20 ways to remember English words Author: Source: Learning Methods Network Date: 23-4-9,2005:12: 36 It is generally believed that to master a foreign language, you have to go through three levels (pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar) and cut off five levels (listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation) Relatively speaking, the English vocabulary is large, with a total vocabulary of at least 600,000, a practical vocabulary of 8,000 to 1000 and a basic vocabulary of 4,000. Generally speaking, there is no shortcut to mastering English words, but we can choose some different ways to remember English words. Here are 20 ways to remember English words. 1. Logical memory: Memorize words through the internal logical relationship of words and the external logical relationship between words. (1) Think of a few letters as one, for example, "The lights are burning all night". (2) the old exterior and the new interior, such as: the bridge is regarded as the ridge of the bridge, and the ridge is regarded as Sharp Harper. (3) the new exterior and the old interior, such as: cleave "split" for cleave tact and wit for tact 2. Associative memory: (1) Phonological association, that is, memorizing words according to pronunciation rules. (2) the relationship between form and meaning, such as: eye regards two E's as two eyes. Bananas regard A as bananas. Birds regard B and D as two wings. (3) Onomatopoeia words are associated with actual sounds, such as Gong Gong Gu Gu Gu Gu. 3. Classified memory: classify and remember words such as animals and plants. You can find a classified dictionary as a reference. 4. Card memory: Make your own word card and keep it with you to remember words, and write down the shape, part of speech, meaning, phonetic symbols, collocation, example sentences, etc. 5. Sensory memory: When memorizing words, don't just use one sense, but use as many senses as possible, such as listening, reading, writing, watching and remembering. 6. Software Memory: Software remembers words, such as Happy Memorizing Words, Pioneer Memorizing Words, I Love Memorizing Words, etc. 7. Word formation memory: Using word formation, memorizing words by analyzing root, prefix, suffix, derivation and synthesis. 8. Graphic memory: The advantage of using graphic memory is the intuitive combination of meaning, form and object. You can find an English graphic dictionary as a reference. 9. Game memory: Play games with your group and remember words in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. 10. Song memory: Memorize words by singing English songs. There are many English songs in the software such as Listening to Overlord and Listening to Superman, with lyrics and translations. 1 1. Reading memory: Memorize words by reading English articles and novels. , and pay attention to the appropriate difficulty. 12. Synonym memory: By memorizing words and synonyms together, we can accurately understand the meaning of words, so we don't need to pay attention to their differences in meaning. 13. Antisense memory: words are memorized by antonyms together, which expands the meaning of words. 14. dictionary memory: that is, memorizing a dictionary, which is a forced memory method. Its disadvantage is that it is easy to forget and only remembers the meaning of words in isolation. Can be used as a short-term strengthening means. 15. Review memory: Remember the words, and you will soon forget them. Review every once in a while to consolidate the words you have learned. 16. Trademark memory: remember words anytime and anywhere through the trademarks and advertisements you see. 17. Contrastive memory: (1) English-Chinese pairs such as mom's cigar and beer. (2) Comparison between simple numbers and complex numbers, such as: goodgoods, spirts, woodwoods. (3) comparison of homophones, such as: rightwrite eyeI (4) comparison of yin and yang, such as: actractreshost18. Understanding memory: by correctly understanding the original meaning, extended meaning and figurative meaning of words. For example, second is "second", which comes from the ancient sexting method. Minute and second are two-level division, so second is also "second", which can be further understood as "auxiliary". This method is especially suitable for those polysemous words. 19. contact memory: it is best not to remember words in isolation, but to contact related things as much as possible. (1) Contact the main idea and context of the learned article. (2) Contact phrases and collocations. 20. Comprehensive memory: It is best to use multiple methods to remember words, not just one, and take advantage of various memory methods.