Exercises to memorize foreign words. Useful techniques and technologies for memorizing new English words. How to memorize foreign words Memorize one, two, three

You also need imagination to work in this step. But don't be alarmed if you think you are having a hard time with it. I myself do not have much imagination, but as you have already seen, I successfully cope with the method.

Now is the time to tell you about the most powerful and effective (in my opinion) method of memorizing foreign words - Sound association method.

You may have noticed that human memory is arranged in such a way that information in most cases pops up in our memory associatively. Something or our thoughts cause associations that make the brain refer to certain areas of memory where other information is stored. It is sometimes interesting to trace the chain of associations that has prompted current reflections. For example, why did I just think about calling my parents to find out how they are doing? I was led to these reflections by an associative chain, which began with the fact that I looked out the window and saw that the weather was fine outside, the sun was shining and, practically, all the snow had melted. The roads are dry and this makes me think that it would be nice to change the winter tires on my car for summer ones. Since the summer tires are kept in my parents' garage, I thought I should call them, agree on when to pick up the wheels, and just find out how they are doing.

Another example: the other day my wife and I were driving along the Moscow Ring Road, and at some point her attention was attracted by a beautiful car. “What is this brand?” She asked me. “Subaru,” I replied. Literally a few seconds later, the wife begins to talk about the fact that a few days ago our mutual friend called her, who had disappeared from sight for a long time. “It's strange,” I said. "And what is the connection between" Subaru "and this person, why do you remember about him now?" It turns out a long time ago that this man bought a Subaru car and told everyone about what a wonderful and cool car it was. These memories caused an associative transition from contemplation of a car to a recent conversation with our mutual acquaintance.

The principle of the method of sound associations is that we help our brain to establish a connection between a foreign word and its Russian meaning (and vice versa), by creating an associative bridge between them. With such help, our brain copes with the task of remembering words much easier and more efficiently than with trivial cramming like table-table, table-table.

Let's see how this method works with a specific example. Let's say you need to remember that the above English word "Table" in Russian means "table".

To do this, you need, firstly, to find a word in Russian that sounds similar to an English word "Table"... Let this be the word "tablet"... Do not be discouraged if you (as in this example) it is not possible to find a very similar consonant Russian word... It is not always possible to do this, and, as a rule, it is not required. The fact is that our brain only needs a hint of how the desired word sounds, and he himself, turning to the desired memory cell, will give you the correct option.

So, we found a consonant with the English word "Table" Russian word "tablet"... It is this "tablet" and will become an associative bridge from the word "Table" to its meaning "table"... To do this, we need to come up with a small plot (that's when your imagination is needed!), In which a table and a tablet would be involved.

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One of the main conditions for a good command of a foreign language - large vocabulary. A good level of knowledge of the language is considered to be mastering more than 15 thousand words, and proficiency in 50 thousand words is already considered an excellent level.

There are a huge number of different methods for learning foreign languages, including those designed specifically for memorizing foreign words. We will touch upon just this problem in this chapter. What can be summed up the main recommendations for improving (increasing speed and strength) memorization of foreign words?

MBBO method

The first recommendation or the first method (MVVO method) is especially important for those who want to learn how to communicate fluently in a new language. It is indisputable that when there is a lively conversation (especially if more than two people are participating in the conversation at the same time), it is important to be close to thinking in this language, otherwise you and your interlocutors will feel discomfort, the conversation may drag on, etc. ...

Being close to thinking in language means that, with a sufficient vocabulary, one must be able to automatically make up phrases, which means that the time for remembering the words themselves is reduced to zero. If words do not automatically pop up in your memory, then you will lose the quality of spontaneity necessary to communicate fluently in a foreign language. Of course, spontaneity can come (and will come) with a long experience of communication, but how to speed up this process?

First of all, remember that the main thing for this is NOT to memorize a foreign word as a translation of a native word. It is necessary to immediately associate a foreign word directly with the corresponding concept. That is, you do not need to memorize, repeating many times, for example, butter - (baht) - butter, butter - butter, butter - butter ... learning foreign words). Instead, you need to visually present the image (picture) of the oil itself, and, holding it in front of your eyes, repeat only one foreign word: butter, butter, butter, butter ...

In this case, the very concept of "butter" will be directly linked in your memory with the English "butter", which stands for it. Thus, "butter" becomes a concept, and not just a translation, which, by the way, can be easily substituted by another with ordinary mechanical memorization - after all, in this case, there is no so-called sensual material basis for it, but only a set of letters. In other words, you only need translation to know what to represent.

It is even better if you will not only visualize the image of the memorized word, but also connect other senses to memorization (hearing, touch, smell, etc.). That is, you can apply method of compassion. It would also be nice to remember something special from my personal, individual experience associated with this word.

In the case of "butter", I would suggest imagining how, for example, you slide your index finger over a slightly melted piece butter, you feel its softness, the temperature, you see the track that remained on the piece of butter from your finger. Then you can imagine licking your finger, smelling the taste of oil; you can imagine how you cut off a small piece of butter, again feeling its hardness or softness, eat this piece, while being aware of all your sensations. You can imagine an oil stain on clothes or a towel.

You can try to hear how it hisses in the pan or with what sound it falls on the floor. After all, for sure at least once in your life it fell in front of you or in front of your eyes, it is slippery. You can imagine a porridge with a piece of butter that has not yet melted, or remember the wise remark that if a sandwich falls, it will surely fall butter down, and smile. It would be nice to remember something from your life associated with oil, for example, how once it melted in your bag ... In short, imagine what is closer to you. In this case, you must try to remember and feel as much as possible of what you have associated with this or that concept.

I deliberately enumerated for so long that it is possible to imagine in connection with only one concept. It is important for me that you understand all the variety of how you can "feel" the word "butter" - (baht) (as well as any other foreign word). In fact, visualization, application of the method of feelings and autobiographical memories does not take much time, as it might seem, no more than 1.5-2 minutes, and the effect is tangible. The main thing with all this "procedure" is not to forget for a second, and preferably out loud: butter, butter, butter ... The same operations are applicable for memorizing verbs, and for adjectives and for other parts of speech, the main thing is to be able to highlight the essential sides in memorized words.

Why is this method so effective? The fact is that it is similar to the scheme for the formation of concepts on native language The child has. Mom says to the child: "Take a chair." At the same time, she shows him with her hand at him, explaining what exactly needs to be taken. For now, for a child, the word "chair" is an empty space, a set of sounds. But now he takes it, carries it, feels the dimensions, weight, the material from which it is made, the smell of wood or fabric, sees its shape, etc. Then again there is a situation with a chair, my mother asks: "Move the chair."

It may be a completely different chair, and you need it in order to get up on it and get something, and not sit down, but mother again called this object a chair, and the baby learns more and more about the concept of "chair", gets acquainted with its functional application. He compares the essential features and gradually a moment comes when the child has already formed the concept of "chair". Now he no longer needs to point his hand at him, he himself knows what a chair is. (By analogy with this, in the situation of studying foreign words, when the concept is formed, you will no longer need to waste time remembering or looking into a dictionary.)

You, too, can imagine yourself as a child who learns the world, and, getting acquainted with the next foreign word, do all those operations with it that I spoke about above, gradually achieving that this word turns into a concept for you. By memorizing words in this way, you can achieve their automatic appearance in your memory at the right time, that is, you will be close to thinking in language. I conventionally call this method By the method of interaction of all sensations, abbreviated MVVO.

*** Exercise 15.

Connect the sound of English words to their corresponding concepts using the MVVO method. How to do it? Let me remind you that it is necessary to associate a foreign word, for example, WINDOW - (Windows) not with its translation - the word "WINDOW", but with the "window" as a concept, in other words, with the image of the window, moreover, with the braz obtained through the interaction of all sensations ...

So, without stopping repeating (and better aloud) window, window, window ..., you should simultaneously imagine a window, try to remember and hear the ringing of a broken window or any other sound associated with it, for example, its rattling in a strong wind. Imagine how you touch the window, be aware of your sensations from touching. Remember some situation from your personal life related to the window, better pleasant or funny, etc. Do not forget to repeat the memorized foreign word with an interval of 3-5 seconds.

Here are the English words, their transcription and translation.
Try to apply MVVO to each of them.

SUGAR(SHUGA) - SUGAR
STOMACH(STAMOK) - STOMACH
GRASS(GRAS) - GRASS
INK(INC) - INK
PILLOW(PILOU) - PILLOW
BENCH(BENCH) - BENCH, WORKSTAK
MIRROW(WORLD) - MIRROR
MUSHROOM(MASHRUM) - MUSHROOM
CLOUD(CLAUDE) - CLOUD
CURTAIN(KÖTHN) - CURTAIN

In the literature on the study of foreign languages, quite often you can find two more methods of memorizing words that have something in common with MVVO. And although in terms of efficiency they are significantly inferior to MVVO, we will nevertheless dwell briefly on them.

1. Surely you have already heard that it is useful to attach pieces of paper (a kind of tags) with words denoting them in the target language to all objects, as possible. (Wardrobe, table, shelf, glass, window, kettle, towel, hanger, lamp, calendar, wire, curtains, etc.) grasp them firmly.

The advantage of this method is that, using it, you also memorize a foreign word not as a translation of a native one, but immediately as an image-concept. But the limitations of this method are visible to the naked eye. How many items can you attach these tags to? By 100-200, no more. At your disposal will be only those items that surround you at home and at work.

But what about the rest? A significant disadvantage of this method is that when it is used, only vision works, and the interaction of all the senses does not have a positive effect. Moreover, such a mechanism for memorizing new words is not fixed in children's experience. As you already know, concepts in a child's native language are formed in a completely different way.

Although if you first apply the MVVO method to the memorized words, and then attach tags to some objects, then they may serve as a good reminder, a repetition of what has already been learned. Thus, it is more likely not a method of memorizing foreign words, but a good method of repeating them.

2. Another widespread method of memorizing foreign words is the method of memorizing them with the help of pictures, which depict the main meanings of words. There are countless dictionaries in pictures, sets of cards of different sizes and degrees of artistry. These dictionaries and flashcards are usually accompanied by various guidelines for their use.

This method is really popular all over the world. And it is not in vain that it is popular. Its effectiveness in comparison with ordinary memorization of words is obvious. But it is not difficult to notice that it is only the first part of the above-described MVVO method, a part that can be conventionally called "visualization". That is, viewing a picture depicting the meaning of a word is a kind of analogue of a mental representation of a word in MVVO.

It is important to note that for those who cannot imagine the images of words mentally, cards with their image will even be necessary. The card will help form an internal mental image of the word. They can serve as a starting point for all further work to activate other sensations associated with the word. Flashcards (as opposed to dictionaries) are also convenient in that a large number of exercise options are possible with them.

And yet, your own image of the memorized word is preferable to someone else's (in this case, the artist), since the formation of a concept is more effective, nevertheless, on the basis of personal experience, and your image of an object may differ significantly from that of an artist. However, there are words, the visual image of which does not appear so immediately in your mind. These can be abstract concepts, as well as words denoting objects that you have never seen - not only in reality, but also in the picture. In these cases, the artist's picture will help you in shaping the visual image.

Another well-known recommendation for memorizing foreign words is that it is advisable to memorize words as part of phrases. Thus, in order to better remember the word, it must be included in the phrase. For example, for the word "butter" it is enough to compose the phrase "Don" t eat much butter! " (I really love bread and butter.) Now make sure that the phrase is grammatically correct. After that, it must be pronounced aloud several times, imagine the situation described by the phrase. It helps to memorize the singing of the phrase to some well-known motive.

The way of memorizing in context is good because you not only learn a new word, but also once again repeat the words already known to you, from which the sentence is composed, as well as the grammar rules used in it. It is also important that with frequent use of this method, the fear of speaking in a foreign language decreases and the corresponding skill is developed, the skill of using familiar words in phrases is a necessary condition for free communication in the target language. (Surely you have met people who know many words of the language, but they are afraid to speak this language, and often simply are not able to.)

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Learning a language is impossible without memorizing new words. But besides the banal and boring cramming, there are many simple ones, and most importantly - effective ways learn unfamiliar words.

First you need to figure out how exactly you perceive information best. There is a small but very important checklist for this. If you are an auditor, then the “reading the notebook” method will work much worse for you than the “listening to the list of words to the text” method. And you don't even have to think about it and look at this stupid notebook for a long time and stubbornly, to the bitter end and the feeling of your own worthlessness, and not understand why nothing is remembered!

Traditional methods

1. Yartsev's method (visuals)

We take a notebook. We write out the word - translation in 2-3 columns. We give a number of synonyms \ antonyms \ examples. From time to time we read lists, we just read, we do not cram nothing.

I don’t know how it works, but, for example, I didn’t learn German, I just read a notebook from time to time. The teacher did not arrange dictations, never checked us on the lists. And I still, many years later, remember a bunch of words.

It turns out that you don’t strain, you don’t try to pour 100 words into yourself in 30 minutes, you just regularly refresh the material from time to time. But you should immediately warn that these words should be found in textbooks, articles, i.e. you must, in addition to reading the notebook, somehow activate them.

1. Card method

The second popular method. We take and cut a bunch of cards or buy square blocks of paper for notes. On one side we write the word, on the other - the translation. For advanced users, here are some examples. We drive the cards in a circle, put aside those that we know well. From time to time we repeat what we have passed in order to refresh. On the downside, if there are a lot of words and little time, you will spend a lot of time creating the cards themselves.

As entertainment, you can arrange them in piles of 10 in different places of the apartment, bump into them from time to time and repeat them. Audials should definitely add speaking out loud to this method. Cards are great for children, it can be turned into an interesting game.

1. Prescribing method

Classics of the genre. You take a word and spell it out many, many times. Works great for Chinese characters. Minus - green melancholy. But the method has been tested for centuries.

1. Half Page Method

This is one of my favorite ways. Bend the sheet in half, write a word on one edge, with back side- translation. You can quickly check yourself. It works well for me as a visual. I easily remember in which part of the sheet it was written given word... Minus - you get used to a certain word order.

1. Interior Designer Method

If you are learning some specific vocabulary that surrounds you, you can make a kind of "labels" everywhere - stick stickers with the names of objects. You can also stick on the monitor the most nasty words that do not want to be remembered. The plus of this method is the fun. Minus - the brain can begin to ignore all these pieces of paper, and then they will hang somewhere for a long time.

Optimization methods

1. Grouping method by grammatical features

If you have a large list of words, the worst thing you can do with it is to learn it haphazardly. It can and should be processed and grouped. For example, first you write out verbs, and you write them out not in a row, but group them according to the type of endings, or write out masculine nouns, then feminine and separately exceptions that do not fall into these lists.

Thus, since most of our words do not belong to exceptions, you begin to see the logic of the language and memorize words in conjunction with similar ones.

1. Grouping method by meaning

You write out and memorize the word and its synonym / antonym at once. This is true for both beginners and intermediate students. Now you have learned the word "good", find out right away how "bad" will be. And if you still remember "excellent, so-so, disgusting", then you will greatly enrich your vocabulary.

1. The method of learning cognate words

We take words, group them around the root, for example, "business / do / done", and learn several parts of speech with the same root at once.

1. Etymological method

Works well for those who have learned multiple languages. When you study several languages ​​within one language branch, you begin to see similar roots. This actually comes with experience, and you do not have to learn a huge number of words again. At some point, you just already know enough. And if I understand that this word does not mean anything to me categorically, I go into the etymological dictionary and dig into where it came from. While I do this, I remember it.

1. Word strings

You take a list of words to learn and make a story out of them (even if it's crazy). So you will learn not 30 words, but 5 sentences of 6 words each. If you approach this business creatively, you can have fun and usefully spend time.

Ways for those who don't like old-fashioned methods

1. Spaced Repetition

The technique of retention in memory, which consists in repeating the learned educational material at certain, constantly increasing intervals. In fact, you install an application on your phone, and the program will automatically show you words in the specified order and with the desired frequency. You can use either ready-made word lists or create your own.

Pros: it is deeply engraved in the memory.

Cons: Takes a lot of time. If you have already memorized the word, it will still pop up from time to time in some programs.

In Memrise you can choose ready-made word lists or create your own. If the word is categorically not remembered, you can use special funny pictures that users create using mnemonic techniques, or upload your own. Memrise also recently added a new option - you can not only hear the voice acting of a word, but watch a video of how people pronounce these words.

Service for working on written speech for those who have already mastered the basics of language practice. The user writes the text in the target language, after which the native speaker of the corresponding language is taken to check the written and makes his own edits.

"Magic" methods

Various marketers and language gurus are very fond of luring in magical methods. Usually the essence of the methods lies in the "secret techniques of special services", which, objectively speaking, are described in a heap of literature. And they are asking for unhealthy sums of money.

1. Mnemonics

Mnemonics is one of the most popular methods, the essence of which is to come up with funny and absurd associations for a word that you just can't remember. You take the floor and come up with some kind of associative image that should be very vivid. But in this image there must be a "key" to the memorized word.

Example: "grief" - woe to a wounded tiger, vultures circle over him.

For auditors

Rule # 1 for you: Always say what you are learning out loud. If you use cards, speak it out. If you are reading the list, read it out loud. Hear the words, for you this is the most quick way remember them! Naturally, you have to write them down, but it will go faster than if you read and write in silence.

1. Listening to words

You can record audio recordings of word lists and repeat after the announcer. Good textbooks usually have a well-read word list for the lesson. You can also listen to high-quality podcasts in which there is a detailed analysis of the dialogues.

1. Multiple repetition

A method similar to writing words in a row, quite boring and boring, but effective - repeat aloud several times. There is an opinion that a word can be considered learned if you have used it 5 times in context. So try to give 5 different examples of how this word is used. Of course, out loud. You can fix it by writing it down.

Don't just learn the list. Always learn words in context, choose examples and phrases. Work with a dictionary.

1. Memorize dialogues

Memorizing small dialogues and texts with useful vocabulary by heart is one of the surest ways that you remember at the right moment and use the word correctly in the context you need. Yes, it will take more time and effort, but in the long run, you will have a set of ready-made structures in your head that you will be happy to use.

1. Ask someone to check you

Take your husband / mom / child / friend and ask them to chase you down the list. Of course, you will not be given grades, but an element of control and discipline will appear.

1. Learn what is really needed

In one of my textbooks, the word "hoe" appeared in the vocabulary before the words "short and long" appeared. Do not learn "hoes" and all unnecessary garbage until the moment, until you learn really relevant and vital vocabulary.

How to determine relevance? There are many tutorials and lists from the Top 1000 Words series. First, we learn the frequency, then - "hoes", not earlier. If you have not yet learned how to count and do not know the pronoun, it is still too early for you to learn colors, no matter how much you would like.

1. Get creative with the process

If everything pisses you off, words do not enter your head and you want to quickly close these lists, experiment. Someone is helped by drawings, someone walks around the apartment and recites aloud, someone communicates with their cat. If you are interested in something, do not be lazy to go into the dictionary. Study what is close to you. Don't get hung up on methods that don't work.

It's no secret that most of the time when learning foreign languages ​​is spent on memorizing words. At school we were taught only one method - cramming. Yes, this is a cool method, but no! - not cool, ineffective and very boring. Cramming makes memorization seem like torture, which is far from it. How to memorize foreign words effectively and interestingly?

In fact, with the right technology, it is a very fast and fun process. And the main thing is that we can memorize huge amounts of information in a short period of time.

How to do it? How to increase the speed of learning any foreign language at least 2 times? The answer is simple - using the technology described in this article.

How to memorize foreign words Memorize one, two, three

The magic tool that we will be using is called "mnemonics". Yes, good old mnemonics. This tool, today, is the most effective assistant in memorizing any kind of information.

To memorize a foreign word, we need to do only three steps:

→ Encode the meaning of a word
→ Encode the sound of a word
→ Combine two looks into one

Everything is very simple. Moreover, this method is suitable for memorizing words of any foreign language.

Let's consider some examples:

English language.

Word foot (feet) - foot

1. Image for meaning. We represent any foot. You can first look at your foot, then imagine it in your head.
2. Image for sound. We select the closest possible association. For example, a T-shirt, soccer.
3. We connect two images. We wrap a T-shirt on the foot, concentrate our attention on connecting these images and at the same time pronounce the word "foot" (foot-foot-foot) three times to remember the pronunciation of this word.
Or you can imagine a football player hitting the ball with his bare foot.
That's how easy nouns are remembered. How to memorize verbs and adjectives?

Similar:

Word press (PRES) - iron (iron)

1. Image for meaning. Imagine an ironing board and an iron.
2. Image for sound. PRES. Imagine a person with a 6-pack abs.
3. We connect two images. Imagine that instead of an ironing board, there is a man with a naked torso. You go up to him, take the iron and start ironing on his press. Concentrate on the connection point and say the word "press" three times.
Pictures may seem very strange, but the more unusual the images in your head, the better for remembering.

Word green - green

1. Image for meaning. For example, a green apple.
2. Image for sound. You can take the Brothers Grimm.
3. We connect two images. You can imagine one of the Brothers Grimm biting an apple and turning green.

What if you can't find one image for the word? It is then necessary to use several images.

Example:
Word Elderly - elderly

1. Image for meaning. A gray-haired old man with a stick.
2. Image for sound. Elf and Dali (El Salvador)
3. We connect two images. Introducing the old elf with a mustache Dali. The elf's mustache and hair are gray. Imagine, say this word three times and that's it, you remember it.

A few tips for working with images:

∨ The eyes, when working with images, do not close, they are directed upward. This is the right position to engage the visual channel.
∨ It is necessary to create objects of the same size, or at least approximately the same. If you combine the image of an elephant with the image of a fly, then the fly, in size, should be the same as the elephant.
∨ Most better ways to connect - sex, humor, violence. The easiest is to stick one image into another.
∨ At the same time, you need to concentrate on the connection between two objects. No more
∨ Focusing not on the objects themselves, but on their connection

Mnemonics allows you to remember a large amount of information in a very short period of time, but in order to remember this information for a long time, you need to repeat it.

For the first 96 hours, repeat the words you learned as often as possible. Then repeat the learned words after a month, then after 2, after 6 and after a year.

If you decide to memorize from 100 - 1000 words a day, then I recommend working in batches:

∨ Memorized ten words
∨ They repeated them three times (from Russian to foreign, from foreign to Russian)
∨ Move on to the next ten words
∨ We repeated them three times, moved on to the next ten words, etc.
∨ Accumulated three packs of 10 words each, repeated all 30 words
∨ When they accumulated three packs of 100 words each, they repeated all 300 words, etc.

You need to quickly memorize a large number of English words. And as you've been told or read online, it's very easy to learn them. But how did you not try to quickly memorize at least the necessary minimum, did you succeed? Perhaps you have chosen the wrong methods or techniques of memorization? We will deal with this today.

First, let's try to figure out why memorizing English words is so difficult? The fact is that a new concept is accurate information, the translation and pronunciation of which you need to know 100%. Try to pronounce a foreign word. Native speakers won't understand you, so it's important to remember the word as accurately as possible.

Any new information is poorly remembered. As a rule, even with exhausting "cramming", only 20% is absorbed. But if you choose the right technique, which will allow you to quickly learn words, then this figure will grow significantly. Start learning basic English words now!

Let's take a look at best practices memorizing new English words:

Memorizing English words is a convenient and interesting style of presenting educational material in short rhymes or songs. Memorizing words will be effective if they themselves rhyme or are included in rhymed structures. This technique also contains elements of artistic association:

• Plum here and plum there
  Plum in english plam
• I prefer watermelon to plums
  Watermelon - aka watermelon
• The price of melons is written in chalk
  Melon in english melon
• The fairy told me in a dream:
  Pear in english pear

These are the kind of meaningless, but very effective lines.

Mnemonics

The very way of artistic association that allows you to memorize concepts through the creation of vivid images in your head. Moreover, the more ridiculous the image is created, the better the word or phrase will be remembered.

Let's try?!

• "Spoon", pretend funny little gnome Spoon sleeping sweetly in a spoon
• "Chess" (chess) - chess pieces come to life on the chessboard, run up to each other and start scratching each other's backs
• "Turnip" (turnip) - grabbing the horizontal bar with its leaves, turnip spins on it like a gymnast
• "Ship" (ship), imagine a ship with huge protruding spikes

Thanks to this technique, words are memorized very easily.

Cards

Popular simple technique memorize new vocabulary. Cut thin cardboard into small rectangles. Take a stack of these cards and write a word or phrase in English on one side and its translation on the other. Carry these cheat sheets with you at all times and repeat them whenever you can.

The cards can be divided by subject matter of phrases or by the phonetic sound of words. After examining one stack, you can proceed to the next stack. After a while, return to the material covered and repeat it. You will be able to translate your passive vocabulary into active, that is, remember and freely use speech constructions.

Marking

The technique involves the following: a pack of adhesive stickers is taken, words from your home or your work environment or everyday life are written on them. Then you glue these tags to the corresponding items, thus marking a huge number of things. For example, stick the "Salt" tag on the salt shaker, "Dining table" on the dining table, "Journal table" on the coffee table, "Door in a bathroom" on the bathroom door, and so on.

The disadvantage of this technique is that you can only label specific concepts, but sticking a sticker on such abstract concepts as love (Love), joy (Pleasure), happiness (Happiness) will not work. Therefore, it is better to memorize this vocabulary in other known ways.

Polyglot

This technique will allow you to easily and quickly memorize 100-150 new words every day. The method represents sequential mental operations and actions that form memorization skills.

Memorization scheme according to the "Polyglot" system:

• A translation of a word
• Find a consonant Russian word for pronunciation
• Connect the image of the translation with the image of the consonant word
• "Take a picture" is a foreign word
• Write word
• Check the quality of memorization
• Write to card

• Look - look
• "I can't watch when they cut onions"
• Highlight the word on all sides with yellow cards, so that only “look” is in the center. Try to mentally take a picture of the word and remember the graphic image, read it aloud several times
• Write a word
• Checking the quality of memorization means writing a word from right to left ... k .ok .ook look
• Putting the word on the review card

Synonymous row

This technique allows you to quickly memorize words, thanks to the expansion of the synonymous range. It is better to keep a special notebook in which, as you learn the language, you need to enter new words. Pick up new synonyms as often as possible and repeat what you already learned.

Memorizing vocabulary, thus, allows the student to accurately and richly express their thoughts in English, increases the speed of speech.

• Energy - force - power
• little - small - tiny
• pretty - handsome - beautiful

Regardless of which method you choose, it is better to memorize words according to the following scheme: “ Writing - pronunciation - translation". Memorization in this sequence is called "recognition".

And finally, classes should be regular. It is better to learn 10 words every day than 100 once a week.

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