01/05/2019
How would you describe the importance of vocabulary in the learning of the English language?
Your question reflects the most widespread misconception that to speak fluent English you should learn a vocabulary of many thousands of words. It is not true! The number of words in your passive vocabulary remembered as translations into the native language has no direct correlation with your ability to speak fluently. The ability to speak fluently depends on your ability to think in English. If you continue thinking in your native language and know even 4000 thousand words as translations into your native language, you wouldn’t be able to communicate freely in English. Here is the proof. Every year nearly ten million Chinese students are passing the Gaokao, China's university entrance exam, demonstrating the knowledge of 4000 English words; however, 99% of these students can’t communicate in English. Students remember English words as translations so their passive vocabulary could be used for reading published materials in English but could not be used for communicating in English. When students are reading they have enough time to translate English words into their native language but in speaking there is no time for translating and creating sentences with the speed required by the natural speech.
So, increasing your passive vocabulary (as translations) is a wrong objective and leads nowhere. Run away from teachers or schools that promise you that you will remember thousands of words fast; they could not be used for natural speech since the latter is a subconscious process and there is no time for translation in your head before you can produce a sentence or understand the spoken language.
The importance of vocabulary in learning English depends on whether it is active or passive vocabulary. Conventional methods of learning English don’t teach how to stop thinking in the native language and that is why they have a very high failure rate. However, one unconventional method, called Active Learning of English skills will turn off your innate habit of thinking in your native language and train the ability to think in English from the very first lesson. The patented method of Active Learning of English skills achieves this goal by introducing simultaneous repetition that was never used before in learning languages.
Active Learning is defined as the activity in which all skills – reading, listening and speaking – are learned simultaneously; it is in sharp contrast with learning a foreign language as information to be remembered. For the sake of brevity, we would call concurrent triple activity of reading, listening and speaking as simultaneous repetition. This tool allows adult learners to automatically form the direct wiring between English words and the images or symbols, they describe. Learners form active vocabulary; they acquire intuitive grammar and ability to speak fluently. Learners start thinking in English from the first lesson. With active vocabulary, you may start communicating in English knowing only 2000 words or even less. You need to enhance active vocabulary to 4000 words to be able to speak English fluently in the academic environment.
The details of Active Learning of English skills and links for downloading the Android application are given on the website
Adults speak fluent English in less than a year using patented method of Active Learning of English skills.
