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for learning english purpose, any dictionary will do more harm than help. 0 n6 p- Y" R1 H" U! q
. J4 U3 }- O; A; \1 sto learn english, the very first thing is to forget chinese ( at least try to or pretent to), and using any dictionary will defeat that effort, even the E-E one, becasue when you read E-E dictionary, you are still translating the explaination back to chinese and try to understand it. the E-E is only useful when your english is good enough that you can understnad english directly, but in that case, we are not learning english, we are just using it.8 r3 S5 e0 ?' m& t2 Y' i
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P' s% X4 ] x5 D$ X6 C0 Bthe best way is when you encounter a new word, just try to guess the meaning by the context it is in. you may guess it right or wrong, but doesn't matter, the next time you encountered the same word, it will be in different context, then you will have a better idea what that word is meant. A few more times later, you will have a very good idea what that word means and on top of that, you also know all the different context that word can be used in.
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some may argue that the next time I encounter the same word, I already forgot the first instance at all, if that's the case, then that is a very good indicator that particular word is rarly used and you shouldn't pay too much attention to that world as well.
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% v# A( W, d6 q: [if you apply this practise, very soon you will find you are actually thinking in english rather than translate them back to chinese, and you will also find youself in a situation that you can hardly explain certain word in chinese, because you learning it in english context. weather that is a good thing or not is a totally different subject, but for learning english, I think that is the ultimate goal everyone is trying so hard to reach. what they don't know is their "ultimate tool-- the dictionary of any kind" is killing their effort.. O) e* u+ [3 g1 G% L7 v/ h
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I have been in canada for 6 years and I never used dictionary once, and I am now very comfortable with thinking in english. :)
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enjoy
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