Most people learning a language often give up too early, problems are usually in there methods, getting poor result with high price, wasting much effort and time. Some people said that learning a foreign language is a very time-consuming and go against what we called "Cost-Effectiveness".
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Just consider , there are many people proficient in 7 to 8 languages, some people can handle even more than 10, on the contrary, have you ever seen someone who is both a doctor, lawyer, and even an architect at the same time? Generally speaking, getting a bachelor degree require 3 to 4 years, but learning a language, if very diligent, you can accomplish within a few months, the key is a series of effective strategies.
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Here are a few important principles we often overlooked :
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Just consider , there are many people proficient in 7 to 8 languages, some people can handle even more than 10, on the contrary, have you ever seen someone who is both a doctor, lawyer, and even an architect at the same time? Generally speaking, getting a bachelor degree require 3 to 4 years, but learning a language, if very diligent, you can accomplish within a few months, the key is a series of effective strategies.
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Here are a few important principles we often overlooked :
1. Familiar with Verbs at the beginning ---- Especially transitive verb. In an essay while there are a lot of words we are not familiar with, usually, we will guess the meaning according to other words we familiar with, therefore, the first priority is to know the highest frequent words, and then the hit rate would be higher. Suppose you want to open a store, you must choose the location with highest population, learning vocabulary, too, have to select which linked with other words most. For example: "I drink coffee", before "drink" the words "I" can be changed for "you", "him", "her", "teachers, "students", "cats", "dogs", etc., "coffee" can be changed for "tea", "water", "wine", "soup", etc. , on the contrary, "coffee" usually connected with "drinks" or "brew" only. learning the former first will be most effective.
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Besides, transitive verbs are the most important clues for guessing the meaning of the entire content, for example, having seen "drink", it might be indicated that its subject must be animal(or human), its object must be potable liquid. Other parts of speech hardly have this function.
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We use adjectives to modify nouns, adverb to modify verbs or adjectives, they play the roles in language as supporting characters, and transitive verbs are main characters, the core of the story. In the contents of a passage, clues are there verbs, whenever encountered with verbs like "driving", "collided", we know that this is a report of a traffic accident, with "submerged" or "flooded", "damaged" we know which is about floods, they are keywords. If I give you some nouns -"people" and "car", can you do the guessing? It may be people buying cars, people selling cars, people rent out cars, steal cars, people washing, or repairing cars, people drawing pictures of car, or taking photos of car......
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The most important fact is, the amount of common nouns are in the thousands(merely reading a menu is a tough job), but the amount of commonly used verbs is only 100 roughly, it is not difficult to be familiar with.
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Besides, transitive verbs are the most important clues for guessing the meaning of the entire content, for example, having seen "drink", it might be indicated that its subject must be animal(or human), its object must be potable liquid. Other parts of speech hardly have this function.
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We use adjectives to modify nouns, adverb to modify verbs or adjectives, they play the roles in language as supporting characters, and transitive verbs are main characters, the core of the story. In the contents of a passage, clues are there verbs, whenever encountered with verbs like "driving", "collided", we know that this is a report of a traffic accident, with "submerged" or "flooded", "damaged" we know which is about floods, they are keywords. If I give you some nouns -"people" and "car", can you do the guessing? It may be people buying cars, people selling cars, people rent out cars, steal cars, people washing, or repairing cars, people drawing pictures of car, or taking photos of car......
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The most important fact is, the amount of common nouns are in the thousands(merely reading a menu is a tough job), but the amount of commonly used verbs is only 100 roughly, it is not difficult to be familiar with.
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2. Building Long-term Memory only ---- Many people have been emigrated since there childhood, even no longer use their mother tongue for decades, did not forgot them, because they have already established a long-term memory, there are many long-term memories remain in your whole life. Cycling can be learned within a day, afterwards you can balanced forever. Don't build short-term memory, when you think you have learn a lot today, next week you will find you have retain nothing, then you want to learn that again, you have to start from scratch, similar to boiling water to 80 degrees and turn off the stove, until next time boil it again. In other words, originally one can finish the work once and for all, but now the task become an ever-repeated cycle, it is time-consuming and squander our lives.
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Anything become long-term memory can put them aside and they would take care of themselves, then you can learn something new. Firstly, study the most frequently used sentences of the language you want to learn, review the same material every day, continue in a week, then review once a week within a month, after a month or two review it once, then which will become your long-term memory.(around a 12 chapters material, or an hour or so of the recording) Or read the same novel or essays four or five times within a short period, or see a movie several times.(we use short-term memory only in the eve of exams, afterwards you can discard it.) .
2. Building Long-term Memory only ---- Many people have been emigrated since there childhood, even no longer use their mother tongue for decades, did not forgot them, because they have already established a long-term memory, there are many long-term memories remain in your whole life. Cycling can be learned within a day, afterwards you can balanced forever. Don't build short-term memory, when you think you have learn a lot today, next week you will find you have retain nothing, then you want to learn that again, you have to start from scratch, similar to boiling water to 80 degrees and turn off the stove, until next time boil it again. In other words, originally one can finish the work once and for all, but now the task become an ever-repeated cycle, it is time-consuming and squander our lives.
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Anything become long-term memory can put them aside and they would take care of themselves, then you can learn something new. Firstly, study the most frequently used sentences of the language you want to learn, review the same material every day, continue in a week, then review once a week within a month, after a month or two review it once, then which will become your long-term memory.(around a 12 chapters material, or an hour or so of the recording) Or read the same novel or essays four or five times within a short period, or see a movie several times.(we use short-term memory only in the eve of exams, afterwards you can discard it.) .
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3. Preparing Ready-made Sentences ---- Many people have vocab power but can't make sentences. Traditional argument is that it is due to lack of understanding of grammar, words like bricks, grammar, architecture, one must first understand the architecture in order to laying bricks to build a house. That is quite makes sense, but only explained half of the problem. Conversation should be an immediate reaction, constructing words into sentence is a step by step process, if laying words like bricks one by one, then, the situation will be like having msn with others by typing single handed with one finger.
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Why can ancients Chinese composing a poetry within a few seconds? Because they recited the works of their predecessors, to quote a sentence from one of them and changing a few words, then quote other's but reverse its order, by combination they created their own work already. Such as construction(assumption only, not challenge the professionals), building all of the brick houses which are the most popular styles in advance, when someone request, offer the ready-made one most similar to the requested style and do a slightly modify, install some fittings in somewhere, demoting elsewhere and so on, that is different vastly with laying brick-by-brick. For example, when you recited "Raymond was buying vegetables in the market yesterday", in next circumstance you can made a sentence as "Jan will seeing movie in the cinema next week", the same part of speech put in the same places(Raymond/Jan, was/will, buying/seeing, vegetables/movie, in the market/in the cinema, yesterday/next week), because there are ready-made structure, no composition is required, you can achieve the effect of immediate response.
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In general, reciting 100 Sentence-Types would be enough.
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4. Vocabulary are accumulated from Personal Experience ----Things learned in text-books are usually forget in an instant, but things in personal experience would be impressed deeply. Simply keeping a notebook with you, to jot down things you encountered. For instance, it is so hot today, you do not know the word "hot" in German(assuming you are learning German), or having seen a traffic congestion, heard the mobile ring, smell the fragrant of flowers ...... you can jot down "so hot", "traffic congestion", "mobile phone", "fragrant" etc, when you have time, check the dictionary. In the future, whenever you feel hot, having seen a traffic congestion, heard the mobile rings, smell some fragrant, naturally it will remind you of those words.
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While listening to broadcasting in your native language, you can also pondering how to express the same words in foreign languages, check the dictionary immediately whenever you don't know. Hereafter, when you encounter the words you have once checked out, it is a very high probability that you will remember how to call it in foreign language. The advantages of this approach is that you can know very clearly to what level you have achieved, moreover, progress could easily be aware of.
3. Preparing Ready-made Sentences ---- Many people have vocab power but can't make sentences. Traditional argument is that it is due to lack of understanding of grammar, words like bricks, grammar, architecture, one must first understand the architecture in order to laying bricks to build a house. That is quite makes sense, but only explained half of the problem. Conversation should be an immediate reaction, constructing words into sentence is a step by step process, if laying words like bricks one by one, then, the situation will be like having msn with others by typing single handed with one finger.
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Why can ancients Chinese composing a poetry within a few seconds? Because they recited the works of their predecessors, to quote a sentence from one of them and changing a few words, then quote other's but reverse its order, by combination they created their own work already. Such as construction(assumption only, not challenge the professionals), building all of the brick houses which are the most popular styles in advance, when someone request, offer the ready-made one most similar to the requested style and do a slightly modify, install some fittings in somewhere, demoting elsewhere and so on, that is different vastly with laying brick-by-brick. For example, when you recited "Raymond was buying vegetables in the market yesterday", in next circumstance you can made a sentence as "Jan will seeing movie in the cinema next week", the same part of speech put in the same places(Raymond/Jan, was/will, buying/seeing, vegetables/movie, in the market/in the cinema, yesterday/next week), because there are ready-made structure, no composition is required, you can achieve the effect of immediate response.
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In general, reciting 100 Sentence-Types would be enough.
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4. Vocabulary are accumulated from Personal Experience ----Things learned in text-books are usually forget in an instant, but things in personal experience would be impressed deeply. Simply keeping a notebook with you, to jot down things you encountered. For instance, it is so hot today, you do not know the word "hot" in German(assuming you are learning German), or having seen a traffic congestion, heard the mobile ring, smell the fragrant of flowers ...... you can jot down "so hot", "traffic congestion", "mobile phone", "fragrant" etc, when you have time, check the dictionary. In the future, whenever you feel hot, having seen a traffic congestion, heard the mobile rings, smell some fragrant, naturally it will remind you of those words.
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While listening to broadcasting in your native language, you can also pondering how to express the same words in foreign languages, check the dictionary immediately whenever you don't know. Hereafter, when you encounter the words you have once checked out, it is a very high probability that you will remember how to call it in foreign language. The advantages of this approach is that you can know very clearly to what level you have achieved, moreover, progress could easily be aware of.
5. Memorize Example Sentences first, Vocabulary later ---- To reciting words one by one, you will waste you effort but doesn't get the result. For example, to remember the French word "mince"(thin), "gras"(fat), if merely repeating many times "mince mean thin, gras mean fat", may be you can memorize them, however, when you encountering the word mince later, you may spend much time to figure out that it mean thin. But, if I recite the sentences "le singe est mince, le porc est gras."(The monkey is thin, the pig is fat), then, whenever encounter the word "mince", the entire picture will be projected in my brain, so concrete and tangible, can I mixed up with "mince" and "gras" any more?
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Similarly, to memorize "voir"(see) must bear in mind the sentence "voir avec des yeux"(to see with eyes) or "voir la vue"(seeing the view), memorize "entendre"(hear) must bear in mind "à entendre avec l'oreille"(to hear with ear) or "entendre le son"(hearing the sound). Therefore, prepare a dictionary with example phases and sentences, when the word is found, we should memorize the sample sentence, not the meaning of the word in your language. Principle is the same as you see a jigsaw puzzle, you would like to realize a piece within the whole combination, you have to observe the whole combination of all pieces at first, then, even if one of them were taken away, according to the whole you can also figure out how the one part of them look like. So, when you by occasion forget the meaning of "voir", you can remember it easily by way of associating it with "voir avec des yeux".
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Similarly, to memorize "voir"(see) must bear in mind the sentence "voir avec des yeux"(to see with eyes) or "voir la vue"(seeing the view), memorize "entendre"(hear) must bear in mind "à entendre avec l'oreille"(to hear with ear) or "entendre le son"(hearing the sound). Therefore, prepare a dictionary with example phases and sentences, when the word is found, we should memorize the sample sentence, not the meaning of the word in your language. Principle is the same as you see a jigsaw puzzle, you would like to realize a piece within the whole combination, you have to observe the whole combination of all pieces at first, then, even if one of them were taken away, according to the whole you can also figure out how the one part of them look like. So, when you by occasion forget the meaning of "voir", you can remember it easily by way of associating it with "voir avec des yeux".
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