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1、HowtoMemorizeEnglishWords?Withtheaccelerationofglobalization,Englishhasboostedahitthroughouttheworld.Thatis,therehasappearedadramaticincreaseinthenumberofpeoplelearningEnglishasaforeignlanguage,ofwhichChinesepeopleaccountforalargeproportion.WithmorepeoplestartingtolearnEngli
2、sh,newproblemshavearisen.NowitisapopularphenomenonthatmanyEnglishlearnersinChinacomplainaboutthedifficultiesofEnglishlearning,especiallythevocabulary.Weknowthatthereareabout1,000,000Englishwords,ofwhich170,000aremostfrequentlyused.Withoutwords,wecannotmakeupaphrase,asentence
3、,aparagraphoranarticle.SoweEnglishlearnersmustattachgreatimportancetoEnglishvocabulary.However,whatmethodsshouldweChineseEnglishlearnersemploytomemorizewordsandbuildalargevocabulary?SinceIhavelearnedEnglishforeightyears,Ihavesomeexperiencetosharewithyou.IbeganstudyingEnglish
4、fromjuniorschool.ItwasthefirsttimethatIhadcontactedwithEnglish.AndIwastotallyatseawithEnglishatthattime.Notevenknowinghowtopronounceawordcorrectly,Ijustrepeatreadingeveryletterofitandwriteitdownforseveraltimestomemorizeit.ButIwouldforgetitverysoon.Andweknowitiswhatwecallmech
5、anicalmemory.Itturnsouttobeanineffectiveway.Later,Iwastaughttheinternationalphoneticsymbols.ThoughIcouldnottrulyunderstandthem,Istillfeltthepowerofthem.Oneday,whenIcameacrosstheword“father”,Iseemedtobeenlightenedsuddenly.Thinkingthat“a”usuallypronounces/a:/behindletter“f”,“t
6、h”usuallypronounces//and“er”usuallypronounces//,Iquicklycameupwiththerightspelling.Fromthenon,IbegantopaymoreattentiononthepheneticrulesandIfounditausefulwaytomemorizewordsviatheirpronunciation.IhadusedthiswayformywholehighschoolandIbenefitedalotfromthisway.Bythisway,wehavet
7、oknowtheaccuratepronunciationofthewords.Andweknowthatitisthepheneticsymbolsthatwilldecidethethepronunciationofwords.Soitisimportanttohaveagoodcommandofthepheneticrules.Ifweknowtherules,wewillbeabletopronounceawordcorrectlyandthenwewillbeabletospellitcorrectly.However,therear
8、efewoccasionswheretherulesarenotapplicable.Sometimeswewillmeetwithwordswhic