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How to choose a vocabulary book

First of all, we must be clear: what words should we try to memorize in the exam? If you want to take the GRE red book of Band 4, it will be of no use except the extreme contempt for the vocabulary level of Band 4 when you go to the examination room.

It doesn't matter which word book you choose for CET-4 and CET-6, as long as you don't make mistakes. Now all the books on the market are copied by Lao Yu, and others copy Lao Yu's. Little Red Book, Spark, and Zishu Rainbow's singing is no different. In the postgraduate market, various postgraduate institutions are trying their best. In these two markets, Xiaohongshu is basically tied with other vocabulary books. In foreign exams, especially in North America, Xiaohongshu took the top spot in the light of New Oriental. Lao Yu's little red book can sell nearly 6.5438+0 million copies every year, which naturally has his reasons.

The first principle of word book: if it is a non-GRE or GMAT vocabulary book, it is best to have example sentences for each word. These little red books are available. Take this as an example.

One more thing: the word book must have a lot of blanks, not too dense (except the portable version), and you need to apply a lot of ink on it, which I will talk about in detail below. Some students have finished reciting the word book, but the book is basically brand new, so the effect is extremely poor.

How to cultivate the interest in memorizing words

How to recite words is a technical problem. Technology is always a detail, and those who achieve great things must be informal. Strategy is always more important than tactics. So I want to talk about how to cultivate the interest in memorizing words first. The greater your subjective interest, the less pain (or pleasure) you have in memorizing words.

The first is a sense of accomplishment. Whenever the landlord is reading or listening to an audio book, he sees a word I just recited and remembers the general meaning. You will have this feeling, a strong desire to let others know. Of course, I am very restrained in reality, otherwise I will probably be beaten. I think if we can have this kind of consciousness, it is not difficult to recite words. It's better to express this feeling, but only when you find the right person and want to learn English well, you are actually confused and have no determination. If you meet Griles, it will only be a self-defeating.

And some children's shoes like to recite words and do problems at the same time, which I think is not good. I usually read the little red book twice before I start doing what I should do. I think the effect is better than doing it at the same time After all, the sense of accomplishment when you encounter the memorized words in reading practice is far greater than the frustration when you don't understand them and look them up again.

Again: a sense of accomplishment is very important.

The second method is comparison-narcissism. More specifically, I think my pronunciation is pure and charming. Then I won't feel fine and talk to myself. I appreciate a few words. Usually reciting words will also be unconsciously pronounced, which virtually strengthens the three-dimensional memory of words. Some people like English sounds very much, so they usually imitate them more, give up VOA and listen to BBC, begin to appreciate English dramas, and later even advance to The Economist. Usually, I try to read all the words with an English accent. Perhaps the subjective motivation is obscene, but the effect is very good: in the end, the same word may only be understood by ordinary people, and I can even recognize it by conditioned reflex when listening.

Those who take selfies every day, you have great potential for this trait ~ ~ ~

If it's a pity that you don't have the above two qualities, your understanding of the following technical parts will certainly not be affected, but you will suffer a little more than the above two people.

How to master more than 90% words?

Nobody asked you to really count. Moreover, memorizing a word more than twice will produce a kind of position memory, that is, you will remember the word first, which is the penultimate word in the lower right corner of a page. Sometimes you can't even remember its meaning, and you will even remember its position. Unfortunately, this can't be overcome unless you buy another book in the opposite order, or sort it according to the meaning. At present, when I see a difficult word, I will first reflect its position and then its meaning (if I remember it).

The general standard is: each page, covering your meaning, can not exceed two words that can't remember the meaning. This is the minimum standard (CET-4 and CET-6), not the average. That is to say, there cannot be two pages (above the level of going abroad). It depends on personal standards. See if you can use it.

technical article

I hope to enter the technical paste link. Now you can really recite words.

First intensive reading. All the words should be read carefully except those that you know the meaning at a glance and can blurt out the pronunciation in a conditioned way.

If I only use a word "Guo" to describe this process, everyone will definitely be disappointed in me. ...

The landlord is a good beginning and a good end;

The importance of different words in the exam can be roughly divided into: verb >; Adjective > noun > adverb. So once the time is not enough, you can review according to the above priority.

Reason: Verbs are the most important. You don't need to know that disgusting noun that you can't even pronounce a word. As long as you know the meaning of the verb and add it to the context, you can basically understand the logic of this sentence (the degree of understanding depends on personal skills), and those nouns are replaced by initials. Anyway, except GRE, there is no such thing as "which of the following nouns does not belong to the category of nucleotides?" Topics like this;

Secondly, adjectives that frequently appear in reading are basically closely related to the tone of the article, the author's attitude and options. If an adjective at the beginning of a sentence can't even distinguish between positive and negative meanings, what else can the author's attitude analyze? It's best to know, but if you can't remember it for a while, you must have a general impression of the pros and cons!

Then there are nouns, and the last thing is adverbs. For these words, we only need to know the degree of positive and negative sum, but the general adverbs are adjectives +ly, so the understanding of adverbs is not very meaningful.

Theoretical methods of memorizing words

There is no doubt that it is a root affix. Because that's how words are produced. It is much easier to understand long words separately. These words have been mentioned in many books, so I won't go into details. But good habits are not limited to these, including associative memory, etymological memory, synonyms and antonyms contrast and so on. There is a general principle: putting words with the same characteristics together can effectively save your underdeveloped brain capacity.

Give a chestnut:

I'm sorry I can only give you a few examples, because it's difficult for the electronic version to write and scribble at will. Many processes that can be represented by a horizontal line and an arrow on the blackboard need to be clearly expressed in n words here, just like this sentence itself. )

P98- Dichotomy (N. Dichotomy), I believe that when you encounter this word, the mortality rate can reach 100%. Look at the phonetic symbols. The stress is on the second syllable (stress and phonetic symbols are very important. If I give them all to you, there will still be trouble. Many methods are based on stereoscopic memory). Then when you leave the word, it should look like this: di'cho/tomy, marked with stress and root separator, -tom- cut, cut, -di- about two. Cut the chessboard horizontally and split it in half-one in two. This understanding may be much simpler.

Give a few more examples: photo/composition, IR/ reversibility, dump/ster, common/er, infra/red. .......

It is painful to use the root at first, which is equivalent to memorizing redundant words, but once you are familiar with the general meaning range of the basic root (for example, -de- means negative, downward; -gen- stands for production, -re- stands for the opposite, re ...) More than half of the words in a word book can be easily recalled through internal logical relations, just like Lego bricks. If you use the correct root and the correct prefix and suffix, the combination is the correct word. So let's take a long-term view.

It would be disgusting to dig deep into the roots, because there are not only Latin roots, but also Greek roots and Roman roots. For example: -ped- pedagogy (pedagogy), pedagogne (educator), pediatrician (pediatrician), encyclopedia ...-DEM-<; People >, democracy, people; -ortho-& lt； Correct > orthodox, right position ... At the same time, different roots have maddening variants and falsetto in the development process.

What kind of words are the most difficult to recite?

Some people begin to feel pain when they see a long prefix and find it extremely difficult. In fact, the longer a word is, the easier it is to recite, because its root affixes are definitely the most. As the saying goes, there are many ghosts in the incense burner. Take a very extreme example:

Ultramicro-picsilocanoconosis of lung.

Do you find it difficult? Actually, not at all. Even if you see it for the first time, you still have a great chance to understand its meaning. A word must be read from beginning to end. The prefix is pneu m-:; The suffix is -sis, such as Arthur, schistosomiasis and tuberculosis .............................................................................................................................................................. This word means silicosis. ) That's enough. You know so much information, there is basically no obstacle to GRE filling in the blanks.

So, recite the root affixes ~ ~

One more thing about root affixes: this is not accurate. After so many years of language development, the same root is likely to have multiple seemingly unrelated meanings, which requires you to remember more words to consolidate the sensitivity of the root. The two complement each other.

What is really hard to remember are short and pithy words, especially verbs, which are only 3-5 letters long and have no roots: delve, efficient, curb, cult, irate, nexus, patch, etc. These words are the ones that need the most attention.

In addition, if the sense of language is good enough, there are also some ways to vomit blood: delicious is 100% of the words, which have been deeply reflected in your minds. It has a synonym: relish. Try to compare their pronunciation (especially/∫/). Do you think after watching with relish, you will have a delicious feeling more or less?

(Comment added) For example, when I saw the word goodbye after crisp, I felt that the spelling itself had a crunchy feeling.

(low-end players should use it with caution).

Intensive memory article

How to strengthen the memory of words?

Synonyms and antonyms.

In fact, many words in English can basically express the same meaning, but the difference is only different levels. Very important and extremely significant are exactly the same, but the scores written in the composition are absolutely different. Don't be lazy when reciting words. Mark synonyms and antonyms beside them. More effective are synonyms and antonyms of the same difficulty level. For example, the GMAT little red book, I will record the words that have appeared in the book and expressed similar meaning on the title page:

Cautious: cautious (the most commonly used keyword), cautious, careful, studious, cautious, charming, cautious, cautious. ...

Despise: despise, despise, despise, despise, despise, despise. ..

Amazing: amazing, amazing, amazing. ...

Poisonous: poisonous (the most indigenous word), poisonous, poisonous, poisonous, poisonous, poisonous, poisonous, poisonous.

This is equivalent to effectively extracting the common factor from the similarity of these words, saving your brain capacity. At the same time, next to each word, mark other synonyms, such as caution above. You'd better write down caution and caution beside caution, so that you can recite one word, which is equivalent to five or six words, and the others are similar. It is best not to write Chinese meaning. When you see it, you will force yourself to recall it, and if you think about it several times, you will be conditioned.

But generally, you don't have to write everything. Every word in Little Red Book has a hint of synonyms behind it, so you'd better think of another word, such as the first word at the beginning, discard-I'll mark it as issued, which is the word P277, and I'll also write it next to the issued word at the back, so that the probability of remembering the two will be much improved.

Be sure to paint more, and it is not limited to synonyms and antonyms. You can write anything you think will improve your memory. There is no universal rule. I will also remember similar words together: intake, congestion, digestion; You should also put the "crown" next to it ... it is absolutely unforgivable not to draw or not to draw.

To sum up, recite slowly for the first time and carefully. When you meet familiar words, you should look ahead and see if you have recited them.

The last article talked about how to recite a word book for the first time. Of course, synonyms and antonyms can also be replaced equivalently. As long as they have something in common, they can all be written together, as long as they are effective.

When reading for the first time, you should mark the words that are difficult to recite, cross and draw a little star and Pikachu. Whatever, I usually tick+little star+underline. It's just a red, blue and black pen (of course, red is the most eye-catching and black is the most easily overlooked). This is my own method, but I don't think it's the most difficult words to recite, such as strep, but the most important words, such as specious, cautious and plunging. These words appear in a large number of original English magazines, and among these words, verbs and adjectives are the most important. (High-end players recommend all-in-one machines)

Then when you recite it the second time and the third time, if you can't remember it, continue to mark it. In this way, after reciting a few more times, you can clearly locate the words you have been unable to remember (the degree of forgetting is also clear at a glance)

Do words need to be able to read?

Personally, I think, if it's just for the exam, you don't need to be able to read at all, but reading will help you remember the meaning and use it in the exam (a little tangled). Many long words are not too difficult to read, but it is difficult to blurt out. If you don't want to just mix CET-4 and CET-6, and want to express your views and opinions clearly in English and native English speakers, it is necessary to blurt them out. Take me for example. I wanted to say something at first, but I couldn't say it at the same time, so I went back to check. When I think of them again, I may know them. You don't need to look at them casually when you think about it when you are free. Keep at it, every little makes a mickle, and you will soon get to the point where you blurt out the word at the thought.

Self-test: encyclopedia, detective, at the same time (if you can't think of it, you have to blurt it out)

Need to practice spelling?

Basically don't need it! If the writing vocabulary from the test-oriented perspective is much worse than the reading vocabulary, then it is enough to practice the spelling of the writing vocabulary. Many slightly more complicated words may even be misspelled by native speakers.

However, in this way, your memory of words mostly stays at the level of seeing and knowing the meaning. Chances are that you can't spell, which is normal.

If you want to practice spelling, talk about QQ in English. On campus, choose advanced vocabulary. If you use it too much, it will naturally become muscle memory. No matter what the other party says, China people and China people deserve to be struck by lightning when they speak English, except that practicing spelling will not help you (if the level difference is not big).

This is the basic macro method. Don't expect any shortcuts to memorizing words. There is a shortcut: it depends on your nature to recite words as a pleasure. In addition, no experience and method is universally applicable. What works for us doesn't mean it works for you. In short, it is best to find the one that suits you best.

I would recommend an intensive word class in New Oriental Newspaper. It's not the difference between memorizing more words, but the feeling of roots.

Finally, it's useless to read these words if you don't want to recite them once.