2 years ago, year 2017 I had a chance to talk with a parent of one of my students and told me how engaging my class was. He is a Japanese teacher and an advanced English learner. Aside from teaching, his job was to send students to New Zealand to study English. During our 30 minute conversation I told him how privileged I was to be able to talk with someone who has been in the language industry for such a long time. We had a real good conversation sharing our experiences in teaching the English language. As we went further to our topic, we had an opportunity to discuss the wrong habits an English learner has that he himself experienced and thankfully overcame it.
One of the habits is by relying too much in Translation dictionary. Oops of course, Translation dictionary is good especially for beginners but as we move forward to our journey in learning the English language we need to be able to develop new habits that will help us level up. One of our goals as an English learner is to reach the road of independence and fluency in English language that's why I’m here encouraging you to use English dictionary.
How to use English dictionary? Sometimes seeing a group of words or a paragraph and not understanding it can be overwhelming. Don’t worry, you are not the only person experiencing it. Let me show you how to use English Dictionary.
Let’s say I checked the word OBNOXIOUS and upon checking it, the word means
-the feeling of one that is displeased
I know not all of us will not be able to understand how the word OBNOXIOUS was defined and by that the next thing you will do is check the term that you don't understand in the sentence.
Obnoxious : the feeling of one that is displeased (find the meaning of the word displeased, incase you still don't get it. )
Displeased : Discomfort; unhappiness. The definition of Displeased shows that the word Obnoxious means not pleasing or unpleasant.
That's how we use English dictionary sometimes we also need to look for the meaning of the term that was used to get the exact definition of the word we are looking for so Be patient with yourself as the saying goes “Every expert was once a beginner". You can do it.
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