整天就知道背單詞，你們會背嗎？

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寫在前面的話：

關於如何背單詞這種「老生常談」的話題，會讓人覺得這對於我來說過於「小兒科」，然而連英語學習最最基本的單詞學習都無法掌握，還談什麼在學習英語之路上走得更遠？所以我寫了這篇文章，希望大家可以不要在錯誤的道路上一條道走到黑，快來看看正確的方法吧，趁還不晚！

如果你已經知道了一些片語，但你感覺自己被大量的新單詞淹沒了，並且無法再記住更多單詞…不要害怕！讓我告訴你一個學習單詞的小秘密吧！死記硬背的記憶是必要的，但它應該用於20%的英語學習，而大多數學生將這種方法100%用於英語學習、短語、甚至語法」clause」。這是一種非常愚蠢和不科學的學習方法！

所以，閑話少說，我來推薦你們使用5個正確學習新單詞的步驟：

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

把單詞和新概念(語法、內容等)轉換成你已經理解的短語

Well, 最領先的傢具公司之一，索菲亞擁有特別贊的衣櫃可以讓大家把衣服很整齊的放進去，讓房間更整潔並且不會到處有衣服亂七八糟地扔在地上(讀到這裡你肯定也反應過來了，哈哈我就是那麼光明正大地把索菲亞大大植入廣告放進來啦)。但是，你要知道你的大腦並不像一個衣櫃和裡面的衣服一樣，其實它更像一個蜘蛛網有十億百億的神經細胞交織在一起，所以像衣服一樣把單詞「存放」（即死記硬背)根本不合理。難道不應該像上帝創造大腦一樣，把不同的新詞和新語法連接到一塊兒，而不像存放衣服到柜子里一樣。我意思是，還是讓索菲亞專家們設計衣櫃，咱們還是老老實實把英語給搞好！

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

把你剛剛組合好的短語和你已經理解的短語聯繫起來

就如我以上所說，死記硬背只適用於20%的英語學習時間來給記憶打好基礎，但如果希望在腦海里保留這些單詞/句子/語法點，那當然完全不夠，除非你學習的目的就是用到考試上然後第二天立馬全部忘掉。就像我第一步驟提到的，將新的單詞和句子和之前學過的連聯繫一起至關重要。

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

創建圖表以便加強新學到的句子和概念的記憶保留

創建圖表來顯示出不同概念之間的關係而且這是展示出不同連接點關係最佳的表達方式。當你有各種各樣的句子、概念等的連接，即使你忘記了其中一個句子，你也可以通過別的連接關係上。所以創建圖表來展示不同的表達方式是很重要的。

圖表有助於鞏固剛剛學到的短語和概念，因為它能列出和重組大量的信息，將所有內容都放在一起並理解它們是如何連接到一起，也就擴充了第二步驟提到的「連接不同單詞」的理念了。打個比方，如果我們按照第二步驟給的建議，我們將「Haughty(傲慢)」和「Pride(驕傲)」聯繫在一起（假設它們是一個短語的一部分），然後接下來我們一旦把整個圖表畫出來，我們會意識到這兩個詞都可以追溯到「Confidence(信心)」這個很基本的英語單詞。當然，這個技巧也適用於英語語法規則中。

通過圖表，所有更複雜的短語，辭彙，甚至語法規則，我們都可以追溯到更容易的詞根形式。

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

用你的感官作為鞏固它們的最後一部分

如 步驟3所述，圖表是一種非常直觀的學習方式，也屬於思維導圖，而思維導圖可以直接定義為將任何人想的點子展示出類似於一個地圖的形式，讓這些單詞以千絲萬縷的聯繫浮現出來。

另一種學習方式是聽覺學習，它指的是使用聲音以及任何與聽覺有關的學習工具。我們可以將圖錶轉化為可聽的連接信息，這種應用是一個非常明智的學習方法，因為它可以通過聲音不斷地在大腦重複新學到的短語、單詞甚至語法規則，他們在你的腦海里一遍又一遍循環播放，讓你經過這種「潛意識洗腦」而記住單詞。

當然了，聽覺學習並不適合每個人，所以可能是需要運用知覺式或視覺學習以滿足個人不同的學習需求。

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

確認你的理解和辭彙保留:基於社區的同伴學習和教導他人

大多數學習環境都是中型到大型的課堂，撇開鼓勵互動，坦率地說，中大型課堂只是為了降低每個人頭的成本。如果你讀過我以前的文章，我堅決反對1對1學習。

當有更多人在一起學習，就如「社會化的同伴學習」，並試圖解釋給彼此新的單詞、短語和語法規則以及他們的連接，絕對比一個大腦（自己）更有效，因為當你有更多人一起的時候，集思廣益，新的想法和連接是更快的。社會化的同伴學習意思就是在團隊之間互相合作，試圖集思廣益，Brainstorm(頭腦風暴)新的概念出來。這是非常重要的，因為可以將所有學過的短語與新的連接到一起，一直重複他們和不斷想出新的圖表和其他用途。即使英語水平不相等也並不重要，因為在創建新連接時，它是關於數量的，畢竟你自己的理解力足以過濾任何不正確的連接，所以不要擔心創建新的連接。

如果獨自一人學習，哪怕有一個導師幫助你，你會使用所有這些新的單詞、短語和語法規則連接慢得多，這意味著你對單詞的理解將以更慢的速度進行。

最後，根據「學習金字塔」，簡單地向其他人講授信息證明了對學習的最終掌握的材料的理解，我將在本系列文章的下一部分進一步闡述學習金字塔究竟如何使用，因此請繼續關注!

以下為Andy老師英文原稿

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的簡介：

- Multicultural and multilingual: Grew up and lived in a number of countries, American-born Chinese - （Third Culture Kid） 多文化和多語言: 在多個國家成長和居住；美籍華人 - 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 為企業培訓和招聘人士提供領先評估體系和遊戲化的項目式學習的職場教學法的領袖

- Decade of experience in education and training, and expert in China 十年以上的學生教育和企業培訓的經驗: 並被很多本土和國外人士稱為「通」

- Regular community event organizer with expertise in workplace gamification for employees 定期社區活動的組織者: 遊戲化員工體系的主題

- UC Berkeley Alumni Club Ex-Leader and Recruitment Ambassador 畢業於世界名校加州伯克利大學並擔任校友俱樂部前任負責人和前任招生大使

- Third-party Interviewer for College Admissions 美國第三方面試官 (很多大學現在需要學生在提交申請書與第三方機構進行面試)

- Helped build a number of college admissions counseling departments 負責搭建多個海外升學指導中心

- 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相比其他所謂的「教育專家」，從小上過十幾所學校，親自體驗過AP、IB、英國、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

在這一兩年間，建立了第一個雙語創新創業學習的活動平台: CYBF 創習國際交流中心