10 ways to remember English words

Lead: English word memory is a positive brain activity process. How can we help the brain to remember quickly? Let's get to know each other.

1. Spelling

If you master the relationship between correct spelling and pronunciation, you can spell words correctly according to their pronunciation.

For example, we know that the vowel letter o is pronounced [+(] when syllables are stressed. According to this rule, words like go, hope, home, note, etc. You can recite it as easy as blowing off dust. There is also a pronunciation rule: after o, if it is m, n, v, th, o, it can be pronounced as [λ]. According to this rule, in words such as mother, some, come, dove, done, etc., we will not write O as U, and give another example of vowel combination. Ay reads [ei]. All the words with the letter combination of ay in middle school textbooks, such as say, day, way, pay, ray, may, lay, play, spray, etc., are not only easy to pronounce, but also easy to spell. Of course, there are many exceptions in rules of english pronunciation, and it is not easy to remember them. But in order to help remember words, it is useful to take some time to remember some common pronunciation rules.

2. Homophonic method

Although some linguists think that this homophonic memorization method is unscientific and is not conducive to learners' correct mastery of pronunciation, the practice of learning a foreign language proves that. At the beginning of learning a foreign language, beginners who have not mastered the characteristics of word formation and the rules of word memory can really remember some difficult words effectively by using homophonic method. However, a very important problem that must be paid attention to when memorizing words with homophonic method is that this method can only be used as a homophonic association method to enhance and deepen memory, but it can never be used as a basis for imitating pronunciation. Instead, it must be read and memorized according to the standard pronunciation of words to avoid this memory from interfering with correct pronunciation.

The basic principle of homophonic memorizing words is to find a homophonic sound similar to the pronunciation of foreign words in Chinese, and this homophonic sound must be interestingly related to the meaning expressed by some people, things, things or words, thus making learners curious about things related to homophonic words, thus suddenly stimulating the cerebral cortex, and then leaving an unforgettable impression on learners' brains, even for life. This is also the beauty of this homophonic memory method.

example

Mouth [mauθ] Mouth [Lenovo: the mouth that speaks recklessly] Mao [Lenovo: Mao is really "black ammonia"] Speak [t&; [k] Talking about [Lenovo: talking to guests] Singing [Mr.] Singing [Lenovo: singing with a voice] Wife [waif] Wife [Lenovo: I caress my wife] Thinking [θiRk] Thinking [Lenovo: pondering] Behind [bi's hand]. Qi [Lenovo: Qi can kill people means "damn"] Leave [Li: v] Leave [Lenovo: "Leave me" means leave]

3. Prefix method

Prefix memorization is a method of memorizing words with the help of an important foreign morpheme-prefix. Remembering words by prefix means grouping words with the same prefix and connecting them in series with the same prefix as the main line of memory.

example

A- (added before nouns, verbs and adjectives to form adverbs, including in, on, at, to, by, of, with) at the top; The indifferent leaves on the top evaporate loudly and correctly side by side, evaporate.

Adapt; Adapt; adapt to

Strong adaptability to add; increase

Adhesion, adsorption, flattery; Back; Come again, come again; After that; Analogous) re-baptism theory re-baptism theory; To recover after recovery (wind, airflow, etc.). ), assimilation ① strong ② * * Analogy is similar; Give a similar explanation by analogy; Make similar reasoning analogy similar; Analogy (1) Analogy (2) Memories of homologous languages.

4. Root method

The root is the core of foreign words and an important morpheme to express the most basic meaning of words. Therefore, any word has a root. If different prefixes and suffixes are added to the same root according to word formation, words with different meanings with the root as the core meaning will be formed, which are called cognates. A simple example.

5. Suffix method

Suffix is an important part of foreign words, which not only represents the part of speech and part of speech, but also has different lexical meanings, such as:

The suffix of the English word millionaire -aire not only indicates that the word is a noun, but also indicates that it is a suffix that indicates a person. The suffix -an of the word "suburban" not only indicates that the word is an adjective, but also has the meanings of "belonging to …", "having the nature of …" and "belonging to …".

It can be seen that memorizing words according to the characteristics and laws of different suffixes and their lexical meanings is also an important means to improve the efficiency of word memory.

6. Structural method

The basic principle and method of memorizing words by word formation is to memorize words through structural analysis, anatomy and logical synthesis of word meanings on the basis of mastering a large number of word formation components and morphemes of foreign languages, such as prefixes, roots and suffixes.

The essence of this method is that the words to be memorized are first according to the root-suffix; Prefix-root-suffix; The first part of compound words-root-suffix; The first part of compound words-the second part of compound words; The first part of compound words-root-the second part of compound words; Root-the second part of the compound word is decomposed, and then the word is memorized according to the morpheme meaning of each component of the word. In this way, we can remember words with different structures, such as single words, double words and compound words.

When memorizing words by construction method, the following three steps should be followed: first, decompose the words to be memorized according to the above components. It should be noted here that the decomposition of words must be accurate. Some loanwords have no prefix and only consist of roots and suffixes. For example, the word dorm in English has only the root dorm- and the suffix-ant; However, some foreign words are composed of double prefixes or double roots and suffixes, or have no suffixes. For example, the word' he полври1000i й (stationary) in Russian is composed of two prefixes, he and no, so it must not be mistaken for he й when decomposing words. Another example is the word "aero -naut -ics" in English, which consists of two roots and suffixes: aere (sky)-naut (ship)-ics (science).

Below. We take typical words with complicated word formation as an example to illustrate. For example, if we want to remember the English word "anticarnivorous".

Step 1: According to the word structure, it is decomposed into: anti-carni-vor-ous. After the word is decomposed, we can know that it is composed of prefix+root+root+suffix.

Step 2: According to the meanings of the common English or Russian prefixes, roots and suffixes mentioned above, the decomposed components of the word "Duizhen" are combined with their morpheme meanings to separate the morpheme meanings of each component of the word: the prefix "anti" means "opposition"; The root-Carney-means "meat"; The root word-vor-means "food"; The suffix -ous means "adjective suffix".

The last step: combine the morpheme meanings of each part of the word through logical synthesis to form a logically complete meaning, which means "anti-meat, anti-morpheme".

More importantly, this word structure memorization method can be used not only to memorize words, but also to infer many new words or forget the meaning of words when reading or translating the original text. Therefore, it can greatly reduce the times of looking up the dictionary and effectively improve the reading and translation speed.

For example, when reading or translating the original text, we will come across such a phrase: a bactericidal, and its new word is an adjective, in which the meaning of the word a-gent is known, which means "medicine", but the meaning of the word bacteriological in the phrase is unknown. Now we don't look it up in the dictionary. It's not difficult to get its meaning through the above deconstruction. Firstly, the word is decomposed into: bacteri-cid-al, and then its morpheme meaning is "corresponding": bacteri means "bacteria"; Cid means "kill"; Al (adjective suffix) means "…". Finally, the morpheme meanings separated from each part of the word are logically synthesized to get the meaning of "sterilization", and then the obtained meaning is matched with the meaning of the word medicament, and the obtained phrase means "killing [killing] microbial medicament" in Chinese. To sum up, in the process of reading or translating, we can basically infer the meaning of most new words from the context.

7. Classification

Using classified memory words can give full play to the potential of the brain system to remember words comprehensively, and its advantages are:

(1) Words in the same category have similar grammatical functions and structures, which are convenient for overall memory and mastery, and help to form a complete category concept for words.

(2) It is convenient for comparison and helps to master the similarities and differences of each word.

(3) It is convenient to concentrate vocabulary so as to use it flexibly.

(4) We can organize, systematize and classify the disorganized words we have mastered.

Classifying and memorizing words is like arranging and storing a wide variety of types in a word tray under a typewriter in an orderly way according to the radicals of Chinese character structure, and taking them at any time when necessary.

Generally, learners can classify and memorize words according to the following categories: time, meeting, theme, college, major, sports, relatives, animals, plants, stationery, vegetables and fruits. ...

8. Group memory method

Write the words you want to remember in groups in your notebook. If you want to remember a ten-digit number 1 127772235, it is easy to remember as long as we write this number as 1 12-777-2235. This method is very effective in memorizing words. Suppose you want to remember twenty words, you can divide them into four groups, or you can divide a long word into several parts, such as selflessness, which can be written as un-self-ish-ness, so that you can remember the most words in the least time.

9. Corresponding methods

In foreign languages, there are some similar nouns representing men and women or men and women of different sexes. When memorizing words, if we associate a male noun representing human or animal with the corresponding female noun, we can also tap the potential of associative memory in the brain. For example, when we remember the word "father", we can also associate it with the corresponding female noun "mother". In this way, the corresponding memory word can remember two words at the same time, thus doubling the efficiency of memorizing words.

example

Grandfather's grandfather-grandmother's father-mother's mother's uncle-menstruation's son-daughter's brother-sister's man-woman groom-bride's husband-wife's wife young man [boy]-girl young woman] grandchildren; Granddaughter boy-(primary) girl boy student (primary school) boy student-female student (primary school) female student principal (primary school) male teacher-female teacher (primary school) female teacher.

In addition, the corresponding memory method can also be used to remember words with the same corresponding relationship although there is no gender difference.

10. Antisense method

Everything has relativity, such as fast and slow, high and low, good and bad, big and small, bright and dark, hot and cold, up and down, left and right, and so on. Antisense memory method is a learning method to tap the memory potential of the brain by using foreign language learners' antisense association of things. This method of memorizing words can make learners' memory of words rise to the logical height of antonym symmetry. All adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns with antonym symmetry can be memorized in this way.

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