Memorizing vs. Reading alot.
These days, I keep thinking about how to speak English more fluently.
There are two different views of acquiring English. One is from my professors. The other is from a famous interpreter.
Seeking for the answers, I paid a visit to my professors, who are renowned language experts in Korea.
All of three said, I have to read a bunch of books without looking words up on a dictionary and memorizing them.
However, a teacher, who once was an interpreter, keeps saying memorizing the chapter books will definitely work. So, now I am memorising the whole lines of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. After dictating the audio files, I start memorising it.
What do you think learning foreign languages is? Do you think you just memorize the whole thing with contexts, or you should read floods of reading materials for speaking?
Please give me your thoughts, my friends.
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Memorizing vs. Reading alot.
These days, I keep thinking about how to speak English more fluently.
There are two different views of acquiring English. One is from my professors. The other is from a famous interpreter.
Seeking for the answers, I paid a visit to my professors, who are renowned language experts in Korea.
All of three said that I have to read a bunch of books without looking words up in a dictionary and memorizing them.
However, a teacher, who once was an interpreter, keeps saying that memorizing the chapter* books will definitely work. So, now I am now memorising the whole every lines of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". After dictating the audio files, I start memorising it.
*What do you mean by chapter books?
What do you think learning foreign languages is? Do you think you just memorize the whole thing with contexts, or you should you read floods of reading materials for speaking?
Please give me your thoughts, my friends.
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I think it all depends on why you're learning english. If you want be a great writer and use english for work, then reading books to increase your vocabulary is probably best. But if you just want to sound natural and have casual conversations with friends and people on the street then I think just learning by doing is the most effective. Everyday, go and meet someone and talk with them. If you ever find yourself thinking, "how do I say this" then write down the phrase in Korean and then have the other person translate it. If you learn a word this way, you can learn the word in its proper context. It'll also help you remember cause you can link the word to a real memory too. That way you're more likely to actively recall and use it rather than just recognizing it when someone says it.
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Well, in my book the best way to acquire an active vocabulary would be to engage in a real conversation) Because that's how you'll understand what words and phrases can be actually used by you, and once you used them they will stay in your memory.
Context is a good thing, but I think that it'd be better to look up unknown words in the dictionary and at least try to memorize them)
So I'm definitely FOR translating and then memorizing) Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I rely on this method.
And I'd also recommend studying by heart not some novels but materials from the text-books, especially when the information is given thematically)
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