How to increase your vocabulary

Hi, again. Welcome back to engVid.com. I'm Adam.

嗨! 欢迎再次回到engVid.com。我是Adam。

Today's lesson is meant to show you ways of increasing your vocabulary.

今天的课程是关于增加词汇量的方法。

I know some of the other teachers on engVid.com have done these lessons, I just want to throw my two cents in.

我知道其他来自engVid.com的老师已经教了相关课程，但我还想添加一些东西，你懂吗～ 就是说我想给出我自己的一点建议。

If you know what that means, it means I want to give my own piece of advice.

I have few ideas for you, we're going to start with these, we'll look at a few others, more practical ones as well.

我这里有几种方法，我们就从这儿开始，然后再看看其他的...以及那些更实用的。

The most important thing that you can do to increase your vocabulary is read, read a lot.

为了提高词汇量，最有效的方法是阅读，大量的阅读。

What should you read? Anything and everything, but the most important thing is: read what you are interested in, okay?

读什么内容呢？读什么都行。但是重要的是读那些你最感兴趣的书。

If you like sports, read a sports magazine. If you like movies, read a movie magazine, even better, read the script of the movie. If the movie is based on a novel, read the novel.

如果你喜欢体育..那就读体育杂志？如果你喜欢电影，那就看电影杂志..当然读这部电影的剧本就更好了。如果电影是小说改编的，那就读小说。

For example, recently the movie "Life of Pi" was very famous in the theaters, it's based on a novel, read the novel, it's a pretty good book.

比如说，最近有个电影叫少年派的奇幻漂流非常火，它就是基于小说改编的。 你可以读一下，这本书挺好的。

My favorite movie, "Shawshank Redemption", based on a novela by Stephen King, read it. Best way to increase your vocabulary.

我最喜欢的电影《肖申克的救赎》是根据斯蒂芬·金的小说改编的，你可以读读它。这是增加词汇量的最佳方式。

Also, don't just learn new words and try to remember them. Write, write a lot. Use the words you're learning, right?

此外，不要只学习并记住这些新词。去写作，大量的写作。用那些你学到的词去写。

Every time you learn a new word, you should have a notebook with you all the time anyway,

每词你学习新词的时候，你应该有一个随身携带的笔记本，把单词用在句子中，当然，不是随意的句子，要确保这句话清楚地表明你知道这个词的含义。

write the word in a sentence, but not just in any sentence, make sure that the sentence clearly shows that you know the meaning of the word.

So lets- For example, I know everybody knows this word, but "beautiful". Everybody knows this word, but let's say it's a new word for you.

例如，单词“beautiful”。每个人都知道这歌词，但你就把它当作新词。不要写“天空是美丽的”，因为它没有体现该词得意思，天空也是蓝色的，美丽的意思是蓝色的？当然不是！

Don't write "the sky is beautiful", it doesn't tell me anything about the word "beautiful", the sky is also blue, does beautiful mean blue? No.

Make sure you're using something. I love to see a beautiful sky that has pretty clouds and a sunshine and a nice color, a nice shade of blue because it makes me feel happy.

造句时要确保句子是有意义的。我喜欢看到一个美丽的天空有云漂亮和阳光和漂亮的颜色，蓝色的漂亮树荫因为它让我感到高兴。

Not the best example, it's a very long sentence, but you get my idea.

这不是最好的例子，因为这是一个很长的句子，但通过这个例子可以表达我的想法。现在，回来到笔记本上，总有一个笔记本，并与你一支笔，不要限制自己的一个新词，当你学会了一个新词时，确保了解同一个单词的不同形式。

Now, again, coming back to that notebook, always have a notebook with you, always have a pen with you,

and don't limit yourself to one new word. When you learn a new word, make sure you learn different forms of the same word, okay?

So, for example, the word 'beautiful', let's say this is a new word for you, you learned the word 'beautiful'.

因此，例如，单词“漂亮”，让我们假设这是一个新词。现在你学过“漂亮”，把它放在你的形容词列，这是一个形容词这就是你想要的，但为什么不试试学其他形式呢？

Put it in your adjective column, it's an adjective, that's what you want, but why not learn the other forms.

For example, what is the adverb form of "beautiful"?

I think most of you know it, it''s "beautifully".

So, you have now two new words. What is the noun form of "beautiful"? It's "beauty", you now have three new words in your vocabulary.

你现在掌握了两个新词。什么是美丽的名词形式？美丽，你现在在你的词汇量三个新词。

拿在拉丁美洲的基类，特别拉丁词汇。

Isn't there a verb form of "beautiful"?

是不是有美丽的动词形式？是。由于事实上存在。美化..means，使美丽的。

Yes. As a matter of fact there is.

'Beautify', means "to make beautiful".

You now have four new words. Think of other words, 'beautician'. A beautician is a person who works in making people more beautiful.

你现在有四个新的单词。想想其他的单词，比如美容师。美容师是在让人们变得更加美丽的人。

Uh, she does facials and manicures and pedicures and wax and whatever else these beauticians do.

她会做面部，手部护理和修脚，打蜡脱毛和其他类似的事情。

Anyways, try to find other forms, learn many words instead of just one word, okay.

不管怎么说，试图找到其他形式，学习很多的话，而不是仅仅一个字，好。现在，有些人喜欢研究根，前缀和后缀。

Now, some people like to study roots and suffixes and prefixes.

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this recommendation, but first let me explain what a root is.

就个人而言，我不是这个推荐这个方式.B但请先让我先解释一下词根是什么。

For example, you have the root "-ject"

例如，词根“-ject”

So you learn: inject, eject, object, subject; all the different words that come from the root, so many people only study the word, or the root, "-ject".

所以你学习：inject, eject, object, subject..所有的词都来源于-ject。 所以很多人只学习的单词或词根“-ject”。

并说，这将有助于他们了解所有的单词，如果你有耐心的话，词根是一个好的学习方式，但我认为谁是学习英语的大多数人不喜欢学习词根

and think that that will help them understand all the words with this root. It's a good idea if you have the patience, I think most people who are studying English don't like to study roots

because it's like studying another language. If it works for you do it; if it doesn't, don't.

因为它像学习另一种语言。所以如果他对你来说有效果，那就继续；如果没有效果，那就别学。

Okay, and now another thing you can do: Listen, listen to any spoken English that you can.

好吧...现在你可以做的另一件事.：练习听力。听你能听到的任何英语口语。

I think some of you may have heard of ted.com. It's a good website, people give talks and lectures about different topics. Listen, listen carefully.

我觉得有些人可能听说过Ted这个网站的，这是一个很好的网站，人们就不同主题进行演讲。仔细听。

Anytime you hear a word that you don't recognize, write it down. If you don't know the spelling, no problem.

任何时候当你听到你不认识的单词，把它写下来，如果你不知道的拼写，没问题。

Write it phonetically.

按读音进行拼写，那么，如果你有机会看到剧本，就是记录下一切讲了话的文件，找到你不确定的那个单词检查一下是否正确。

Write the word just like it sounds, then if you have access to a transcript,

means all the words that were spoken, written down, check the transcript and find your word.

If you cant, if you don't have a transcript, go to a dictionary. Now some of you have asked me to recommend a dictionary.

如果你不能，如果你没有剧本，去查字典。现在，有些人让我推荐字典。

很简单，实体的也有网上的也有，Merriam-Webster" (m-w.com):美式英语

Very simple, they're online, you can get the paper one or the online one, "Merriam-Webster" (m-w.com): American English

oxforddictionaries.com: British English, okay.

Oxforddictionaries.com“：英式英语

Now, I know I've seen a lot of students use, like, their electronic dictionaries. They go from like English to Korean, English to Japanese, English to Spanish

现在.我知道很多人使用电子词典时，他们喜欢英语翻译韩语，英语翻译日语，英语翻译成西班牙语

Don't do that anymore, okay? English to English. This way you're learning more words as you're learning one word.

不要再这样了好吗？使用英英字典.这样你在学习的一个词的时候可以学到更多。

"I don't know this word"; I look at the definition, in the definition I might be, I might be learning other words, okay?

我不认识这个词，我去查它的释义，在释义里我可能学到其他单词..okay？

You will maximize how many words you learn by using an English to English dictionary.

你将最大限度地学习英语通过使用一个将英语词典。

Now, again about those electronic dictionaries.

有时，当人们试图写，他们会写在他们的母语一个句子，然后按“翻译”，并得到一个英语句子

Sometimes, like especially when people are trying to write, they will write a sentence in their native language,

and then press "translate" on this dictionary, and get a sentence in English.

Now, I've seen sentences that I knew came from the electronic dictionary

目前为止，我知道的来自于电子词典句子，都没有任何意义，

because they made no sense, okay. They were terrible, terrible sentences. Don't do that. Okay?

The people who made these dictionaries might not know English very well. Keep that in mind, okay?

做这些字典的人可能英语不好。记住这一点...好吗？

So these are some ideas, now I'm going to tell you what I think are the best ideas to increase your vocabulary.

因此现在我要告诉你我的想法是提高你的词汇量最好的方法。

Okay, so now we're going to look on a couple of other ways you can increase your vocabulary.

好吧..所以现在我们要看看来增加你的词汇量的其他方法。

These are very effective, but it takes a lot of patience, a lot of perseverance.

这些都是非常有效，但它需要很大的耐心，很多的毅力..

You have to try hard, you have to keep doing it, because vocabulary; not so easy, right?

你必须努力..你要继续做下去，因为它是词汇..没那么容易..对不对？

Okay, so first we're going to start with cards. You get yourself a stack of cards, maybe this big.

好吧..所以首先我们要与卡片开始，让自己的卡别太大，因为你要放在你的口袋里，并且你无论你走到哪里都要带着他们。

Not too big because you're going to want to carry them in your pocket, take them with you everywhere you go, okay?

On one side of the cards, you're going to write words; four maybe five words that are new words for you.

卡的一面可能是四到五个字新词

You're going to write sentences on the back, on the other side of the card, you're going to use these words in sentences so you have the clearer meaning.

卡片的另一面，写一些能让你明白这些词是什么意思的句子

Or you can write the meaning of the word, the dictionary meaning. Both okay.

或者你也可以写英英词典里的解释，二者都可以

Now, you're going to split your cards into three piles, okay?

现在，你要你的牌分成三堆，你将有你所知道的单词当在一起

You're going to have the pile of cards of words that you know, words you're comfortable with.

Eventually, you will have a pile like this, words that you're very comfortable with, you know them very well, you don't need to look at these cards very often, okay?

最终，你将有一堆像这样的卡，你非常了解他们，你并不需要看这些卡

现在..在我继续下去之前，你或许要问：哪里去找这些词？可以从托福网站或SAT网站或雅思网站或SAT的书，书的后面你就会有你需要学习单词列表

Now, before I continue, where do you get these words?

Get them from a TOEFL site, or an IELTS site, or an SAT site,

or an SAT book, for example, they have lists of words that you need to learn.

Put all these words on cards, split them up like this. You know these words very well, you don't need to look at.

将所有卡像这样分类。你知道很熟悉的单词不需要看

These words you're almost sure, or at least you recognize these words, you've seen them before,

那些你几乎肯定或者至少你认识的单词

you've heard them before. You can guess what they mean, maybe in context. So you're not sure, put them in this pile.

你以前听说过他们，你能猜出他们的意思可能是你不能确定......把它们放在这堆

This pile, you will look at all the time. And then in the last pile, you put words that you really don't know, okay?

这一堆卡片你要一直看。然后最后一堆卡片是你完全不认识的单词。

This is the pile you will look at the most.

You will study these words. As they become more familiar, you move them to this pile. This pile you study also very regularly.

然后你开始学习这些单词。当你开始熟悉他们的时候，把他们放到”熟悉“的那一堆里面

You take the-

你拿着

This pile is the one you put in your pocket and take with you when you go outside. On the bus you can look at your words;

long line at the bank, pull out your cards and look at the words, okay?

这堆是你放在口袋里的，出门在公共汽车上的时候，你可以看看你的单词

排队等待的时候，你拿出你的卡片继续看

When this word becomes very comfortable for you, when you know what this word means, you move it over to this pile and leave it at home, okay?

Don't Know

当你发现这些卡片已经很熟悉的时候，把它们放在”熟悉“那一堆里面然后留在家里。

Almost Sure

Know

Study, move; Study, move

Put aside; Once in a while look at them just to make sure you remember,

because if you never look at these again, you will forget them, okay? So it's all the time, continual, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice.

因为如果你一直不看他们，你迟早会忘。所以要一直练习。

Vocabulary is a lot of memorization, that's the way it is.

增加词汇量就是一个不断强化记忆的过程

Now, here's another thing you can do, okay, this is the last one I'll show you today.

现在还有另一件事情你可以做。这是今天我要讲的最后一点。

What you do is you make yourself groups of words, okay?

You take-

你需要做的就是给这些单词分组

You can do it many ways, you can make yourself a little, like uh, like a little brain storm.

For example, if we're looking at roots,

you write the root in here, "-ject", and then you write 'reject', 'inject', 'eject', 'subject, etc., or in a list, however way works for you.

你写下词根”-ject“，然后写下'reject', 'inject', 'eject', 'subject, 等等，怎样都行只要对你来说有效

So, three ways that I will recommend to group words

这就是我推荐的三种方式

Again, if you like the roots, group them like that: 'eject', 'reject', 'object', 'subject', 'inject'.

Now, the reason you're going to make groups is because maybe you don't remember 'object' or 'object'

再说一遍，如果你喜欢用词跟记单词，像这样分组：: 'eject', 'reject', 'object', 'subject', 'inject'

(remember, noun or verb), but you remember "-ject",

you remember this group. You sort of remember what "-ject" means so you can apply it to 'object'.

你记得这个组，记得这个”-ject“

"-ject" is like push, in most contexts, "object" is push away; refuse, okay?

”-ject“ 有点像是推开的意思。object 的意思是反对

所以，如果你不记得的话，希望你会记得这组词的意思，来提醒你这个词什么意思

So if you don't remember the word, hopefully you will remember the idea of the group, and then that will remind you what the word means, okay?

Another group you can use is similar meanings, so, synonyms; words that have similar meanings or a similar function, okay?

您可以使用另一组是相似的意思，同义词，词意义相同或相近功能..okay？

So, for example. I'm going to look at this function:

因此，例如我要去看看这个功能，提高，延伸，拓展，accelarate，加大，加强...所有这些，在他们的意思，有某种联系，以增加

'Increase', 'extend', 'expand', 'accelerate', 'intensify', 'reinforce'

All of these have some sort, in their meaning, have some sort of connection to 'increase'.

'Extend': make longer; increase length or time, duration

延伸：让不再增加长度或持续时间，扩大：增加尺寸，加快：加快速度，加大：加大力度，强化：增加力量

'Expand': increase the size or scope

'Accelerate': increase the speed

'Intensify': increase intensity

'Reinforce': increase strength

所以可能你会看到这个词，同时加强阅读的东西..you're不完全知道这意味着什么，但你还记得那是在组

So you-

Maybe you see the word reinforce,

you're reading something, you see the word reinforce,

you're not exactly sure what it means but you remember the group it was in.

The group was the increase group, so reinforce means increase,

该集团是增加组，以便加强手段增加，再加上你看到它在句子的上下文中，它会帮助你理解它的意思强度增加，有时也可能是增加像士兵数数，这意味着加强的位置

plus the context of the sentence you saw it in, will help you understand it means increase in strength

or in-, sometimes it could be increase in number, like number of soldiers, reinforce the position

最后一组是例如主题，让我们说今天的主题是技术好吗？所以你写一个有技术做的话：过时的，国家的最先进的，更新，降级，新锐

The last group is theme,

for example, let's say for today the theme is technology, okay?

So, you write words that have to do with technology: 'obsolete', 'state-of-the-art', 'update', 'downgrade', 'cutting-edge'

All these words, we can talk about, like, computer softwares or computers.

所有这些words..we可以谈论电脑软件或电脑，过时的：老了，没有用了，没有人使用它了

'Obsolete': old; not useful anymore; nobody uses this anymore

Uh, Windows XP, maybe not completely obsolete but almost obsolete. Hardly anybody uses it anymore.

Windows XP中也许不是完全过时，但几乎过时的，几乎没有人使用它了。国家的最先进的手段最新，最前沿的最现代，最先进的，你可以得到

'State-of-the-art' means the newest,

'Cutting-edge': the newest; the most modern; the most advanced you can get

更新：使更新，降级：用更少的，比如我有Windows 8的，我不喜欢它，我想降级到Windows 7，但我不能做到这一点

'Update': to make newer,

'Downgrade': to make less, for example, I have Windows 8; I don't like it. I want to downgrade to Windows 7, but can't do it, Windows 8 won't let me.

Windows 8将不会让我，但无论如何，你有你有一个函数一个主题，你有根。学习块，如果你不记得一个字，你会记住组，它会帮助你了解你看行不行的话？

But anyway, so you have a theme, you have a function, you have the root.

Learn in chunks, if you don't remember one word, you'll remember the group; it will help you understand the word you're looking at, okay?

Go to engVid.com; I'll give you a quiz, give you some more practice with these ideas, and subscribe to my YouTube channel, and come again, we will do this again. Thanks.

去engVid.com，我给你一个测验，我会给你更多的实践这些想法和订阅我的YouTube频道和再来，我们将做到这一点再次..thanks。