July 22, 2018　=========

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This week’s useful phrase is “I’m trying to memorize these new words.” What do you think about memorizing things in order to learn English? As an English teacher, I think it’s important to memorize SOME things, but not everything. Memorizing basic grammar rules and vocabulary can help you, of course, but memorizing – also known as rote learning – everything is not that helpful.

Instead, I really think the best way to learn English is to think about what it is that you want say. There is no point at all in memorizing a list of words that you will never use. However, if you have an idea of what you’d like to talk about – your hobby, your city, your family, your job and so on – then you can memorize those words if you want. Think about what you want to say, make up some example sentences and memorize those. Once you start speaking English, you’ll find that if you relax, many of the words you have memorized will naturally come to mind.

So, what is it that you want to talk about in English?

Bye,

Chris