Easier words for memorization
Another way you can be more efficient as you begin learning vocabulary, is to focus on the words
which are easier to remember. Of course, the very easiest of these are the words which are the same
in English as in your own native language (see chapter 10). Then for the rest of English vocabulary, if
you follow the methods in this book, you will be using very effective visual memorization
techniques, flash cards and spaced repetition (see chapters 11 to 13). Even if you choose not to use
these techniques, you will find it easier to initially memorize words that are more visual in nature.
The focus of this book is to give you a better overall strategy for learning English, rather than giving
you the actual components of the English language itself. You can get them from anywhere, primarily
real conversation and the internet.
But because it fits our focus on efficiency so well, here are a list of about 600 words in English – all
within the 2,000 most common words – which all lend themselves very easily to visualization
techniques. You could set yourself a daily task of memorizing 20 a day over the next two months, and
quickly have a very strong and broad foundation of words to fill up most conversational needs. If 20
words a day sounds like a lot, please read until chapter 13 now. If you combine the visualization
memory techniques, flash cards and spaced repetition, you will find that 20 words is taking it very
easy. There is no reason why you cannot absorb 40 or 60 of these words a day, or even many more.
Especially these 600 words, which are chosen because of their very visual nature, making them easy
to create memorable images for.
Why not set yourself the challenge, it will be fun and could change your entire experience of the
English language, in just a couple of short months. As you read these lists, if other words jump to
your mind, add them in, they are obviously more relevant to you. And as the following chapter will
emphasize, you should always focus on what is most relevant to you personally. Here are around 600
easy-to-visualize commonly used words by category;
Verbs
: beat, bend, break, build, burn, buy, call, carry, catch, clean, close, cook, count, cry, cut, dance,
die, dig, draw, drink, drive, eat, explode, fall, feed, fight, find, fly, follow, go, grow, hang, hear, jump,
kill, kiss, laugh, learn, lie down, lift, listen, lose, love, marry, melt, mi, stir, open, pray, pass by, pay,
play, pull, push, run, see, sell, shake, shoot, sign, sing, sit, sleep, smell, smile, speak, say, stand, stop,
swim, taste, teach, think, throw, touch, turn, wake up, walk, wash, watch, wear, win, work, write.
Adjectives
: alive, bad, beautiful, big, large, blind, cheap, clean, cold, cool, curved, dark, dead, deaf,
deep, dirty, dry, expensive, famous, fast, flat, female, good, happy, hard, healthy, heavy, high, hot,
long, light, light, loose, loud, low, male, mean, narrow, new, nice, nuclear, old, poor, quiet, rich, sad,
shallow, short, sick, slow, small, little, soft, strong, tall, thick, thin, tight, ugly, warm, weak, wet, wide,
young.
People
: adult, man, woman, baby, boy, brother, child, boy, girl, crowd, daughter, family, fan, father,
friend, girl, grandfather, grandmother, human, husband, king, man, mother, neighbour, parent,
mother, father, player, person, president, queen, sister, son, victim, wife, woman.
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