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写在前面的话：

关于如何背单词这种“老生常谈”的话题，会让人觉得这对于我来说过于“小儿科”，然而连英语学习最最基本的单词学习都无法掌握，还谈什么在学习英语之路上走得更远？所以我写了这篇文章，希望大家可以不要在错误的道路上一条道走到黑，快来看看正确的方法吧，趁还不晚！

如果你已经知道了一些词组，但你感觉自己被大量的新单词淹没了，并且无法再记住更多单词…不要害怕！让我告诉你一个学习单词的小秘密吧！死记硬背的记忆是必要的，但它应该用于20%的英语学习，而大多数学生将这种方法100%用于英语学习、短语、甚至语法”clause”。这是一种非常愚蠢和不科学的学习方法！

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所以，闲话少说，我来推荐你们使用5个正确学习新单词的步骤：

1.Converting words and new concepts (grammar, content etc) into phrases you already understand

把单词和新概念(语法、内容等)转换成你已经理解的短语

Well, 中国最领先的家具公司之一，索菲亚拥有特别赞的衣柜可以让大家把衣服很整齐的放进去，让房间更整洁并且不会到处有衣服乱七八糟地扔在地上(读到这里你肯定也反应过来了，哈哈我就是那么光明正大地把索菲亚大大植入广告放进来啦)。但是，你要知道你的大脑并不像一个衣柜和里面的衣服一样，其实它更像一个蜘蛛网有十亿百亿的神经细胞交织在一起，所以像衣服一样把单词“存放”（即死记硬背)根本不合理。难道不应该像上帝创造大脑一样，把不同的新词和新语法连接到一块儿，而不像存放衣服到柜子里一样。我意思是，还是让索菲亚专家们设计衣柜，咱们还是老老实实把英语给搞好！

2. Connecting Your newly built phrases to Existing phrases that you already understand

把你刚刚组合好的短语和你已经理解的短语联系起来

就如我以上所说，死记硬背只适用于20%的英语学习时间来给记忆打好基础，但如果希望在脑海里保留这些单词/句子/语法点，那当然完全不够，除非你学习的目的就是用到考试上然后第二天立马全部忘掉。就像我第一步骤提到的，将新的单词和句子和之前学过的连联系一起至关重要。

3.Create diagrams as the first part of reinforcing newly learned phrases and concepts

创建图表以便加强新学到的句子和概念的记忆保留

创建图表来显示出不同概念之间的关系而且这是展示出不同连接点关系最佳的表达方式。当你有各种各样的句子、概念等的连接，即使你忘记了其中一个句子，你也可以通过别的连接关系上。所以创建图表来展示不同的表达方式是很重要的。

图表有助于巩固刚刚学到的短语和概念，因为它能列出和重组大量的信息，将所有内容都放在一起并理解它们是如何连接到一起，也就扩充了第二步骤提到的“连接不同单词”的理念了。打个比方，如果我们按照第二步骤给的建议，我们将“Haughty(傲慢)”和“Pride(骄傲)”联系在一起（假设它们是一个短语的一部分），然后接下来我们一旦把整个图表画出来，我们会意识到这两个词都可以追溯到“Confidence(信心)”这个很基本的英语单词。当然，这个技巧也适用于英语语法规则中。

通过图表，所有更复杂的短语，词汇，甚至语法规则，我们都可以追溯到更容易的词根形式。

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4.Using your senses as the final part of reinforcing them

用你的感官作为巩固它们的最后一部分

如 步骤3所述，图表是一种非常直观的学习方式，也属于思维导图，而思维导图可以直接定义为将任何人想的点子展示出类似于一个地图的形式，让这些单词以千丝万缕的联系浮现出来。

另一种学习方式是听觉学习，它指的是使用声音以及任何与听觉有关的学习工具。我们可以将图表转化为可听的连接信息，这种应用是一个非常明智的学习方法，因为它可以通过声音不断地在大脑重复新学到的短语、单词甚至语法规则，他们在你的脑海里一遍又一遍循环播放，让你经过这种“潜意识洗脑”而记住单词。

当然了，听觉学习并不适合每个人，所以可能是需要运用知觉式或视觉学习以满足个人不同的学习需求。

5.Confirming your understanding and word retention: Community-based peer learning and teaching others

确认你的理解和词汇保留:基于社区的同伴学习和教导他人

大多数学习环境都是中型到大型的课堂，撇开鼓励互动，坦率地说，中大型课堂只是为了降低每个人头的成本。如果你读过我以前的文章，我坚决反对1对1学习。

当有更多人在一起学习，就如“社会化的同伴学习”，并试图解释给彼此新的单词、短语和语法规则以及他们的连接，绝对比一个大脑（自己）更有效，因为当你有更多人一起的时候，集思广益，新的想法和连接是更快的。社会化的同伴学习意思就是在团队之间互相合作，试图集思广益，Brainstorm(头脑风暴)新的概念出来。这是非常重要的，因为可以将所有学过的短语与新的连接到一起，一直重复他们和不断想出新的图表和其他用途。即使英语水平不相等也并不重要，因为在创建新连接时，它是关于数量的，毕竟你自己的理解力足以过滤任何不正确的连接，所以不要担心创建新的连接。

如果独自一人学习，哪怕有一个导师帮助你，你会使用所有这些新的单词、短语和语法规则连接慢得多，这意味着你对单词的理解将以更慢的速度进行。

最后，根据“学习金字塔”，简单地向其他人讲授信息证明了对学习的最终掌握的材料的理解，我将在本系列文章的下一部分进一步阐述学习金字塔究竟如何使用，因此请继续关注!

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——————————以下为Andy老师英文原稿——————————

If you already know a few phrases but you're inundated with a massive list of new words and feel like you cannot memorize that many words., then fear not. Let me let you in on a little secret, rote memory is needed but it should be only for 20% of the learning, whereas most students use it for 100% of learning new words, phrases or even grammar clauses. This is a very foolish and unscientific way of learning!

So without further ado here are 5 steps I highly recommend you use:

1.Converting words and new concepts (grammar, content etc) into phrases you already understand

Well, one of the leading furniture companies in China, Suofeiya, has really awesome closets that can store clothes neatly and make your entire room layout much more organized than just leaving your clothes lying around everywhere(I know you love my shameless plug). However, your brain isn’t like a closet, rather it’s more like a web of billions of zillions of neurons interlaced, which is illogical because these neurons aren’t tidily tucked away like a closet is, so simply filing words away (aka rote memorization) doesn't make sense completely. Isn’t it more ideal to learn the way God made your brain, which is connecting different words together, rather than learning like storing clothes into a closet? I mean, let’s leave designing closests to the experts like Suofeiya, and how about you focus on learning properly.

2. Connecting Your newly built phrases to Existing phrases that you already understand

Like I mentioned above, rote memorization can only be utilized 20% of the time to lay the foundations for memory, but in terms of word/phrase/clause retention it is wholly insufficient unless your purpose of learning is only use it for an exam and then completely forget about it. As mentioned in step 1, it is highly important to connect different words and phrases with ones you already understand together.

3.Create diagrams as the first part of reinforcing newly learned phrases and concepts

Create diagrams showing the relationships between concepts, which helps illustrate these connections in a much better fashion. Once you have varied connections, then if you happen to forget one, you’ll remember the ideas through another, so it’s of utmost importance to create diagrams in different representations.

Diagrams helps reinforce newly learned phrases and concepts because it can help outline and rearrange large amount of information. This takes the connection part explained in step 2 further, which is laying everything out and understanding how they all connect. For instance, in step 2 we would have connected “haughty” and “pride” together (assuming they are part of a phrase), and then in our overall diagram we would realize that these two words all can be traced back to the basic word of “confidence”. The same of course can be applied to English grammar clauses.

Through diagrams, more complex phrases, vocabulary words and even clauses can be traced back to an easier root form.

4.Using your senses as the final part of reinforcing them

As mentioned in step 3, diagrams is a very visual way of learning that also falls under mindmapping, which is a literal definition for mapping out what one’s mind is thinking of.

A different way of learning is auditory learning, which refers to using sound, audio mnemonic devices and anything that relates to the sense of hearing. Converting diagrams into audible pieces of connecting information is a great way to apply this, and repeating any videos out loud that rehash the learning of the newly introduced clauses, phrases and words also helps.

Of course, auditory learning is not for everyone, so it may be ideal to apply kinesthetic or expand on visual learning to suit one’s learning needs.

5.Confirming your understanding and word retention: Community-based peer learning and teaching others

Most learning environments have mid-sized to large-sized classes not because of encouraging interaction, but quite frankly it is simply to lower costs per head. If you’ve read my previous articles, I am firmly against 1 on 1 learning.

Having more people work together, as per “community-based peer learning”, and trying to explain things to each other, is a lot more effective than only having one brain (yourself), because brainstorming new ideas and connections is a lot faster when you have volume. Community-based peer learning is simply working with one another in a group and trying to brainstorm concepts together. This is very important because you are then applying all then repeating all the learned phrases, connecting them with new ones and constantly coming up with new diagrams and other usage applications. It doesn’t matter if the English levels aren’t equal, because it’s all about volume when you are creating new connections. Your own understanding is powerful enough to filter out the inaccuracies, so worry about creating new connections.

If doing it alone, you are making all these connections a lot slower, which means your understanding of the words is going to proceed at a much slower pace.

Finally, as per the learning pyramid, teaching information to someone else in simple terms proves an understanding of the material which is the ultimate mastery of learning, which I will elaborate further on in the next part of this article series, so stay tuned.

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Andy的简介：

- Multicultural and multilingual: Grew up and lived in a number of countries, American-born Chinese - （Third Culture Kid） 多文化和多语言: 在多个国家成长和居住；美籍华人 - 典型第三文化人士(TCK)

- Leader in empowering corporate training and recruitment professionals with assessment methodologies and project-based learning andragogy 为企业培训和招聘人士提供领先评估体系和游戏化的项目式学习的职场教学法的领袖

- Decade of experience in education and training, and expert in China 十年以上的学生教育和企业培训的经验: 并被很多本土和国外人士称为“中国通”

- Regular community event organizer with expertise in workplace gamification for employees 定期社区活动的组织者: 游戏化员工体系的主题

- UC Berkeley Alumni Club Ex-Leader and Recruitment Ambassador 毕业于世界名校加州伯克利大学并担任校友俱乐部前任负责人和前任招生大使

- Third-party Interviewer for College Admissions 美国第三方面试官 (很多大学现在需要学生在提交申请书与第三方机构进行面试)

- Helped build a number of college admissions counseling departments 负责搭建多个海外升学指导中心

- Unlike most “education experts”, personally attended more than a dozen schools growing up and personally went through the AP, IB, British, Singaporean and Hong Kong education systems相比其他所谓的“教育专家”，从小上过十几所学校，亲自体验过AP、IB、英国、新加坡和香港的教育制度

- Recently, created China’s first bilingual entrepreneurial and innovation educational events organization: Center for Youth Business Facilitation

在这一两年间，建立了中国第一个双语创新创业学习的活动平台: CYBF创习国际交流中心