Is it easy to learn English? There must be many students who say "it's hard to die". Why do so many students have a headache about English learning? There is only one answer: "impossible." English is a language like Chinese. Why do you speak Chinese so fluently? That's because you are in the environment of China. If you stay in London for the first half of the year, you can speak English fluently. However, the English environment of many middle school students is not good, so you can set up an English environment by yourself and insist on "speaking more", "listening more", "reading more" and "writing more", then your English scores will be excellent. Especially when you are with good friends, try to greet and talk about your feelings in English ... then you need to carry a small English-Chinese translation dictionary with you. Look up new words when you meet them, and don't bother to remember them. If you use it too much, the word will naturally be remembered. Never take learning English as a burden, and always take it as an interesting thing. Maybe if you have a chance to meet foreigners, you should boldly go up and say hello to them. Talk to him about the weather, scenery, school ... just don't ask him personal questions like his age and marriage history. Try to talk to him with some words and sentences you have learned. Soon you will find it much easier to talk with foreigners in English than with people from China. Because he uses many simple words when he talks to you, and he doesn't pay much attention to words. As long as you pronounce correctly, you will be able to communicate smoothly. It's just that you have to have confidence. Dare to express your thoughts. It doesn't matter if you don't have the right partner. You can take a book or something as the object of imagination and talk about what you have seen and heard in a day, your happiness, your sadness and so on. If you insist on doing this, your spoken English will certainly be greatly improved. Second, "listen" to find every opportunity to listen to English. When others talk in English, you should boldly participate and listen to all kinds of people. You should be exposed to both fast and slow rhythms. If such opportunities are rare, you can choose to listen to articles you don't know, which is of great help to you, while listening to tapes of texts you have already learned is of great help to your language intonation learning. Third, read more books. Reading can be divided into two types. One is silent reading. It helps to practice for a certain time every day. The content of reading can be your textbook, but it is best to read some interesting little books, because the English college entrance examination now pays more and more attention to reading quantity and reading speed. The score of each question has a great relationship with your comprehension ability, so after three years of reading training in high school, you will definitely win the college entrance examination. The other is "reading aloud", which is an indispensable way to learn a language. Fourth, some students always complain that time is tight. There is no time to write a composition at all. In fact, there are many forms of "writing", which may not improve your writing ability. For example, if you write down some important things that happened in your day, or learn a certain phrase, you can create a context to use the word properly. This can help you remember the usage of words and exercise your writing ability. For example, when learning the word "wish", you can write a short paragraph like this: Teachers often ask us what kind of people we want to be in the future. My good friend Tom hopes to be a soldier. I'm different anyway. I hope I will be a teacher in the future. But my mother wants me to be a doctor. Just a few words: but several uses of wish have come out, and it will be much more impressive to write them down. This is much more interesting and relaxing than memorizing the usage of wish. It doesn't take much time to learn English. Walking 10 minutes can practice oral English. You can read English novels for a while after dinner and listen to English for a few minutes before going to bed, which can make you have a better rest ... As long as you spend some time practicing English every day, your English score will definitely improve quickly. Memorizing English words skills 1, recursively remembering Ebbinghaus forgetting curve The human brain is a treasure trove of memory. What the human brain has experienced, the problems it has thought about, the feelings and emotions it has experienced, and the actions it has practiced can all be remembered. For example, words, phrases, sentences and even articles in English learning are all accomplished by memory. There is a process from "memory" to "memory", including memory, retention, cognition and memory. Many people only pay attention to the memory effect at that time in the process of learning English. I don't know, if you want to learn and remember well, you have to work hard and simply pay attention to the memory effect at that time. Ignoring the later retention and recognition, it is impossible to achieve good results. In information processing, memory is the process of encoding, storing and extracting input information. From the perspective of information processing, the first learning and reciting of English is only a process of inputting codes. People's memory ability is amazing in physiology. It can store 10 15 bits (bytes). However, only 10% of everyone's memory treasure house has been excavated, and there is still more memory space. This is because some people only pay attention to the immediate effect of memory, but ignore the bigger problem in memory-that is, the firmness of memory. That involves the law of memory forgetting that is often said in psychology. 1. Ebbinghaus's memory law curve explains that there is a famous German psychologist named hermann ebbinghaus (1850- 1909). After he published his experimental report in 1885, memory research became one of the most studied fields in psychology. Ebbinghaus was the first person to discover the law of memory forgetting. As far as we know, memory retention is different in time, including short-term memory and long-term memory. The process of our usual memory is like this: the input information becomes a short-term memory after being studied by people's attention process, but if it is not reviewed in time, these remembered things will be forgotten and reviewed in time. These short-term memories will become people's long-term memories and stay in the brain for a long time. So, for us, what is forgetting? Forgetting is what we remember. We can't recognize it, and we can't recall it, or we mistakenly recognize it or remember it. These are forgetfulness. Ebbinghaus took himself as the test object when he did this experiment. He came to some conclusions about memory. He chose some meaningless syllables, that is, many letter combinations that can't spell words, such as ASWW, CFHHJ, IKIKMB, RFYJBC and so on. After self-testing, he got some data. Then, Ebbinghaus drew a curve according to these points, which is a very famous curve that reveals the law of forgetting: Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. In the picture, the vertical axis represents the amount of knowledge remembered in learning, the horizontal axis represents time (days), and the curve represents the changing law of memory. This curve tells people that forgetting in learning is regular and the process of forgetting is unbalanced. It's not fixed to lose a few in one day and a few in the next day. The speed of forgetting in the initial stage of memory is very fast, and then it gradually slows down. Time is long, almost no longer forgotten. This is the development law of forgetting, that is, the principle of "fast first and then slow". Observing this forgetting curve, you will find that after one day, if you don't review quickly, only 25% of the original knowledge is left. As time goes by, the speed of forgetting will slow down and the number of forgetting will decrease. Someone did an experiment. Two groups of students learn a text. Group A reviews it shortly after learning, while Group B does not review it. After a week, group A retained 83% and group B retained 33%. The average forgetting rate of group B is higher than that of group A.. Second, different materials have different forgetting curves. Moreover, Ebbinghaus also found that memorizing 12 meaningless syllables requires an average of 16.5 repetitions. In order to remember 36 meaningless chapters, it needs to be repeated 54 times; Reciting six poems with 480 syllables only needs to be repeated 8 times on average! This experiment tells us that anyone who understands knowledge can remember it quickly, comprehensively and firmly. Otherwise, rote memorization is also thankless. Therefore, it is easier to remember meaningful materials, while meaningless materials take more energy to remember and are not easy to recall in the future. So Ebbinghaus forgetting curve is a curve about forgetting, and it is also aimed at meaningless syllables. Compared with other materials, Ebbinghaus drew different forgetting curves of different materials, but they were basically the same. Therefore, Ebbinghaus's experiment fully proves to us that we should review diligently when studying, and the better the understanding effect of memory, the slower it will be forgotten. Third, different people have different Ebbinghaus memory curves-personalized Ebbinghaus The Ebbinghaus memory curve above Ebbinghaus is a curve generated by different memory data after a lot of tests in the laboratory, and it is a group law with * * * *. This memory curve does not take into account the individual's personality characteristics. But to seek the law of memory at the balance point. But the rules of memory may vary from person to person. Because of our different physiological characteristics and life experiences, we may have different memory habits, memory methods and memory characteristics. Law can only play a catalytic role in the transformation of the world by natural persons. If it conforms to everyone's memory characteristics, it is like sailing against the current, a thousand miles a day; If it goes against the characteristics of personal memory, the memory effect will be greatly reduced. Therefore, we should find our own Ebbinghaus memory curve according to everyone's different characteristics. 2. How to make up your mind to learn English and persevere? As a language skill, anyone can master it through a lot of training and practice. Generally speaking, the principle of English learning is to take the lead in listening and speaking and keep up with reading and writing. Li Yang advocates Crazy English. First, I built up my confidence that I could learn English well. Then I imitated many sentences, practiced crazily and read aloud. Finally, I spoke English freely. His method is very effective in improving my oral English. Professor Zhong Daolong began to learn English at the age of 45, and went abroad as an interpreter a year later, which created the reverse learning method of learning English, that is, reverse distress, reverse desire and reverse speed. He also suggested that learning English should follow listening and writing. His method emphasizes listening and writing down everything he hears. In particular, his learning spirit is the best. He used more than a dozen tape recorders to learn English. You can imagine how much English he listened to. The used ballpoint pen core is almost full of a can. You can imagine how much he wrote. In a year and a half, he has accumulated about 3000 hours of spare-time English learning time, which means that he will spare several hours to learn English every day. If we do as he does, we will certainly learn English well. The most important thing is persistence. As long as we can make up our minds and insist on learning English for at least one hour every day, we will certainly gain something in the end. Pay attention to methods and make up your mind step by step. Also pay attention to learning methods. Sometimes you will choose different learning methods according to your own situation and different learning purposes, but you must learn English step by step. You must master the basic knowledge, that is, correct pronunciation, basic vocabulary, basic sentence patterns and basic grammar. (1) You must test your pronunciation and pronounce every phonetic symbol correctly. Especially those phonemes that are easily confused, master the international phonetic symbols as soon as possible and try to master some pronunciation rules as soon as possible. Mastering pronunciation rules is very useful for memorizing and spelling words. (2) It is difficult for learners to master a certain number of English words. Learning words should be mastered from three aspects: form, sound and meaning, and attention should be paid to the polysemy and various usages of words. We should learn some word-formation knowledge to enlarge our vocabulary. To learn words, we should learn in language materials, combine phrases, read through articles, and remember words vividly. Memorized words are hard to remember. Before reading and speaking, listen repeatedly, and reflect the meaning and rhythm of words and sentences when listening. Think about the spelling and sentence structure of words, and learn grammar rules in combination. (3) Master basic grammar. Grammar is also very important in English learning. It can help us master the basic rules of English, remember the dead grammar rules through examples or language phenomena, and master the living rules through doing a lot of exercises. In a word, learning English should be practiced through listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, not only focusing on quantity, but also on quality, especially the accuracy and proficiency of basic knowledge. Only after a lot of practice can practice make perfect and use it freely. Preview in advance, as a student, preview the text to be learned in advance before each class. First try to spell words with phonetic symbols, or listen and compare them repeatedly with supporting tapes. If you are not sure, mark it and pay attention to the pronunciation of the class teacher. Also remember the Chinese meaning and part of speech of words. Preview the text with notes or tutoring materials, find out what you don't understand, and be aware of it. Pay attention to these places when the teacher lectures. In short, the purpose of preview is to be familiar with what you want to learn, to find out what you don't understand, to listen to the class with questions, and to be targeted. Actively cooperating with the classroom is the main place for teachers and students to learn, master and apply knowledge together. As a leading teacher, it is necessary to guide students to do a good job in classroom teaching, but it also needs the active cooperation of learners. Listen attentively, take notes, practice seriously and think positively in class. Problems arising in the preview should be raised to the teacher, and the problems taught by the teacher should be clarified first. Take notes after class, think over these questions repeatedly, and grasp the key points, difficulties and test sites that the teacher said. In short, we should listen more, watch more, speak more, think more, and mobilize a variety of senses in class. Finish your homework and find out the problem. After each class, you should finish your homework carefully. When you do your homework, don't look at the answers to the questions in the reference books. Check the answers after you finish. Ask questions that you don't understand in your homework in the next class. Doing homework is a very important link in English learning. It is a process of digesting and consolidating knowledge. Be sure to finish the prescribed homework carefully, use your pen in written homework, use your mouth in oral homework, practice your ears and improve your listening. After listening and reading the text, you'd better recite some wonderful paragraphs. In short, we should do more exercises and must not be lazy. Review in time. What you have learned by consolidating your knowledge will gradually be forgotten over time, but it is normal for you to forget in the process of learning a language. There is no need to affect your confidence and determination to learn English well because of forgetting. The problem is how to reduce the degree of forgetting. Be good at analogy, sum up your own knowledge, compare and contact the newly learned knowledge with the related knowledge learned in the past horizontally and vertically, establish an error file and deepen your impression. In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, most of our knowledge and skills are acquired through repetition, and timely review is very necessary for memory. Learning English means practicing every day and repeating basic sentence patterns, common vocabulary and basic grammar. The process of learning English is also a process of resisting forgetting. In short, as long as you can make up your mind to study, pay attention to learning methods, preview before class, listen carefully, finish your homework and review in time, you will certainly learn English well. To learn English well and communicate with foreigners, you must be proficient in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The order of importance is listening, speaking, reading and writing. First, the importance of listening, speaking, reading and writing: the importance of listening and speaking is self-evident. Reading is to understand all kinds of knowledge and improve thinking, while writing is to improve the ability of language expression and language organization, and at the same time to trigger deeper thinking and make thinking more advanced. That is, you are smarter. You can focus on cultivating the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing in different time periods according to your own preferences. 1. Listening strategies 1) Intensive listening: suitable for short passages. Listen extensively for the first time, then understand sentence by sentence, listen sentence by sentence and write it down completely. If you really don't understand, read the textbook and then listen to this sentence. If you don't understand, listen to it several times. After reading it, listen completely until you can understand it easily. 2) Listen first: suitable for short or long articles. Listen to the text first and repeat it several times. If it is long, choose the simplest words and sentences at the most appropriate time and write down the main idea. If it's short, try to write down every sentence. When you basically understand, open the book and read the text. When reading, pay attention to what you didn't understand just now, understand all the sentences and sort out the context. Then close the book and listen again until you can understand it. 3) Extensive listening: If you don't understand, just listen more, and sometimes you can talk nonsense. 4) Listen to English programs and watch English movies. Note: When listening to the dialogue, write down different characters in different places, and don't mix them together. 2. Spoken strategy 1) blurt out 2) Read the phonetic symbols correctly. Read the intonation If you want to blurt it out, you can practice it in some ways. A memorize: when you get an article, read it first, remember to translate and understand it in your mother tongue, and then repeat it in Chinese. Be sure to know the relationship between the upper and lower parts of the article like the back of your hand (don't memorize it, otherwise the effect will be very different). At this time, you can throw away your mother tongue and recite it directly in English. You can recite it a few more times. You can blurt it out by reciting it repeatedly every once in a while. There is a big difference between reciting and blurting out. Only by spending a lot of time reciting repeatedly on the basis of memorization can we achieve the degree of blurting out. B Find some common spoken English and write it down by yourself, and master some in every occasion, focusing on the sentences you need, such as work. After you have mastered it, you should repeat it and remember it once in a while. Remember that it is better to recite less than to remember less in memory. But remember to be very skilled. When you see a phenomenon or thing or scene or feel it, you should express it in English at the first time. D create a topic or scene by yourself and talk to yourself. Find a foreigner or go to a chat room or other opportunities to chat with others in English. Note: Sometimes you can combine listening and speaking with some good articles and turn them into your own articles. Listen carefully or repeat in Chinese after listening first. And you know the article like the back of your hand, then you can recite it directly in English thinking without your mother tongue, recite it several times, and then blurt it out again and again at regular intervals. 3. Reading strategy: the speed and accuracy of reading. 1) reading novels, works, etc. is too long: training language sense, speed reading can also be used to properly understand a few words and phrases. This kind of articles are generally based on relatively simple words and phrases. 2) Read the long chapters in the text (the number of words is subject to high school): The first time, speed and sense of language are the main points. By paying attention to conjunctions, the relationship between topic sentences and ending sentences, the genre and context of the article, we can quickly understand the general idea of the article. 23. Try to solve the difficulty again, remember the words and phrases of the sentence, sort out the author's thoughts and find out which one. Find out what genre is the purpose. Ways to master the genre quickly: a narrative: always explain the time and place of the characters and events at the beginning, and then describe the reasons for the events in detail. B argument: the author puts forward the argument first, and then makes a comparative analysis or demonstration with examples to draw a conclusion. C explains the object that the author of the article first puts forward. Then explain it from different aspects. 4. Reading strategy: 1) It's best not to recite a long article or understand it carefully, just know the general meaning. 2) while listening to the tape, imitate it, preferably long. 5. Writing strategy: It is best to keep a diary and write a composition that you are interested in or very concerned about (preferably a narrative. Occasionally abbreviate an article (only an abbreviated article, and then you have to memorize it), or write a review (either evaluate how this article is written, evaluate the people or things in this article, or express the social reality through the author of this article), or write a sequel (an article that interests you), or write a letter, or rewrite an article (after reading a good article, rewrite your own article, writing guidance: 2) Read excellent compositions, accumulate excellent sentences and think about the author's writing ideas. 3) Avoid Chinglish and cultivate a rigorous atmosphere. And use punctuation correctly. Writing skills: 1) Write a sentence. Simplicity of language: replace phrases with words and clauses with phrases to avoid structural repetition. For example, do you know someone who spoke at the meeting clearly instead of you? The speakers at the meeting correctly used subordinate structures, such as the world-famous Forbidden City in the center of Beijing. Located in the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City is famous all over the world. The first sentence focuses on the location of the Forbidden City, and the second sentence focuses on its popularity in the world. 3) Write a trigger structure, such as a car coming. If you come by car, it looks ordinary. 4) Repetition: It can be emphasized and sometimes used repeatedly, for example, Morey is short. Very short. (However, in some places, structural repetition should be avoided, and repetition here plays an important role. I'm just ignorant, not very clear. Please give me more advice if you know anything. ) 5) Focus on using words or sentences. For example, what are you talking about? Before writing a good article, you can think about the overall idea, make an outline of the topic, and then choose the position of the topic sentence, which can be located at the beginning of the sentence and come straight to the point. Located at the end of the sentence, it makes readers have suspense and encourages readers to read; Sentences are also good, but they should be used properly and appear natural. After determining the orientation, choose the main points (including striking facts, events and statistical data) or the doubtful points (questions and disputes) to compare (leading to the theme through comparison) and write a topic sentence. For example, this sentence is controversial. After writing, see if the topic sentence is clear. 1. That is, whether the author of the topic sentence can see the exact theme of this paragraph at a glance. 2. See if the topic sentence can be expanded, so that there is a topic to talk about below. B extension sentence: be simple, that is, write around the theme and not deviate from the center. Be coherent, coherent and clear. The use of and but ... is very helpful for the coherence of the article. As well as the skills of the previous sentences, can be applied to extended sentences. 3. Conclusion: Stick to the theme. The main types are exclamatory sentences, interrogative sentences, summary sentences, figurative sentences, summary sentences and famous aphorisms. 6. Understand the appropriate cultural differences between China and Britain. 7. Learn proper English proverbs and sentences. Memorizing methods of words and phrases include: a remembering synonyms and antonyms; b remembering verbs, descriptions and noun forms of a word; C Remember similar words such as the word D Remember similar words such as (fruits and vegetables, clothes, body composition, different countries, daily necessities ...) E Remember words in various fields separately ... For example, when you are learning telephone English, learn telephone-related words F through articles to remember words and phrases F. As a group, remember a word-expanded phrase, such as take it out and take it out. 9. Singing: To learn to sing, it is best to translate the lyrics first, then read them fluently and emotionally, and finally recite them. The next step is ok, but it is easy to forget without previous training, so we should make a review strategy. 10. Review: including reviewing the back and reading the back: every word, phrase, phrase, sentence and article written in the notebook should be read and memorized once in a while. Forgetting is from fast to slow, and you have to remember it again in two hours. Remember it twice a day. After that, it is best to remember it every other day until a long-term memory is formed. For good phrases, sentences and articles, you should recite them repeatedly until you blurt them out, recite them again, and then find notes to review. Reading: all the articles you have read (preferably with tapes, you can read them later) should be arranged for a certain time. Preferably in the morning. I think all the materials I have read at ordinary times can be thrown aside. Of course, I should keep my articles, whether good or bad, and enjoy a little progress. 1 1. Of course, when you can keep learning English, be careful not to learn in the wrong direction. If we focus on the less important aspects of learning, knowledge is equivalent to wasting a lot of time. Therefore, it is very important to exchange learning methods with others and discuss your own learning methods with others, which can prevent you from learning in the wrong direction. Conclusion: Learning English depends on your interest, good methods, perseverance and as many ways as possible. Don't blindly improve reading or memorizing words ... it's boring and won't last long. Of course, everyone's learning situation is different, personality is different, experience is different, so the method is definitely different ... Don't find a study plan and method that suits you ... It's better to be complete, because only in this way, no matter what you do, or work, play, or do, when you suddenly settle down to learn English, you will know what you want to learn when you look at your notebook ... Besides, you will find articles to read. I think so, too. Of course, the above methods are based on your own investigation of a large number of materials and your own thinking, and are suitable for people who learn English by themselves. The main feature is a comprehensive summary of listening, speaking, reading and writing.