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I want to know how native English speakers spell the words?
When I come up with some 'big words', they are hard to be spelled out.
As a second-language speaker in English, I have a myth that I should obtain the ability to spell the words by letters. For example, 'doctrine' is 'd-o-c-t-r-i-n-e', or 'jeopardize' is 'j-e-o-p-a-r-d-i-z-e'. But I find it so hard to practice and very low-efficient.
So I wonder if native speakers are taught to remember the long words in different way, like 'doctrine' is 'doc-trine' and 'jeopardize' is 'jeo-par'dize'.
Because in China, teachers normally don't teach that way, students are requested to write many time of the words to remember them. But this method won't suit the high-level students, because we want to obtain a larger amount of new words through reading.
Also I want to know how you can remember so many long words since there are so many of them, do you read them in articles or news or movies?
21 de mar. de 2020 6:43
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That's correct, you need to break a word to pronounce it. Also in order to remember it use it frequently - make sentences, read more articles related to it or news, watch videos about it or use the words in conversations with friends who're also learning English.
It's useful to learn phonetics for pronunciation: https://www.yourdictionary.com/phonetics or have a teacher who can make you learn the correct pronunciations.
21 de marzo de 2020
If you break the big words into syllables, you will have an easier time spelling them. Our brains can only handle a few items at once generally. That is why remembering 876,009,654 can be easier than remembering 876009654. Taken as a group of three, there are only three numbers to remember as opposed to the nine digits of the second number.
One thing you can also do is to learn common words and common parts of words. Take note of small words; sometimes they are. the ones to cause you the most problems. "Though" and "Thought" seem like they should be pronounced in the same way, yet they are different. "Borough" and "rough" sound different. However, all of those words have the "ough" in them.
None of those are "big words" but yet can cause problems. If you just concentrate on big words, you will end up making many mistakes on the smaller words.
22 de marzo de 2020
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