Timeline for What do native speakers think of word roots?
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 20:24 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy |
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| Aug 1, 2015 at 14:12 | history | edited | Yummy Sushi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
A short conclusion.
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| Aug 1, 2015 at 14:07 | history | edited | Yummy Sushi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
A short conclusion.
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| Aug 1, 2015 at 5:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/627354919075475457 | ||
| Jul 31, 2015 at 1:49 | answer | added | user20792 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 23:59 | answer | added | rogermue | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 28, 2015 at 0:07 | answer | added | Zel | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 20:56 | history | edited | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 20:24 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | I think that learning anything is helped by knowing a bit more than just the bare facts, any "back story" helps memory. And a feeling for roots and how things evolved can be that. But a way to do that would be to pick up some Latin, French, another Germanic language... that's a wildly inefficient way to learn English if you're not already from northwestern Europe or so. | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 20:24 | comment | added | Jason Melançon | The best way to learn words is to read stuff that uses them: Books, magazines, etc. Keep a dictionary handy and use it for every unfamiliar word. You will notice similarities like root word commonalities yourself, which can be a mnemonic if you're curious about etymology. But just studying roots by themselves is context-free, so your long-term memory will be, shall we say, unimpressed. | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 20:14 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 20:12 | history | edited | user230 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 19:43 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 18:37 | comment | added | shoover | I don't have enough to say to write as an answer, but I second the use of Word Power Made Easy and studying roots, prefixes, and suffixes. As a native speaker of AmE, I took four years of Latin in high school many years ago, plus we used WPME as our text in one year's English class. I frequently find myself deciphering Spanish or Italian words and unfamiliar English words via the roots and cognates, although you do need to be careful (embarazada comes to mind as a notable "false friend"). | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 17:20 | history | edited | Yummy Sushi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 17:13 | answer | added | Obie 2.0 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:39 | comment | added | Yummy Sushi | Okay, I will stay here and wait patiently. Thanks for your warm help! (/ouo)/ | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:33 | comment | added | M.A.R. | IMO, this is now good enough to sit here. I've seen questions like this get answered before here. | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:33 | history | edited | M.A.R. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:31 | history | edited | Yummy Sushi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:28 | comment | added | Yummy Sushi | Um... So I'd better move to the IRC and leave a question here? | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:22 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Alternatively, there are chatrooms you can access via English Language Learners Chat. Also, to the close voters: I do not agree with the closure. There has been past questions which remained since they were useful to ELLers. How is this not useful? | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:14 | comment | added | Yummy Sushi | Um... So would you like to tell me where is the correct place that I can talk about this given topic? | |
| Jul 27, 2015 at 16:04 | comment | added | M.A.R. | Some points: 1) Love your main question, but talking about a book is unfortunately off-topic on ELL. You could mention that the guy used it as evidence or whatever though. 2) If this Root memorizing refers to ways of connecting words like advert/revert, then it'd be confusing at best in the long run. However, I wouldn't imagine how one could not connect "pollute" to "pollution" when learning them. That is, word formation is one efficient way to connect words of the same Latin, French etc. root. 3) Welcome to ELL! | |
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| Jul 27, 2015 at 15:58 | history | asked | Yummy Sushi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |