Topic 1: What is the worldview of Tree-Wheel Ci?
World outlook is people's basic view and viewpoint on the world. Tree-wheel Ci also has its own world view:
Words are never recited one by one, but round by round. Only in the process of quickly completing memory can we gradually accumulate feelings and confidence in words. Therefore, annual ring words are only allowed to be reviewed and consolidated after completing 200 words or one round.
Don't spend more than one minute on one word in each round. If you can't remember a word in one minute, you can't remember it in a short time.
If it takes more than 15 seconds to recall the meaning of a word, then the word is not mastered. Because spending 15 seconds remembering a word in an exam is no different from not knowing it, and you will fail because you didn't finish the test paper.
Reciting words must be fast. Only by experiencing rapid progress can we provide enough perseverance for persistence. Therefore, the annual ring words are grouped into 200 words, and I hope everyone can recite at least 200 words every day.
The person who knows you best in the world is yourself, and it is impossible for any intelligent (zi) application to know whether you have really mastered these words. So the word ring is just a tool, and it will never tell you that you have mastered the word.
Learning without motivation is ineffective. APP can correct many tactical problems, but it depends on you to stick to it. Therefore, annual ring words can only be used in exam-oriented English, because only these exams can change your destiny.
For me, the words of tree rings are like a monument, recording my world view and methodology. I don't want it to fade with the passage of time, but I hope it can help my later classmates.
Topic 2: How to memorize words better?
Based on the above points, I would like to give some suggestions and advice to students who are going to recite English words:
Don't try to remember a word completely before you start the next word. You will find that after reciting 10 words, the first word seems to have forgotten its meaning again. I remember reciting TOEFL in high school and giving up when reciting accelerate, because I forgot the contents of the previous page after reciting one page. This experience not only brought my undergraduate study to an abrupt end, but the most terrible thing was that I was full of fear of memorizing words from now on, and I didn't get out of the shadows until I was ready to go to GMAT nine years later.
If you are preparing for an exam, reciting 200 words a day should be a better choice. A word takes 1 minute, about 2 hours (even if you have a poor English foundation, you already know some words, and it won't take long). If you spend a little time, you can actually finish your memory easily before dinner. You can consolidate these 200 words 1-2 rounds after dinner.
Be fully prepared to recite words, aiming at reciting 30 rounds. Which of those high-scoring candidates doesn't recite words 40-50 times? But don't worry, it is estimated that you will spend a short time each round from 10. A few days before preparing for the exam, the time I spent reading words was basically 1 hour, and I could read them all at once.
If you have an exam, don't stop memorizing words until the day before you enter the examination room. If you enter the second half of the review, you can review the words every 3-5 days, but don't think it's over when you recite them. After 2 weeks, some words will become unfamiliar.
In the first few rounds, you can only recite new words, until the number of new words is reduced to 10% of the total, you should change to the whole word memorizing mode and get back the words you remember before but may not be familiar with. Then gradually compress the recitation time of the full-scale model until the exam.
These methods are indispensable. For example, if you don't follow 1, you can't finish the second one. If you can't do the second item, you will find that you have forgotten the words before you finish a round. Similarly, if you can't reach the fourth item, how can you reach the goal of 30 rounds?
These methods are an important whole, and only by interlocking can we achieve the expected results.
Topic 3: Instructions for the use of annual ring words
Finally, let's talk about how to quickly realize the recitation method we just said with the words of tree rings:
First of all, you should pay attention to the progress bar and annual rings on the home page. When the progress reaches 100%, you will get annual rings and you can start the second round of learning.
Be sure to finish the 1 round as soon as possible. Once you finish the round, the rest is easy.
On the word card page, you can choose one-card multi-word mode, which is more efficient.
The progress bar at the top of the word card page refers to the current progress of these 200 words. After completing these 200 words, the word list milestone card will be displayed. On the milestone card, you can choose whether to start a new word list or review and consolidate the previous word list. My suggestion is that if you still have time today, you'd better consolidate the last word list 1-2 times, and don't start a new word list in a hurry.
After completing one round of study, you can choose one of "diatonic mode" and "new word mode" to review from the second round. Full-scale mode means that whether you have mastered these words before or not, this round of undifferentiated learning will be carried out, and every word will be repeated; The new word pattern refers to learning only words you don't know and ignoring what you already know.
My suggestion is that in the first few rounds, we can adopt the new word mode, interspersed with a small number of full-size mode learning, and then we can choose the full-size mode and interspersed with new words learning. When you can basically remember, continue to consolidate through the full-dimensional model to improve your proficiency in words, and it is best to feed back the meaning of words at a glance.
Topic 4: Q&A
Q: What if two words know each other and two words don't?
A: It is recommended to mark the card as unknown. What are the disadvantages of reviewing those two familiar words several times?
Q: Why do you count some words among the new words when I explicitly choose to know them?
A: Because we decided that only the words you know four times in a row are the words you really master, and this is based on my personal experience. I will continue to learn and improve, and I believe that my judgment will be more scientific in the future.
Q: Why are your examples sometimes inconsistent with the Chinese explanation? Every time I read an example, I feel strange.
A: The main reason for this problem is that I choose to extract the original translation from European and American articles. I don't think there is anything wrong with this, because in my opinion, the definition of English words is not a few dry Chinese words, but a vague feeling. There are various corresponding Chinese words translated into Chinese in different contexts, so we really don't have to care whether the example is exactly the same as the definition. The function of example sentences is to help everyone understand how to use this word in English context. To give an inappropriate example: on me, the tiger smells roses. The most popular English translation is "the tiger in my heart smells the rose", but there is nothing about me here, right?
Topic 5: conclusion
Tree-wheel Ci is a product that I hope to realize my self-worth. I don't want to compete with existing application products with tree-ring words, nor do I pursue hundreds of thousands of registered users. I just hope that I can constantly polish the products and make the content of the word book and the interaction of the products into a boutique I am proud of. My salary is not bad, and I don't expect to make money with annual ring words. I hope friends who do similar applications will stop complaining about me on Zhihu. Instead of focusing on suppressing me, let your product manager use his head more.
Finally, due to my limited personal ability, there must be many unsatisfactory places in the annual ring words. I sincerely hope that my classmates can help me improve it so that more people can use better and more practical English learning tools. Thank you.