Read a lot and you will memorize thousands of words in a more natural and a more menaingful way. After all, the dictionaries are not passed down to us from God, they are just a description of the language that is actually used in myriads of texts. So the more texts you read the richer your vocabulary will become without the absurd need to memorize by heart the whole Oxford dictionary or the whole Wikipedia or whatever Hello, Im from China, Im also one of the English fans.
I have been memorizing the whole Dict of Oxford for more than half an year since i was in college, but now i resume to memorize the dict ,all as to work for commercial purpose , coz Im working in a company which it is one of our investors! I do really think it is very very hard to memorize, and i need to review them occassionally that in order to keep the long-term memory , i did try , and until now , i have memoried about four major characters , the big words begins with S, P,C, and a small M, and now im memorizing words starts with A One can express very well without knowing the whole dic.
I'd waste more time in listening and reading to the language than memorizing words mindlessly. Memorize the dictionary if you can Read books Pay attention to grammar when you read a book practice, practice, practice Life is a learning process and it is true that one can express oneself well without memorizing the whole dictionary. However, the brain is a muscle and it ought to be treated as such; it ought to be fed with knowledge. Knowledge can come from natural surroundings your house, our school, your parents, your toys, your books etc But, just like all muscles, the brain ought to be pushed to its limit.
Muscles don't grow unless they are forced to perform feats out of the ordinary. The same principle applies to the brain. The brain's utility is to expand and facilitate memory storage, and you do that by training it to memorize the most boring facts, and the most challenging words. What better tool to use than a dictionary; the most boring book in the universe.
This might not yield the short term world-record-breaking benefits that the "dictionary man' is enjoying as I type, but I believe it might give one the tools to succeed in any type of learning environment. So go ahead and memorizing, you will see how much people remember of your speeches. In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks.
I believe it took me a day. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting. The next day he moved on to the next page, and before he knew it he had reached the end of the letter A and the end of his notebook. Rather than stopping, he found another tablet and kept going. And some read dictionaries for the intellectual challenge. Robertson, that he had read his Dictionary twice over. Many great writers have been great readers of reference books.
His letters and diaries are full of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Greek lexicons. Aldous Huxley was another Britannica reader; he took a complete twelfth edition with him on holiday. A few readers have simply been curious to the point of masochism, and have read for the sake of reading.
I believe I am the first person who has ever done this. Jacobs read the complete Britannica in a single year, and reported on the experience in his book The Know-It-All. When the parcel arrived, Jacobs was overwhelmed by.
The total: 44 million words. Each essay is a bite-sized nugget. Evidence from intervention programs on reading suggests a causal relation between experience with books and language acquisition.
Our major interest was to determine how differences observed in reading interactions relate to language acquisition. Predicting reading ability over the long-term : the changing roles of letter naming, phonological awareness and orthographic processing. Regression analyses with the older group attributed this to reading acquisition.
Students of policy and politics can benefit from reading this book. I think linguists with an interest in diachronic syntax will surely benefit from reading this book. When you are done reading the passage, turn the page. Perspectives on reading research and instruction pp. I found myself asking on reading this, but the question is not seriously addressed. On reading through the text, however, one begins to develop an uneasy feeling that its central focus is the provider and not the older person.
Gradually from then he became very withdrawn, and he stopped reading the papers. See all examples of read. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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