A15 Learn Chinese with stories : 肚子疼 (I have a stomachache)

How many words can we learn a day

Let’s think about this first How badly do you really want to learn the words? Is it enough to read the book or do you want to use the words in your real life? You could read more than 10,000words per hour if you are a competent reader. So, it means you could encounter many unknown words during the reading and learn a lot of words per day. If you look up the unknown words, you would say that you could learn more than hundreds of words a day. On the contrary, if you really focus on learning the new words to be able to achieve mastery level so that you use them in your real life, you should read articles to see how those words are applied in a real sentence and connect the meaning to your previous knowledge and experiences or image in your mind including finding the definition of the words. The development of language is a byproduct produced by the process of understanding the usage in a real life. If you try to do this, that could be 5 ~ 10 words with contextualized pra...

Don't try to memorize tons of words at the same time

Many people try to memorize a large number of words all at once. However, this method is inefficient. Let’s take an example. Nowadays, we have smartphones that allow us to store names and make calls with just one click. But before, with public phones, we had to first remember the phone number from a small notebook (memorization) and then dial it to make a call. However, once the goal of dialing the phone number was achieved, there was no need to keep remembering the number, as the purpose of memorizing it had been fulfilled. As a result, this information stays in memory for a short time and then disappears. This is what we call short-term memory. Now, how would we retain this phone number for longer without needing to refer to the notebook? We might try writing down the number while memorizing it, or we could assign special meaning to it. For example, if the number is '1004,' we might remember it as "angel" in Korean (천사), which helps us convert general information i...

想起 / 認識 / 学び直す

言い換えれば貴方が学んだことを忘れたらそれが何のことでもあなたに意味がないということですメモリーは私たちが生きて行くために本当に大事なことなんです　これからどうやって記憶するのか説明します１．想起　（ recall ）記憶からまた必要な情報を浮かべること。例えば、 “二次世界大戦は＿＿＿＿＿年に勃発した”の正確を考えるのが想起です２．認識 ( recognition) 覚えているけど正確に記憶できないこと例えば、貴方が前に行った食堂に行きたいけど、そのレストランがどこにあるか、はっきり覚えていないとき、周りの道をいきながら、その建物に似ている建物を探すのが、「認識」です学校の試験で４この選択肢からえらぶ時に会ったと考える一つを選ぶのができるのが認識です . 例えば、想起は英語で何といますか？ - Retention - Recall - Relearning - Recognition ３．学び直す (relearning) 前に学んだことをもう一度学ぶこと学校の試験の前以前に学んだことをまた勉強するのが学び直す

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