3 Admission: how to memorize English words with the help of associations

How best to memorize English words, that they are firmly entrenched in the memory? This guest article from Eugene Khokhlova Enguide.ru It teaches you to find the right association and better learn new English words.

Evgeniya Khokhlova

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The feeling of a lack of words to express thoughts visits us even to communicate in their native language. What can we say about English.

Large vocabulary - the key to successful communication, which is why it needs to be constantly replenished. For beginners to learn English the most difficult: to speak in the most simple theme, you need to know at least 1500 words.

To the question "How many words do you need to know to fully communicate?"Scientists and English teachers referred to different figures. In one they are in agreement: the more, the better.

Learn new words more easily and efficiently with the help of all associations. We offer three steps that can help you significantly replenish vocabulary.

1. reception Vladislav - Baby do not hurt me

In academic circles, he is known as a technique of phonetic associations. Foreigners, who are eager to learn Russian, use it to the full. The method - choose a word from their native language, consonant with the foreign word you want to learn. How to remember lyrics What is love - Baby do not hurt me? Replace the phrase British friends and relatives "Vladislav".

With this method, the kids in early childhood memorize difficult words. For example, as a young man to seven years of age may be fixed in the memory of the great wrestler's name with mills (we assume that he had such a need)? "Don Quixote" to him about anything does not say, but "thin cat" - a familiar and funny phrase.

Foreigners have gone further: they can compete with the children on the part of the invention of phonetic associations.

• True Bar - trumpet.
• Serve Coffee - the church.
• Horror Show - OK.
• Our device is Korea - Get dressed quickly.
• Pale Man - dumpling.
• Meaty or eat - a meteorite.

Phonetic Association method not only helps memorize wordsBut also learn the rules of pronunciation. English-speaking inventors have even come up with an association to the pronunciation of the most romantic word in the world yellow blue tea bear.

What prevents you to choose the association to the English words?

• Keep it - boils.
• Afraid - uh, Freud!
• Necessary - bears a sari.
• What can i do - vodka find.

Pronunciation of the word "pedestrian" in English is not difficult to remember, but the associative array on the brink of a foul (pedestrian - pedestrian). And the association, other than audio, and more meaningful. By the way necessary too easy to connect and lexical (semantic) association: necessary (Required, necessary) - "carries sari", because the sari - a necessary thing in India.

2. Admission Brad Pitt

This method can still be called reception lexical associations. To memorize You select words that are similar in pronunciation and even remotely related to study the Word of value. Even if a remote connection is not present, you can create one try.

Consider the following example. In order to remember the word heel - "heel", you just need to remember the name of the hero, known for his death because of this part of the body. That's right, we are about Achilles. Now just repeat several times "Heel - "heel" because Achilles ". For a better memorization can still represent Brad Pitt in "Troy."

Similarly, easy to draw parallels with other words:

• Palm - "palm" (think of a palm tree and its leaves, disclosed as the palm).
• Skull - "Skull" (it is possible to represent the Indians, whose favorite pastime was scalping).
• To look - "look" (think of how difficult it look like someone is cutting onions).

Choose the association can be for a variety of words - you need only a little imagination to connect.

3. Admission fall into a pool

This technique is still known as the "reception autobiographical associations." To remember the word you need to link it to some event in the life. For example, have you ever fallen in a puddle? I remembered the unpleasant sensations? Now repeat the word several times puddle - "dirt", "puddle". You will be easy to remember it.

Word courtDesignating the "court", easy to remember, presenting a tennis court. Do you play tennis? Presented themselves facing court? Now think about that earlier trials conducted over a wide area, which could accommodate a crowd of onlookers, and the word will be remembered.

Word inception - "Beginning" - easy to remember, because you will most likely looked eponymous film with Leo DiCaprio. To memorize new words is simply to pay attention to the original movie titles.

Many words are easy to remember, because they have already become part of your professional slang. For example, Slang IT-specialists by almost 90% filled with the words of English origin:

• Fixed - from to fix (Fix to fix).
• Bagh (prodebazhit) - from bug (mistake).
• Connect - from to connect (connect).
• Juzat - from to use (use).

In many professions, and in everyday life we ​​often use a great number of words of English origin. It suffices to recall (or naguglit), The words from which they came:

• Shake - "shake" (then just need to think about the bartender with a shaker).
• Roll - "roll", "roll" (all thoughts of sushi and Japanese cuisine).
• Escape - "escape" (remember the Esc button on your keyboard, and how often you have to press it).

To improve the efficiency of studying all the tricks you can actively combine. The main rule of English: do not torment yourself memorization.

We wish you success!