How to memorize English words forever: the spaced repetition method. How to easily remember new words

Do you want to know how to learn English words quickly and easily? We'll tell you how many words you need to know, where to get them, what tools to use, and how to learn it all. Use at least a few tips and you can expand your vocabulary.

All students are interested in the question: “How to learn English words?” The more vocabulary we know, the better we understand what the heroes of our favorite English films are talking about, what is written on the Tate Modern museum plaques, and how favorable the terms of the deal are offered by our partners from the USA. Today we will give some recommendations that will help you effectively learn new vocabulary.

How many English words do you need to know?

To test your vocabulary, we recommend that you take the Online English Vocabulary Size Test (immediately click on the Start button) or Test Your Vocab. It will show you your estimated vocabulary, which you can compare with the average scores of native speakers and English learners. On average, 3,000 - 4,000 words will be enough to communicate on most topics.

However, we want to warn you: you should not rely entirely on the test results. It can only give a rough estimate of your vocabulary.

2. Special textbooks

Textbooks to increase your vocabulary will help you learn new words and common expressions in which they are used. The good thing about the manuals is that they provide lists of words along with examples of their use, so the words are learned in context. We have presented a detailed one, follow it to choose the best guide.

3. Lists or dictionaries of high-frequency words

How do you know whether it’s worth remembering the next new English word you come across? It may have fallen out of use or is rarely used. You can refer to lists of words that are most often used by native speakers. We recommend you lists from the Oxford Dictionary - The Oxford 3000 British Dictionary and The Oxford 3000 American Dictionary. These are the 3,000 most important words any English learner should know. They have been carefully selected by linguists and experienced teachers. You can recognize these words in the Oxford dictionary itself by the key icon.

Tools for learning new words

1. Cards with words

This technique may seem old-fashioned, but it is still effective. All students at least once in their lives started flashcards and tried to learn new vocabulary from them. It's convenient and affordable: you don't need to spend money, because you write them yourself, and you can take the cards with you anywhere.

Before making cards, you need help:

• select a translation;
• become familiar with typical phrases in which the word is used;
• study examples.

Then you need to decide whether you will make paper vocabulary cards or electronic ones.

• On one side of the piece of paper we write the word in English, on the second - in Russian. We test our knowledge: translate a word from Russian into English and vice versa.

  

• On one side we write the word in English and paste a picture, on the other - the translation into Russian. This method is well suited for people with associative thinking. In your mind you associate a new English-language concept and the object that it refers to.

  

• On the one hand, we write a word in English with a Russian context, on the other hand, a word in Russian without context. When repeating vocabulary, try to translate the concept from Russian into English. And the second side of the card with the Russian context will help you with translation in the opposite direction.

  

• More experienced students are advised to use English-English dictionaries, such as Macmillan Dictionary. On one side we write the word in English, on the other - its definition in English. You can also write synonyms and antonyms of the concept being studied.

  

• How to learn vocabulary correctly? The best way to memorize English words is in context. Therefore, you can write on a card not just a word, but a sentence in which it is used. Examples of sentences can be found in electronic dictionaries, for example ABBYY Lingvo.

  

Electronic cards

If you find it difficult to tear yourself away from your computer, use your affection for good: create virtual stickers with words on your desktop and in a few days you will remember them well.

To create electronic vocabulary cards, we recommend you the Quizlet service, which allows you to learn words in different ways: choose the correct translation from four proposed ones, fill in the gaps in sentences and play games with words. Here you can track your progress: which words are harder for you than others, how quickly you learn new vocabulary. There is an application for iOS as well. An alternative resource is Memrise. Its free version has limited functionality, but it will be enough to create cards.

You need to constantly work with cards: review and repeat the learned vocabulary. Periodically change the cards for new ones, and after 1-2 weeks return the old ones again to repeat the words.

2. Notepad-dictionary

This method is good for those who constantly lose something: your cards are unlikely to last long :-)

You can structure your notebook the way you want. Let's give our version. Each page must correspond to a specific day. Write the dates on which the words are repeated at the top. To ensure that the vocabulary you are studying is well fixed in your memory, do not forget to train it. To do this, use the techniques we described in the article “”.

3. Mind map

You can easily learn English words of the same topic if you draw a mind map. This diagram clearly shows what topic the words relate to. And while you are drawing it, the vocabulary will be stored in your memory. A mind map might look like this:

4. Educational sites and applications

On the way to work on the subway or in line at the clinic, use every free moment to learn new words. You will find useful programs for your gadget in the article “”.

It is enough to practice 10-20 minutes daily to feel progress.

1. Combine words by topic

How to easily remember English words? Groups of words related to the same topic are usually well remembered. Therefore, try to divide words into groups of 5-10 pieces and learn them.

There is the so-called Restorff effect, according to which the human brain remembers the most prominent one from a group of objects. Use this effect to your advantage: in the group of words on the same topic “introduce a stranger” - enter a word from a completely different topic. For example, when studying words on the topic “Fruits”, add one word from the topic “Transport” to them, in this way your studies will become even more effective.

2. Use associations and personalization

Many students love this method: to learn a word, you need to come up with an association in Russian. For example, you need to remember the word obstinacy. Break it down into three syllables: ob-stin-acy, which means “stubborn, like a donkey against a wall.” The word shoot can be remembered as “the jester shoots.” You can make up convenient associations yourself, the main thing is that they are understandable to you and easy to remember. This will make it easier for you to increase your English vocabulary.

Training will be effective if you not only make a verbal association, but also visualize it: when pronouncing the word shoot, imagine this shooting jester, let the image turn out to be as funny and memorable as possible. Even better is a dynamic picture with your personal presence: you imagine how the jester next to you shoots someone (with a water pistol, so that the spectacle comes out comical, not tragic). The more vivid the picture, the easier it will be to remember the word.

3. Use the learned vocabulary in speech

How to learn English words correctly and not forget them? Are you familiar with the principle of use it or lose it? In order for knowledge to remain in memory, you need to actively “use” it. It is good practice to write short stories using new words. The vocabulary that is best remembered is expressed in a short, funny text written about yourself or about things dear to your heart.

If you take courses or study with an English teacher, try to insert new words into your conversation as often as possible: the more times you say a word, the better you remember it. Don't forget about spelling: try to use new words in writing.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Tell me and I'll forget. Teach me and I will remember. Make me do it and I'll learn.

Learn new words and immediately use them in your speech with the help.

4. Test your knowledge regularly

It is useful to take various tests to determine your vocabulary level from time to time. For example, some excellent picture tests (a joy for visual learners and children) are provided on the Vocabulary for learners of English page. After passing such a test, you will immediately see what is stored in your memory and which topics or words need to be repeated.

5. Follow your daily plan

7. Develop your memory

It is impossible to remember anything unless you have a good memory. Learning a language in itself trains our brain well and helps improve memory. But to make memorization easier, you can use the tips from our article “”.

8. Consider your type of information perception

Not all methods are equally good for you. Don't try to apply everything at once. Try text, video or audio formats and choose those that help you learn new words faster. This is how you will arrive at your own signature mix of techniques.

The main thing is to remember to move from theory to practice. Not only read useful tips on how to memorize English words quickly and easily, but also actively use them in everyday life, then you won’t have to rack your brains about how to improve your level of knowledge.

Do you consider cards and notepads with the words “yesterday”? Then try learning words using current British textbooks in online English courses at our school. Our students learn words and phrases in context, use them in a live dialogue with the teacher, and memorize new vocabulary easily and quickly. !

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Vocabulary matters a lot. If you know the words, you understand what it’s about, even without knowing the intricacies of grammar. If you don’t know the words, you communicate like Ellochka the cannibal. Today we are talking about how to remember a lot and for a long time.

Conventional learning of words has low efficiency. For example, over 11 years of the school program, students memorize an average of 1-1.5 thousand words. To speak like a native speaker, you need to know at least 8 thousand words; the Upper-Intermediate level requires knowledge of 6 thousand words. To understand CNN news, which is created taking into account the interest of a foreign audience, you need to know at least 3 thousand words.

Using traditional methods, it is easy to learn up to 10 words in one go, but only a few can remember 30 or 50 new words in one day.

Everyone who learns a foreign language faces the following problems:

Words are quickly forgotten if they are not repeated;
- it is very difficult to learn many words at once;
- people simply don’t know how to learn words effectively;
- when a word enters short-term memory, a person stops working with it.

Why is that?

German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus conducted research on “pure” memory - memorization that is not influenced by thinking processes. To do this, the scientist proposed a method of learning meaningless syllables consisting of two consonants and a vowel between them, which do not evoke any semantic associations.

During the experiments, it was found that after the first error-free repetition of a series of such syllables, forgetting occurs very quickly. Already within the first hour, up to 60% of all information received is forgotten; 10 hours after memorization, 35% of what was learned remains in memory. Further, the process of forgetting proceeds much more slowly and after six days about 20% of the total number of initially learned syllables remains in memory, and the same amount remains in memory after a month.

After a series of experiments, Ebbinghaus developed the Forgetting Curve (also called the Ebbinghaus Curve) in 1885. Based on it, the following conclusion was made: for effective memorization, repetition of memorized material is necessary.

To remember information for a long time, after studying it, you need to repeat it at least five times:

1. 20-30 minutes after the first study;
2. after a couple of hours;
3. the next day;
4. in 1-2 weeks;
5. 2-3 months after the fourth repetition.

Using traditional methods (and repetition is one of them) it will not be easy to achieve a great effect. Effective methods are little known, so learning many words at once is very difficult.

Other traditional methods

- Learn with the help of a dictionary, in order
Boring and ineffective. The words start the same but have different meanings, making them difficult to remember. Also, you don't know in what context the word is being used.

If you want to use a dictionary, it is more convenient to make a list of words on a specific topic, for example, select the category “Clothing” or “Travel”. A community of related words is easier to remember.

- Learn using sticker cards
On one side of the card we write the word in Russian, on the other - in English. You need to spend time making cards, but you can carry them with you and repeat the words whenever you have a free minute. If you don’t want to bother with paper, you can download a special application to your smartphone.

- Learn words in context
For example, when watching TV series or movies. For beginners, it’s better to start with TV series; you can watch them with subtitles. There is no need to memorize an unfamiliar word separately. Write down or copy an entire sentence from the subtitles at once. This way you will remember in what situations it can be used.

Method of associations or “Mnemonics”

The Mnemonics method is gaining popularity.
The main principle of this technique is to remember information by building visual connections between a word and its meaning.

Facts about mnemonics:

Scientists have found that the human brain is best at creating visual connections.
- The method appeared 2.5 thousand years ago. It was used by the ancient Greeks, including the famous thinker Socrates.
- Mnemonics gives quick results. Any person, if desired, can achieve a memorization speed of 100 words per hour or higher.

Why mnemonics?

- The visual lobes, which are most involved when using this technique, are the most powerful in the human brain, since they contain the most neurons.
- Any word in a person’s head has a meaning in the form of a specific picture. By building associations, neural connections arise; they can be compared to a wire connecting a word to a picture, for example, when we hear the word “dog,” we imagine a dog.
- Associations are the shortest way to access any information. For example, you heard a familiar song, and you remember a situation in which you heard it before.
- This technique has shown really excellent results in practice - after a few training sessions you can remember 100-300 words per approach.

Algorithm

Step 1
Present a bright, concrete picture. Let's say you want to learn the word fist, you need to vividly imagine a clenched fist.

Step 2
Find an association with a similar sound to a Russian word. Fist in English fist. You can, for example, imagine a pistachio clenched in your fist. Absurd and funny associations are best remembered: the brighter the better. It is also worth creating your own associations, as they will be more vividly remembered.

Step 3
Combine the association with the picture. The picture depicting the word and the association picture must be visually connected. For example, remembering the word crown, you can imagine a crane lifting a crown. If the crane and the crown are simply next to each other in your imagination, there will be no effect; it is better to imagine that the crane is lifting the crown by the edge or on a rope. It is better to imagine a huge crown, since large objects are better remembered. You can also add a certain sound or music playing in the background, which you would associate with the crown.

Step 4
Repeat the memorized word out loud 4-5 times in English, raising your eyes slightly upward, as if looking at the bridge of your nose. Scientists have found that with this eye position, the largest number of neurons are activated. You need to keep your eyes open, if you remember with your eyes closed, then you will remember with your eyes closed.

Step 5
Repeat the words - at least after an hour or two, every other day and every month. High-quality associations are stored in memory for a month. If you do everything according to the algorithm with repetition, you will remember the words for years.

Common mistakes

- Trying to learn everything at once
Many people start studying intensively, wanting to learn English in a week or a month, and quickly give up. It is much more effective to allocate a little time, for example, half an hour, but every day. This way the brain will have time to process the information and there won’t be too much interruption that the word will be forgotten. At the same time, your memory will be in good shape, and there will be no overload.

- Immediately learn complex words that do not correspond to the level of knowledge of the language
If a word is difficult to even pronounce, there is no point in learning it. Beginners need to learn the most common words, this is about 400 words. More than half of them are verbs. Start easy and increase difficulty.

- Don't repeat what you've learned
Without repetition, new words are forgotten.

- Memorize without understanding the context
You won't be able to use new words if you don't know in what situations they are used.

- Learn incorrect pronunciation
You must first listen to the correct pronunciation, even if you know the reading rules well. A good site for listening is wooordhunt.ru.

- The more practice, the better.
Experience has shown that after 300 words learned, mistakes disappear, associations appear in the imagination very quickly and the ending of a word is well remembered, even if the association is consonant only with its beginning.
- It is important to learn quickly, without delaying.
For example, choose a thematic list, set a timer and read all the words in one minute.
- Increase the load gradually.
- Move from simple to more complex words.
Choose the simplest ones that are easiest to learn. Then take five minutes to learn them and rest for five minutes. Then learn more complex words from this list.
- Combine words into groups by topic and part of speech.
It is better to learn nouns first, then adjectives, then verbs.

And the most important thing

• Share your successes with friends to keep you motivated.
• Reward your successes to get used to the fact that learning is good.
• Develop memory in general, not only in English.
• Practice the words you've learned in conversation clubs to finally consolidate the words in context.

By the way, we just have an excellent free section on the site. In it we tried to take into account all the components of successful memorization of words. You can choose from ready-made sets of words, as well as create your own. In addition, a lot of useful things await you: from videos and a blog to conversation clubs and classes with a teacher via Skype.

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What determines the effectiveness of teaching a foreign language? Of course, it depends on how rich your vocabulary is. We talk about 10 strategies and methods for quickly memorizing words in our article.

This method of memorizing new words has found dense numbers of admirers, but also the same number of opponents. The thing is that the latter express doubts about the effectiveness of the speed of memorizing the associative pair. Let's take a closer look.

Let's start with how our brain works when we see a written word. In its depths, ideas, images, pictures and even feelings are formed, a stable connection is formed between what the eyes saw and what the brain formed. Long-familiar material is connected with new material.

Close your eyes and imagine a tree, let it be a spreading oak or a slender birch tree. Now let's learn the word "tree", add three leaves to your tree. So, in your head there is an image - a tree with three leaves, which is now forever imprinted in your head as a tree.

How to create an analogy in the context of a whole sentence? Write the expression or sentence in the center of the paper. Have you recorded it? Direct rays from the sentence in different directions, each of which will end with a word, or better yet, a picture. Do not think at the moment about how accurate and correct the associations are, the main thing is to write them down.

Now, every time you hear one of the words, a whole association and visual image of the sentence will be restored in your head.

Advice! To make the method even more effective, speak out what you have written, especially if you consider yourself to be a person who perceives information better by ear.

Working “in pairs” - remembering phrases

It’s great if you’ve learned to quickly memorize individual words. But it is important to understand that English, like other languages, is not separate, disparate concepts, it is a system of connections for expressing thoughts. Therefore, examples of words should be looked for in context.

If you have already created a personal dictionary, and we believe that you have one, write down the words in the form of phrases. To remember the word “ugly,” write down “ugly duckling” and immediately remember Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling.” The next step is to compose at least 3-4 sentences with the learned phrase.

Memorize new words with pictures

According to statistics, more than 70% of people on earth are visual learners, which is why the learning process should be associated with the visual perception of an image. In your dictionary, next to each word, especially those that are difficult to remember, draw small pictures. Well, well, don’t grumble about the fact that you don’t know how to draw, it’s even better.

Every day our brain receives a huge amount of monotonous information, such unusual and funny pictures will become a kind of “surprise”, and surprises are very well remembered.

Write for your health

A large number of words are difficult to remember and we will not deny this fact. If you have to memorize a large array of words, make up a story with them; even an absurd story will become your reliable assistant.

Let's give an example. Words needed to remember: piano, shoes, tree, boy, bird, pencil, bus.

Look! There is a piano, it is sitting under the tree and wearing shoes. As for me, the tree is so strange, little boy has stuck pencil through it. A small bird is sitting on the pencil and looking for a bus.

In translation, the text is very bizarre and could pass for a bad joke, but our goal is new words, and for this it is quite suitable.

This method is suitable for studying adjectives, of which there are a huge number in the English language. To form pairs, you can choose antonyms or synonyms (words that are close and opposite in meaning).

The simplest example is the well-known adjectives: good/bad and bad/bum. Our brain is designed in such a way that we quickly remember opposite and similar things rather than isolated single concepts.

Word by composition

To analyze a word by its composition, you will have to remember the school curriculum, but a short recall of concepts such as suffix, prefix and root will greatly facilitate the process of learning new words.

Let's take the word “microbiology” as an example; you don’t have to be a polyglot to understand that the prefix “micro” means something small, and the suffix “-logy” in Latin means science. And now a chain is emerging - a science that studies something small, “bio” - living beings, which means we have before us a word denoting the science of microscopic organisms.

You can guess the translation of new words by studying the meaning of the most common prefixes and suffixes. The former include ir-, im-, micro-, dis-, con-, un-, il- (usually have a negative or opposite meaning), the latter -ly, -able, -ive, -tion, -ent.

• Il-- used with words starting with the consonant l:

  Logical - illogical (logical - illogical); legible - illegible (legible about handwriting - illegible).

• Ir-- used with words starting with the consonant r:

  Responsible - irresponsible (responsible - irresponsible); replaceable - irreplaceable (replaceable - irreplaceable).

• Im-- usually used before adjectives starting with the consonant r:

  Polite - impolite (polite - impolite); personal - impersonal (personal - impersonal).

Choose the right time

Psychologists who work on the study of memorization processes have long developed the most optimal scheme for learning new material.

It is necessary to use a new word immediately after becoming familiar with it, then after 10 minutes, after an hour, after a day, and always after a week. After this, the likelihood of forgetting the word is reduced to a minimum.

Stickers and cards are a great solution for learning words

You may not like this next idea, but it will definitely make your learning fun and entertaining. Place stickers with English names on everything in your apartment. This way you will learn not only a huge array of vocabulary, but also learn how to quickly reproduce a graphic image.

The method has one, but very significant drawback - it is limited to the “Home” theme.

If you don't want to limit yourself, replace the stickers with cards with words written on the back. At your discretion, words can be divided into topics or according to another principle convenient for you.

The undoubted advantage is that your training material will always be at hand and you can plunge into the learning process even on a long journey.

Folklore to improve vocabulary

If you want to learn new words not only quickly, but also in a fun way, use sayings, proverbs, short rhymes and tongue twisters. All this is a great way to expand your vocabulary and form correct pronunciation. In addition, you have an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with the culture of the people whose language you are studying with such diligence.

Remember the game “Snowball”, where a new word was added to each line; the English language is also full of such poems, for example, the well-known “The house that Jack built”. This method of memorizing words not only expands your vocabulary, but also trains your memory.

Listen and read

And of course, do not forget about the lexical load that comes with reading and listening to texts. The advantage of reading is that expanding your vocabulary becomes a necessity, and memorization occurs through repeated repetition of words in the text. Therefore, choose interesting books for yourself that you would enjoy reading.

The audiolinguistic method will appeal to those who consider themselves to be auditory learners and are good at remembering information perceived by ear. The advantage of watching films and listening to texts is that you will quickly get rid of the accent, but it would be unfair not to mention the disadvantage - the lack of a visual image of the word in memory.

Video with tips on how to memorize new English words:

Of course, the basis of the language system is grammar, but without an established lexical base, knowledge of grammatical norms for a beginner is unlikely to be useful anywhere. Therefore, we will devote today’s lesson to replenishing our vocabulary and mastering techniques for quickly memorizing new vocabulary. There will be quite a lot of expressions in the material, so we recommend dividing these English words for study into each day in advance, working on 2-3 dozen new phrases and be sure to repeat already studied examples. Before moving on to practice, let’s find out how it is recommended to learn foreign words correctly.

Learning vocabulary is half the battle; it is also important to try to constantly use it, otherwise it will simply be forgotten. Therefore, the main principle of learning English words is not to strive to memorize absolutely every word you come across. In modern English there are about 1.5 million words and stable combinations. It is simply unrealistic to learn everything, so try to choose only the vocabulary that is most used and necessary for you personally.

Let's assume that you have already decided on your area of ​​interest, selected the necessary vocabulary material and started learning it. But things don’t move forward: words are slowly remembered and quickly forgotten, and every lesson turns into unimaginable boredom and a painful struggle with oneself. Here are some tips that will help you create the right learning atmosphere and learn a foreign language easily and effectively.

1. Combine words by meaning, creating thematic dictionaries: animals, pronouns, action verbs, communication in a restaurant, etc.. Generalized groups are more easily stored in memory, forming a kind of associative block.
2. Try different ways to learn words until you find the method that works best for you. These can be popular cards, interactive online simulators, stickers pasted on various objects in the house, and applications for tablets and phones. If you perceive information better visually and auditorily, then actively use educational video and audio recordings. You can study in any way, the main thing is that the learning process is a pleasant pastime, and not a boring duty.
3. Immediately remember how to pronounce the word. To do this, you must either refer to the transcription or use interactive resources. A program for learning the pronunciation of English words will not only help you remember the sound of the expression, but will also check how correctly you pronounce it.
4. Don't throw away words you've already learned. This is a very important point. It seems to us that if we learn words for a long time, we remember them once and for all. But memory tends to delete unclaimed information. Therefore, if you do not have constant speaking practice, replace it with regular repetitions. You can create your own notebook with days and rotating repetitions, or use one of the interactive English learning apps.

Having worked through these tips, let's do a little practice. We bring to the attention of students the most popular vocabulary of the English language. These English words are suitable for studying every day, as they are divided into several tables and presented in the form of small semantic groups. So, let's start expanding our vocabulary.

Let'slearnsomewords!

English words to learn for every day

Greetings and farewells
hello	, [hello]	Hello, welcome!
hi	,[hai]	Hello!
good morning	[ɡʊd mɔːnɪŋ], [good morning]	Good morning!
good afternoon	[ɡʊd ɑːftənuːn], [good aftenun]	Good afternoon!
good evening	[ɡʊd iːvnɪŋ], [gud ivnin]	Good evening!
good bye	[ɡʊd baɪ], [good bye]	Goodbye!
see you later	, [si yu leite]	see you!
good night	[ɡʊd naɪt], [good knight]	Good night!

Pronouns
I - my	, [ai - may]	I am mine, mine, mine
you - your	, [yu - er]	you are yours, yours, yours
he-his	, [hee - hee]	he - his
she - her	[ʃi - hə(r)], [shi - dick]	she her
it – its	,[it - its]	it is his (oh inanimate)
we – our	, [vi - aar]	we are ours
they - their	[ðeɪ - ðeə(r], [zey - zeer]	they - theirs
who - whose	, [xy - xyz]	who - whose
what	,[wat]	What

PhrasesForacquaintance
My name is...	,[may name from]	My name is…
What is your name?	, [wat from yer name]	What is your name?
I am…(Nancy)	,[Ay um...Nancy]	I...(name) Nancy
How old are you?	,[How old ar yu]	How old are you?
I am...(eighteen, thirsty)	,[Ay em atin, sit down]	I am ...(18, 30) years old.
Where are you from?	,[ware ar yu from]	Where are you from?
I am from…(Russia, Ukraine)	,[Im from Russia, Ukraine]	I'm from (Russia, Ukraine)
Nice to meet you!	,[nice tu mit yu]	Nice to meet you!

Close people and family members
mother	,[maze]	mother
father	,[phase]	father
daughter	,[doute]	daughter
son	,[san]	son
brother	,[braze]	Brother
sister	,[siste]	sister
grandmother	[ɡrænmʌðə],[grenmaze]	grandmother
grandfather	[ɡrænfɑːðə],[grenfase]	grandfather
uncle	[ʌŋkl],[unkl]	uncle
aunt	[ɑːnt],[ant]	aunt
friends	,[friends]	Friends
the best friend	[ðə best friend], [the best friend]	best friend

Places and institutions
hospital	,[hospital]	hospital
restaurant, cafe	,[restrant, cafey]	restaurant, cafe
police office	,[palace office]	police station
hotel	,[wanted]	hotel
club	,[club]	club
shop	[ʃɒp],[shop]	shop
school	,[whining]	school
airport	,[eapoot]	airport
railway station	,[railway station]	train station, railway station
cinema	,[cinema]	cinema
post office	,[post office]	Postal office
library	,[library]	library
park	,[pack]	a park
pharmacy	,[faamesi]	pharmacy

Verbs
feel	,[Phil]	feel
eat	,[it]	eat, eat
drink	,[drink]	drink
go/walk	[ɡəʊ/ wɔːk],[ gou/uook]	go/ walk, walk
have	,[hev]	have
do	,[du]	do
can	,[ken]	be able to
come	,[cam]	come
see	,[si]	see
hear	,[[heer]	hear
know	,[know]	know
write	,[wright]	write
learn	,[linen]	teach, learn
open	[əʊpən],[open]	open
say	,[say]	speak
work	,[walk]	work
sit	,[sit]	sit
get	[ɡet],[get]	receive, become
like	,[like]	like

Time
time	, [time]	time
at … (5, 7) o’clock	[ət faɪv, sevn ə klɒk],[et fife, sevn o klok]	at...(five, seven) o'clock.
a.m.	,[I Am]	until noon, from 00 to 12 (at night, in the morning)
p.m.	,[pi em]	afternoon, from 12 to 00 ( during the day, In the evening)
today	,[today]	Today
yesterday	,[yestaday]	yesterday
tomorrow	,[tumorou]	Tomorrow
in the morning	[ɪn ðə mɔːnɪŋ], [in ze morning]	in the morning
in the evening	[ɪn ðə iːvnɪŋ], [in the evening]	In the evening

Adverbs
here	,[hie]	Here
there	[ðeə],[zee]	there
always	[ɔːlweɪz],[oulways]	Always
well	,[wel]	Fine
only	[əʊnli],[onli]	only
up	[ʌp],[ap]	up
down	,[down]	down
right	, [wright]	right, right
wrong	, [rong]	wrong
left	, [left]	left

Unions
that	[ðæt],[zet]	what, which, that
which	,[uich]	which one, which one
because	,[bicosis]	because
so	,[sou]	so, since
when	,[wen]	When
before	,[bifoo]	before before
but	,[baht]	But

The main problem when learning any foreign language is memorizing words. To solve this problem quickly and remember many constructions, the student takes up to 80% of the time and effort to master the active minimum. At this stage, the task of establishing competent pronunciation, fast and correct reading, and developing the skill of listening to foreign speech is solved. learning English words When starting to learn English, a person, first of all, asks a series of questions: how to make learning easier and more effective, how to memorize English words quickly, how to learn many words? Of course, modern linguists and polyglots have created a lot of ways to learn hundreds and thousands of lexemes, many phrases, and figures of speech quickly.

I'll tell you about the most popular ways to learn something:

• Associations
• Learning by heart

Ways to learn words quickly and a lot

The association technique is very simple. For each English word or concept, a similar-sounding Russian word is selected: lemon - lemon, nose - nose, tangerine - tangerine or mandarin. Our language even has words borrowed from foreign speech, and they have long been familiar to you: airport - airport, recruit - recruit, recruit, autobus - bus, aviation - aviation. Some neologisms also took English terms as their basis: browser, Internet, monitor, office, printer.

Therefore, you will always find something to associate with the concepts that you have to learn. In addition, a large number of English signs, like in Russian, consist of two bases:

• Overall - everywhere: over - above, above, excessively all - all, entirely
• Thunderstorm - thunderstorm: thunder - thunder storm - storm, storm (storm with thunder)
• Exchange - exchange: ex - former change - replacement, change
• Watermelon - watermelon: water - water melon - melon (water melon)

You can also associate situations. For example, to remember the word "fist" (fist), imagine a large pistachio that you smash with your fist.
learning words in English As for learning by heart, it is effective in two cases - if words are classified by consonance, when a group of words is similar in the first or last words. Or teach constructions in the second way - according to thematic classification, which is closer to me personally. This group also includes the most commonly used words and phrases. However, it is better to quickly fix words that are difficult to remember in memory by choosing a consonant analogue.

How to learn 100 words a day?

It is better to divide the process into 2 stages.

• Divide all the concepts that you are going to learn into one of the classifications: theme, consonance, associations
• Take the first hundred with translation in Russian
• Divide this portion into 5 equal parts
• Several times, before memorizing, read the first 20 in order, trying to remember the translation at the same time
• Don't spend more than 2 seconds learning one word
• Cover the transfer with a piece of paper
• Test yourself

• By tapping a rhythm to yourself with a pencil or using a metronome (1 sec), achieve recognition of each word in time with a rhythmic beat
• Immediately move on to the next portion - learn the next 20
• Repeat the steps and so on until the end of 100
• The clock should be in front of your eyes. Record the time you spent learning each twenty.
• Perform an easy check of the entire hundred
• Just read the words you've been taught
• Use a template: close the translation, leaving the original

learning English words Notes:

• Don't look back, repeat the words all the time and increase your daily portion
• The serving size should be increased gradually - from 100 to 500, from 500 to 1000. However, first make sure that the method is suitable for you and really helps you
• You need to learn only in one direction - that is, when you see an English word, remember Russian, and not vice versa
• The first 20 may take longer than the other group due to the newness
• Quickly memorizing a large number of words does not mean learning a language, you need to learn how to use them correctly in conversation
• But knowledge of English phrases is the basis for further study of the English language.

Quick learning of English words should also be parallel to the development of skills and abilities in constructing sentences, listening to English speech and establishing correct pronunciation. So have a good start!