second, the interest in memorizing words will increase, such as using interesting pictures to help memory. There are various learning groups in scallop ci. Everyone punches in together, and if they are interrupted, they are kicked out of the group. It's also quite interesting.
Third, you can make a reading plan in the software, learn words in reading, find the meaning of words you can't know at any time, or throw them directly into the new word book.
Fourth, with the software, you can use the fragmented time to learn anytime and anywhere. Think about when others are bored waiting in line, you take out your mobile phone and write a few words; When others look around on the bus or wander around to kill time, you silently remember a few words; Remember a few words when others eat and serve in the restaurant. This is a question of how to succeed (pretend)
I immediately felt super motivated, hia hia!
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Finally, apply a popular chicken soup recently: don't give up learning English easily. If this is your dream, it will be painful to persist, but you will regret it more. Continue your stubbornness.