1. How can I cultivate my interest in memorizing words? \x0d\ Any interest has two reasons: one is utilitarian, and the other is pure fun. After thinking about CET-6, bring 20 sets of real questions in the past ten years and dig out the original texts of reading and listening. \x0d\ Take a paper dictionary (I suggest using Collins dictionary with five-star word frequency label), find out the new words one by one, and recite all the words carefully except those with strong academic characteristics. \x0d\ You will find that the repetition rate of new words in each set of papers is very high, and each new word is very useful. If it is not for the exam, but because of interest, then you can buy a favorite reading. Some people like Harry Potter. \x0d\ Some people like Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights, while others like The Economist. Because you like it, you really want to understand it, so when you see a new word in the way, you get angry and have to kill it. So you want to find out the problem, and you want to recite it. \x0d\ If you don't have goals and enthusiasm for the above two things, then don't recite words. There are many scholars in the world, so you don't have to take it out on English. \x0d\ 2。 How many words can I recite to be free? \x0d\ Learning English is a sentence, and when you get out of prison is related to your vocabulary. Back to that point, it rushed out of the atmosphere and floated. Release! \x0d\ Collins series dictionaries are thesaurus, which puts forward a "95% theory": words are marked in dictionaries according to the standard of five stars to one star, and it is claimed that if you memorize all these words, you can read 95%! \x0d\ That is to say, when reading, you can reach the level where only 5 words out of every 100 are unknown. \x0d\ Later, many papers by Paul Nation, a New Zealand linguist, impressed me deeply. He said, 98% will do. 98% means that for every 50 words read, only one word is unknown, which basically does not affect reading. \x0d\ According to the average 13 words per line in English, there is only one new word after reading four lines. Correct! The standard of 95% still doesn't work. You don't know one of the 20 words, which means you will encounter a new word with less than two lines, and you can't read it! \x0d\ Paul people have come to the conclusion through a lot of research: to reach the standard of 98%, it is necessary to master 9000 words of reading novels and 8000 words of reading newspapers and periodicals. \x0d\ I quite agree with this view. According to the general level, everyone's vocabulary should be around 3000, so you still need to remember 6000 words. \x0d\ 3。 What is the purpose of memorizing words? \x0d\ We often talk about not forgetting your active thinking. We are obviously from China, so we must speak a foreign language and memorize the vocabulary of foreigners. What do we want? What is the initial heart? \x0d\ The initial intention is either to pass the exam or to enjoy English itself. But in any case, to apply what you have learned and master words means to understand the text, apply it to reading and listening, and quickly and accurately grasp the main idea that the other party wants to express. \x0d\ There has never been a word test in the pure sense, and English tests are all words in the overall language background. \x0d\ Take TOEFL reading as an example. If candidates want to answer questions correctly, the key skill is to quickly and accurately identify the main idea of the article and understand what the article is saying. \x0d\ Grasp the center of the full text, grasp the main idea of the paragraph, and sort out the general context of the article-if you can do this, the question is not difficult to answer. There are two problems that affect the examinee's accurate grasp of the main idea. \x0d\ 1. Candidates' ability to interpret long sentences is weak. After using attributive clauses, participles, object-object structures and other parenthesis between subject and predicate, the sentence structure is complex and candidates can't see the main body of the sentence. \x0d\ This aspect requires us to sort out our grammar knowledge and do some recitation and translation exercises. Another problem is the lack of mastery of words. \x0d\ Some candidates don't know what a word means when they see it. Some candidates are troublesome, and take A as B, or don't know that A means A2, A3 and A4. \x0d\ To grasp the meaning of the word in all directions, what we need to do is to accurately interpret the meaning of the word "here" in the context. \x0d\ In the sentence "The king and queen are the leaders of the times", the meaning of numbers is not numbers, figures and images, but people, and the times are not ages, but times. \x0d\ This is not a problem that can be solved by memorizing the list in the vocabulary book. In the sentence "The French king used all means to push French territory to the southern Mediterranean", candidates must understand that the means here have nothing to do with meaning, but means. \x0d\ Another problem in learning English words is to regard comparison as connection and rest as relaxation; \x0d\ or I can't understand "this country is more considerate than that country" (consideration here has nothing to do with "consideration", but means "extremely, very"). \x0d\ Memorizing words is not simply memorizing lists, but returning to the embrace of the original text. The foreigner said, "Without context, there would be no words." Words can only be vivid in context. \x0d\ 4。 What words do you want to recite? \x0d\ Generally, we can divide words into the following four categories. \x0d\ is a very popular word. When Beijingers say "wrong", it means "goodbye". This word is a bit like slang in English. Not everyone understands it, and not everyone can use it. \x0d\ Professor Chen Dezhang of Beijing Foreign Studies University wrote in his book that "I heard him driving his pig to the market" (I heard him snoring). In all my years as a translator, no one has ever said such a thing to me, and I dare not tell anyone. Why? Because it is slang. If you don't know the background culture thoroughly enough, you can't use such an expression. \x0d\ followed by spoken words. For example, we don't say much, and rhetorical questions that foreigners like are very colloquial. \x0d\ For another example, when people in China say "fired", it is very popular to say "fired", while foreigners often say "fired" in spoken language, and the more popular expression is "get the ax", which is slang. \x0d\ 3 is a more formal academic vocabulary. Everyone's word problems are mostly in this respect. We usually say it gets worse, while foreigners use detectives in the news. \x0d\ We thought it was enough to tell the difference, but foreigners insisted on it. It means "experience". Although experience is used in TOEFL reading, it often appears in the form of experience. \x0d\ means "appear", which can be used as "appear" or "emerge". It means "the power of emperors and generals (especially political and military power)", and "possible" should be used. At this time, don't interpret the meaning of "possible". \x0d\ 4 is a discipline term. This kind of vocabulary mainly refers to the terms in a profession. For example, the word tuck means "tuck in the quilt" in spoken language, which is very common in American TV dramas. \x0d\ There is a saying in the football rules: "Players should stuff their shirts into their shorts." The shirt must be tucked into the shorts. Tucker's meaning in this sentence is a little written. \x0d\ But when the football coach was directing the training, he shouted to the four defenders, "Eat!" This is a technical term, which means "bring it in, bring it in!" "TOEFL has many key words, such as chlorophyll and Pleistocene. Those who don't engage in these majors can get a general idea of the meaning of these words through the context. \x0d\ So, my advice to you is that if you don't know the relevant culture, I suggest you don't learn slang words. \x0d\ American TV series, especially the more life-oriented American TV series, have a lot of slang, so don't learn this. Oral vocabulary should be learned and used well. China people go abroad, and only those with nonstandard pronunciation will not suffocate if they can't speak English. \x0d\ As for the subject terminology, after knowing what to try and do, you can decide whether to learn, how much to learn and how deep to learn according to the needs and related requirements. \x0d\ The 6,000 words that people can't master well are mostly written language, formal language and academic language, which are common words in foreign school textbooks, reading materials, newspapers and magazines. So this kind of vocabulary is the focus of everyone's memory. \x0d\ 5。 Is it awesome that I recite these 6000 words? \x0d\ The answer to this question is "No". The shorter the text, the more pleasing to the eye and the more popular it is with foreigners. Therefore, they always add new meanings to these words. \x0d\ For example, the word spring means "spring" when I first saw it, and I didn't know it was "spring" until I saw you at 18. Then one day I watched Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and the word suddenly changed to mean "spring". \x0d\ When we met for the 27th time, this word appeared on the beverage bottle, which means "spring water". This is really a collapse. \x0d\ These 6,000 words are like two kinds of people. One is good people, and all the explanations of these words used to be the same meaning, but they showed different sides in different contexts. \x0d\ There is another kind of bad guy. These words have many meanings. At first glance, the two have nothing to do with each other, so it is not so easy to remember. \x0d\ For example, the word speculation originally meant "speculation". Later, when I read a business article, I found that it also meant "speculation". \x0d\ Two days later, I did TOEFL reading. The article talks about Europe in the 12 century. Southern Europe was the center of talents at that time, and various disciplines blossomed, including science, mathematics, poetry, law, historical documents, translation, religious speculation and so on. I searched for a long time and found that the original meaning of this phrase is "religious thinking" \x0d\ If I hadn't met these three meanings on different occasions and written them down every time, it would be difficult to quickly reflect their meanings just by guessing. \x0d\ So to master these 6,000 words, it is conservative to say that you have to memorize15,000 meanings, which is not much different from memorizing the same number of words. \x0d\ 6。 How to recite words? \x0d\ holds Collins bilingual dictionary in his left hand and a long notebook with an article he wants to read in the middle. \x0d\ This is equivalent to holding a fork in your left hand and a knife in your right hand, but the key is to love this western food among you. Dig out the real questions, find out the reading articles and listen to the original text, and find out every new word that often appears. \x0d\ If it is a novel, open the first page and continue reading. If you have more than eight new words, don't read this book. \x0d\ because the author of this book wants to explain that the writing level is much higher than your current reading ability. You should change a grounded book, otherwise you can't read it at all. \x0d\ Do you want to read a novel? You haven't got out of the first three pages after 60 words? There are eight protagonists, and one just came out. Before monologues and stream of consciousness were finished, 60 new words appeared. Life is worse than death! \x0d\ So you'd better take a book that meets your English level. There are no more than eight new words on the front page, and you can touch them as long as you stand on tiptoe. \x0d\ Don't hold your fire when you see new words. When you first see them, don't look up at them. You have to squeeze out the total reading tonight. This is called extensive reading in intensive reading. \x0d\ Check the word again when it appears for the second time, which means it is a high-frequency word and must be checked. This is called intensive reading in extensive reading. \x0d\ thick and thin, thin and thick, quality and quantity. New words come up once, click once when you are in a good mood, and put them in the past when you are in a bad mood. \x0d\ 7。 There are so many messy explanations for an entry. What should I write in my notebook? \x0d\ A word has many meanings, but you should remember that there are only two meanings in the notebook: the first meaning of the word in the entry and its meaning in the present context. \x0d\ Be kind to every word like sowing seeds. Giving it air, sunshine and water means remembering its pronunciation, meaning and collocation. In this way, you plant it in your mind. \x0d\ 8。 What is the pronunciation? \x0d\ When memorizing pronunciation, stress, pronunciation of vowels in words and strange sounds that deviate from the pronunciation rules are the key points in memory, which can be simplified as "key, meta and strange". \x0d\ For example, the word editorial needs to be stressed on the letter T, otherwise it will be easily mispronounced. For example, I mispronounced this A in fundamental da for several years, and it should be pronounced as [? ], instead of [i], you can mark this vowel. \x0d\ At the same time, remind everyone not to copy down the phonetic symbols of every word, which will delay time and easily ignore the key points. \x0d\ 9。 How to use word frequency? \x0d\ When memorizing words, you need to know which words are worth memorizing and which words are too low-frequency. It is very likely that we will meet today and never see each other again in this life. There are many versions of \x0d\ Collins dictionary, and the best version uses five stars to mark the word frequency. Five stars is the highest frequency, and one star is the lowest frequency. \x0d\ I took my students to look up the word available that day, and found that its word frequency is five stars, which is the same level as The, and it is more common than a four-star apple. We both collapsed, so the students quickly recited examples of words. \x0d\ 10, how to remember the meaning and collocation? \x0d\ Do you want to remember the English explanations of words? This requires the comparison between Chinese interpretation and English interpretation, and there is no certain rule. \x0d\ For example, just remember the meaning of "sparrow". Its English explanation is "a kind of brown bird, which is very common in many parts of the world". If you only look at this English explanation, you may not know what bird you are talking about for a long time. \x0d\ When you memorize definitions, you should compare Chinese and English definitions, which is more convenient to remember and which is more meaningful to remember. \x0d\ Remembering the collocation of words means remembering what is before and after the words, and you don't have to copy down the example sentences. Only by knowing the length and collocation of this word can we know where and how to use this word. \x0d\ 1 1。 Don't always look up the same word. When I was in college, I liked reading English novels. When I meet a word I don't know, I look it up in the dictionary. I was very discouraged at one time. I had a habit at that time, that is, when I looked up this word, I would make a mark in the dictionary. \x0d\ Later, I found that the marked words always need to be checked again, mainly because I didn't remember the pronunciation, meaning and collocation of the words at once. \x0d\ Of course, we can look up a word over and over again, but make sure you remember one side of it last time, and this time you need it to turn around and remember the other side. \x0d\ For example, contract followed by with means "have to cope"; Contract is followed by for, which means "struggle"; Contend is followed by that, which means "claim, assert" \ x0d \12. When will the words be remembered? \x0d\ It takes two chances to recite words. \x0d\ First of all, you found it when you were reading, planted it in a small notebook and gave it air, sunshine and water. It took root and sprouted. \x0d\ The next day, the third day, you saw it again, and immediately reflected its meaning, and you will never forget it. \x0d\ Secondly, not all the words you "planted" will have a chance to meet in the future, and you must remember them by "output". \x0d\ That is to say, you remember words back and forth in your notebook, sometimes you write and draw pictures and output them on paper, and sometimes you mumble and spit in your notebook. \x0d\ completed the process of inputting from the eyes, saving in the brain, and finally outputting by hand and mouth, and the words are almost yours. Looking forward to meeting you. \x0d\ 13。 Do words have to be recited so earnestly? \x0d\ Effective methods of memorizing words all have the same feature, that is, starting from the context and returning to the context, you need to be busy in the middle process. \x0d\ If you work hard for it, it will never leave you. Be kind to one at a time, look carefully and study carefully. \x0d\ Those lists look lovely, but you can't find those words. If you "kiss" each other's "forehead" hundreds of times a night, they will not be sincere to you, and of course you will not remember them. \x0d\ 14, can I remember it so carefully? \x0d\ Whether reading an article or taking an exam, many times candidates can't understand what the article is trying to express, not because they don't know a word, but mainly in the following four situations: \x0d\ ① All the words are known, but they just can't understand a word; ② Misrecognition of similar words, such as taking include \ x0d \ (including) as compose\x0d\ (composing); (3) Familiar words are ambiguous, only seeing one side of the word, not knowing that there is another side or two sides; I'm not familiar with phrases. I used to know all the individual words, but when they were combined into phrases with new meanings, I didn't know them. \x0d\ Strive to fight the above four situations, sort out clear clues in your own mind, and carefully remember the sound, shape and meaning of each word. This is a tiring job and a great test. \x0d\ 15。 How long will these words pass? \x0d\ If you read an English book with 200-300 pages every two weeks, you will read it for four hours in one night on average, with about 20-30 pages a day, and you will remember 2-3 words per page on average. After reading a book, you can remember 600 high-frequency words. \x0d\ In this way, you can read 52 books with more than 30,000 words in two years. Deduct 50% repetition rate and pat your head, which means 15000 meanings. \x0d\ clap your head again, which is equivalent to 6000 words. Together with the existing high school vocabulary, it should reach 9000 ~ 10000 words. Generally speaking, if you can concentrate on learning English for four hours every day, you can basically achieve language freedom within two years according to the above rhythm. It's just that many times, we didn't stick to it. \x0d\ You said two years is too long. Then extend the time of learning English every day. It can't be less than one year at the earliest, otherwise the mastery is not solid. \x0d\ If you set specific goals, start learning English as early as possible. I have worked in the English training industry for almost 13 years, and I have met many English learners, among whom there are major exam goals; \x0d\ For example, there are very few people who insist on learning English for two years seriously, and they always expect to be quick and give up if they can't do it in the short term. This is a taboo in learning English.