How native english speakers learn phrasal verbs
Yesterday, I was thinking about how the native speakers learn phrasal verbs when they are children, for non-native speakers phrasal verbs commonly is teach after you already known some verbs and usually you use these single verbs when you are speaking instead of phrasal verbs. I was thinking about that. Some phrasal verbs that i learned before the verbs. I use them more frequently. I definitely should learn phrasal verbs first, just like native speakers do, of course. When I am listening i can understand a bunch of phrasal verbs, but when I'm talking or writing, I forget them. I definitely need a way to handle this and move them from my passive well-known vocabulary of phrasal verbs to my active vocabulary.
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Yesterday, I was thinking about how the native speakers learn phrasal verbs when they are children, for non-native speakers phrasal verbs are commonly taught is teach after you already known some verbs and usually you use these single verbs when you are speaking instead of phrasal verbs. I was thinking about that. Some phrasal verbs that i learned before the verbs. I use them more frequently. I definitely should definitely learn phrasal verbs first, just like native speakers do, of course. When I am listening i can understand a bunch of phrasal verbs, but when I'm talking or writing, I forget them. I definitely need a way to handle this and move them from my passive well-known vocabulary of phrasal verbs to my active vocabulary.
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yeap, I agree, its like "discover", i never used this verb, maybe in the past... but now I always use find out, figure out, realize, notice instead, but i really need to keep praticing these forms because each one has a meaning even "discover", but i aways forgot when to use either.
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I would recommend that instead of learning all phrasal verbs first, or second, you learn the phrasal verbs that people tend to prefer over the other verbs in natural conversations.
Like "pick up". I would always prefer to say, "when can you pick me up from the airport?", as opposed to, "when can you collect me from the airport". Perhaps it just sounds more casual and natural.
I would prefer to say, "stand up", because it sounds it is a lot more concise than saying, "move myself to an upright position from my previous seated one". So if the phrasal verb offers a convenient alternative to a longer phrase, we will probably prefer it.
...In some situations!
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