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笑来老师:您好!我是一个留美的phd学生,三年前还在新东方上过您的托福课.:)看您的blog收益很大,所以还推荐给朋友们看.
虽然以前背过很多单词,gre也考的不错(语文610),但是还是觉得词汇量很不够.专业课就还好,但是日常交流还有困难(可能跟我美剧电影看得太少有关).最近开始看一些英文的文学读物.我想问问我应该每个词都查字典然后抄下来呢,还是猜猜意思大概明白就好了.我不仅仅想通过看书提高思想,也想提高英文.换句话说,我对时间的感觉还是不够好,很多时候想选择一个最佳的时间方案,还不能做好.不过,我已经开始练习记录每天的时间了,对很多事情也开始有耐心,给自己不定太高的目标.谢谢您,我觉得您写的时间管理特别让我受启发,还让我妈妈开来着.呵呵.
早就考过GRE，已经在美国读书了，然而依然感受到自己的交流有困难，这样的时候问题不是出在词汇量上，而是出自过往积累词汇量之时的坏习惯：1) 背单词不造句——即，只记不用；2) 孤立背单词——即，词汇之间的联系不完整。
给你两个建议：
- 大量读书的情况下，仔细记笔记。“猜猜意思大概明白就好了”好像很省时间，却会让你一生都处于目前的状态，甚至可能更糟；“学一个搞定一个，认真记录，不留后遗症”的做法看起来慢，但如果你最初就是这么做的，早就脱离今天这种状态了。
- 通读《Oxford Collocation Dictionary for Students of English》可能是最快、最好的方法。觉得有必要的话，就去买一本印刷版。
牛津英语搭配词典-(英汉双解版)
译者: 张德禄
作者: 克劳瑟
ISBN: 9787560056357
页数: 1791
出版社: 外语教学与研究出版社
价格: 89元
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It is important to improve your vocabulary. But it is also important to improve your sentence structures so that 1) you can understand what the sentences say, 2) you get so familiar with the sentence structures and ways to express yourself so that you can do that without thinking.
Guessing at the meaning is good, so is looking it up in a dictionary. But I find the best is guess what the meaning is, and then look it up in a dictionary. If you are getting good at guessing, you are there.
My way to remember sentence structures, expressions and idioms is to read – out loud, so that your ear is getting familiar with the sound of the language, your mouth is getting used to say things correctly, and you start to tell what is the right sound for good English and what is not. Pick books, mostly fictions and stories, with conversations. You learn how to do conversation too. But the important part is, read out loud.
I find writing down the meaning of words worthless. It make me think that after I write it down, I remember it, which I don’t. I rather read more than just the meaning of the word, but also how it can be used. Make up some sentences with it in all its variations, tense, and parts of speech.
Another technique I use to enhance my comprehension is parsing. I parses long and complicated sentences – especially those encountered in technical journals – to really understand all the phrases in a sentence and their relation with each other. Then I practice by writing the same idea in short sentences, without loosing or adding meaning. Also write with words different from the original but carries the same meaning.
Parsing — good suggestion!
Oxford Collocation Dictionary for Students of English不是一本字典吗,我长这么大中文的任何一本字典都没有通读过,要读完一本字典需要多久阿.笑来能不能提供点具体的所谓通读这本字典的方法,听起来是不可能完成的事.
读书是需要时间的，如果内心感觉真的有必要读的话，读就是了，何必在意要花多长时间呢。多年以来我也有这种浮躁的心理，总觉得学英语要花太长的时间了，于是八、九年过去了，买的书还是干干净净的。直到去年10月，老婆走了之后，我才重新捡起来，我从新二学起，四五个月过去，课已经 听完了，目前正在强化中，目标只有一个：全部课文脱口而出，能够熟练运用新二课文的句型造句及口语交流。老婆问我，什么时候开始学新三啊，我说要把新二彻底翻熟搞烂再说。步步为营。笑来曾说要达到相对可以交流的水平大概要1到2年的时间，他说的更重要的一句话是要有耐心！耐心！
第二个建议如何落实呢？请老师细说一下
通读词典？哆嗦了～～～
看原著查起来都痛苦，通读？笑老师打错了？
笑来，Oxford Collocation Dictionary for Students of English 在http://www.amazon.com 有多个版本，请问您推荐的是哪个版本的，谢谢一直以来的精彩推荐
已经找到了，不用麻烦了：）
your mouth is getting used to saying things correctly
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