增加英语词汇量的方法之一：Vocabulary and Movement

So many students waste time trying to memorize English vocabulary.  They study long lists of vocabulary.  They repeat the lists many times, trying to memorize the English words and their translated meanings.

很多学生浪费时间去记忆英语词汇。他们研究长长的词汇表，重复多次，试图记住这些英语单词和（中文）意思。

 

Research shows that 80% of vocabulary learned in this way is forgotten in less than a year.  That’s a lot of wasted time and effort.

研究表明，用这种方法记忆的英语词汇的百分之八十将会在一年内忘记。这是浪费时间和功夫。

 

There’s another problem with this vocabulary learning method– it’s boring and therefore it kills long term motivation.  Students must be very careful– killing your motivation is the worst thing you can do.  Learning English is a marathon, it’s a long run.   It requires high levels of motivation that are sustained for many years.

这种记忆英语词汇的方法的另一个问题是--- 太无聊因此将磨灭学习的积极性。学生们必须注意--- 磨灭你们学英语的积极性是你们所做的最蠢的事情。英语学习是一场马拉松，是长跑。这就要求保持多年高度的学习积极性。

 

Using boring vocabulary learning methods, therefore, is doubly bad:  it is inefficient and it weakens motivation.

因此，利用无聊的词汇表来记忆单词的方法有两个缺点：既没有效率又减弱了积极性。

 

There is a better way– as participants in my Seminar .  It is possible to learn new vocabulary in a way that is far more powerful and is a lot of fun.  When you learn in this way, you will remember 80% one year later!  That’s powerful.

有一种较好的方法--- 参加我的讲座，你将学会很多新词汇，更加有效和有趣。如果你参加我的讲座，一年后你将记住百分之八十的词汇！非常有效。

 

The key to deep, powerful, long term vocabulary learning is movement.  When we combine strong physical movements with understandable new vocabulary, we create deep connections in our brains and bodies.  These connections are long term.  They last!

深入，有效和长期的学习词汇的关键是运动。我们将身体的强烈运动与理解新词汇结合在一起，我们在你的大脑和你的身体之间建立了直接的联系。这种联系是长期的，它们是持续的。

 

In the seminar, I taught a number of new words using strong actions.  The students shouted the new words with me, while simultaneously using the strong actions I showed them.  By the end of the lesson, they knew those words well.

 

在我的讲座中，我将用强有力的动作教很多新词汇。学生们和我一起喊这些新词汇，同时我要表演动作。到课程结束时，他们很好的记住了这些词汇。

 

But that’s not all.  I will repeated those new words again– this time in a Mini-Story.  Each time I used one of the new words in the story, I used the same physical movement we had been practicing.   Through the Mini-Story, the students got even more repetition of the vocabulary, with emotion and strong movements.

但是这不是全部，我还要重复这些新词汇，这次是讲一个微小故事。每次，我在故事里用新词汇之一。我还做和之前练习的同样的身体运动。通过这些微小故事，学生们一边带有情感的运动，一边重复这些词汇。

 

Finally, I gave the students homework:  download the audio of the same Mini-Story lesson, and listen to that audio every day for one week.

最后，我给学生布置作业：下载这些微小故事音频，然后每天听，要听一周。

 

If the students do this, they will learn these new vocabulary words very deeply, and will remember them forever.  

如果学生做这些，他们将非常深入地学会这些新词汇，而且将永远记住他们。