我眼中的英语：a friend who accompanied me through all the difficulties.
我最喜欢的英语读物：《21st Century》
我最喜欢的一本书：《The Da Vin Code》
比赛成绩：全国总决赛大学成人组星光奖
我是这样学英语的
My View of Memorizing Vocabulary
I often hear people complaining about the difficulty of remembering vocabulary, some even consider memorizing a certain amount of new words everyday as tormenting exercise, because they associate the process of memorizing vocabulary to tediousness, which require extra persistence to pull it through, others regard vocabulary as something that is easy to remember, but much easier to forget. While my suggestion is that you focus on the words that are frequently used in daily communication.
When you read English newspapers, magazines or textbooks, don't pick out every new word for you to memorize, you could simply make a judgment before spending time on them. Only choose the word that has meaning to you, I mean those you would probably use in your own life later on. Then, after getting acquainted to these words, try to bear them in mind wherever you go, to see whether you can reanimate these words against the present background. Just let your imagination go wild, and make a sentence or two upon your surroundings with new words. So when you come back and relive the situation you just experienced, it is much likely that the sentence you created just now would surface as well.
However, this way of remembering new words just help you have a deep impression at the beginning, as for an indelible understanding of new words; you'd better refer to them as often as possible.
One good choice is to read newspapers. Newspapers generally use luminous and practical words, and it seems that they have the same fixed set of vocabulary, which means you may find the same cluster of words applying to the similar topics in every issue. That enables you to consolidate your vocabulary steadily. But this is of course a passive way of remembering your words, so perhaps you could write down some sparkling sentences in the newspaper, and then try to read it several times a day, because putting new words in the context is much better and meaningful way of memorizing them, and you will better understand the words in the similar structure.
Listening to VOA or BBC is another good choice. It functions mainly as newspapers, but the difference is that, listening stimulates the audio differentiation of new words while reading helps more in the form of shape and order.
Finally, you should know, Rome is not built in a day, so memorizing vocabulary still needs a lot of time and energy.
I could still recall the moment my friends and I were arrested by the performance of American cyclist Lance Armstrong. He is a magnet with millions of eyes fixed on him and he is a hero who won the struggle against cancer. “But we couldn’t be such a whopper!” a friend suddenly cried out.
It makes some sense, but don’t you think the name of the game is to participate, and that’s how I interpret the sprit of Olympics.
For example, you want to be an athlete in 2008 Beijing Olympics, but apparently, it is beyond your wildest dreams since you couldn’t win anything from your school sports meeting. If so, why not just call together your younger brothers, sisters and little kids in your neighborhood to have a small Olympics ever assembled. Interesting, isn’t it? “Any alternative”, some may ask, yes, be an athletic reporter.
So, everyone gets involved in the spell of Olympics and that’s when you see the dream of ours takes wings.
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