My English was so bad in college that I wondered how I got into college, and I still didn't pass the CET-4 exam after four years of college. After graduating from university and joining the workforce, I realized that English was so important. The colleagues around me have excellent English, they have either passed level 4 or 6 or passed TOEFL IELTS, which once made me feel very inferior, how can I not even pass level 4!
I don't speak English well, which really has a negative impact on my work. My colleagues know English and are the first to get first-hand information on foreign websites, so it's no wonder that they always know more about their work than I do. Privately, they often discuss where they went abroad on their last business trip. In the face of my colleagues, I have nothing but envy. I regret it very much, why didn't I learn English well in school at that time? And at that time, I often complained at school about the use of learning this broken English. Now it seems that I am really useless.
But it's useless to complain excessively, now that I understand the importance of English, I should still have time to make amends, I believe that I am not stupid or stupid, and I will be able to learn English well. On the recommendation of a colleague, I decided to start with New Concept English, which is said to be a very classic English textbook that covers words, grammar, sentence patterns, listening, reading, writing, and more.
I read a short piece of a new concept every day along with the recording until I became very proficient at it. The teacher said that persisting in learning English is a very boring thing, and at the beginning, I often get frustrated and want to give up because I can't read a sentence smoothly after reading it several times. But as soon as I remembered that I was in front of my colleagues, because of my low self-esteem in English, I gritted my teeth and insisted. Later, in order to allow myself to persevere and learn English every day, I would record my reading texts into videos and send them to my circle of friends, urging myself to check in every day.
At first, I was quite shy, embarrassed to post on Moments, and I posted it for the first time, but after getting the likes and support of my friends, this shyness gradually disappeared, and was replaced by more and more confidence day by day, because I felt that I was improving day by day.
In half a year, I have finished learning the first volume of New Concept English, to be honest, I personally feel that there is still a lot of gain, now I can say some simple sentences casually, master the basic grammar and sentence patterns, in comparison, my colleagues and I are fluent in oral expression is still very different, but I will continue to work hard, so next I am ready to start learning New Concept English Volume 2. This is the story of how I taught myself a new concept of English.
Today we are going to continue to learn root affixes to memorize English words, and today we are going to learn the root word pos. The root pos means placement, and with this root in hand, we can use it to help us understand and memorize English words.
The word pose, this word is composed of two parts, the root pos means to put, and the suffix e means to move, so the word means to pose.
The word compose, this word is composed of three parts, the prefix com means together, the root pos means put, the suffix e means verb, and the three parts are combined to mean put together to form an object, so the word means composition.
The word expose, the word is composed of three parts, the prefix ex means outside, the root pos means to place, the suffix e means to move, and the three parts are combined to mean put outside, so the word means exposed.
Today we learned about the root pos means placement, and the words that are formed by the root pos, have you memorized all these words? Remembering words with root affixes makes it easier for us to remember English words. Of course, in order to make it more convenient for everyone to learn, the machine farmer has also sorted out more examples of root affixes to remember words efficiently.