{"id":52169,"date":"2016-12-20T01:21:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T01:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/aee\/aee-655-smartest-fastest-way-understand-80-vocabulary-words-english\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:52:00","slug":"aee-655-smartest-fastest-way-understand-80-vocabulary-words-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/aee-655-smartest-fastest-way-understand-80-vocabulary-words-english\/","title":{"rendered":"AEE 655: The Smartest and Fastest Way to Understand 80% of All Vocabulary Words in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know how to find connections between words in English so that you can guess meanings faster in quick conversations?<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have this skill then you should build it.<\/p>\n

Being able to guess meanings of words will help you understand and CONNECT when you are in a group of native speakers.<\/p>\n

Hi Lindsay and Michelle,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My Name is Neorvis but you can call me just Neo. I\u2019m from Cuba and I live in New Jersey since 2013. I love your podcast, you both are amazing, thank you for being there for us. I studied France during 4 years in a France Alliance and I also studied Italian for 2 years during my College. To read and write in those languages is easy for me, specially because they\u2019re very close to my native language. Anyway if you guys learn the rules for reading and writing you guys are ok because those rules never change. Lindsay you have to know a little bit about it because you studied Spanish, don\u2019t you?. In English this is crazy :)), I\u2019m gonna give you guys an example:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Look the sound \u201cHAVE\u201d in these two sentences:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I have an Apple Watch.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It is stupid of him to behave like that.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There are  thousands more examples like this and when I ask to my friends about it, they always say, there are not rules, you have to memorize :(.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Could you guys talk about that?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Thank you for your question! It\u2019s a good question.<\/p>\n

First of all, you are trying to find connections between words and to get clues into meaning. <\/span><\/p>\n

We think that\u2019s great<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case it won\u2019t work.<\/span><\/p>\n

The word \u201cbehave\u201d does not really have the word \u201chave\u2019 in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not using the root.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no connection except for the spelling.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Should you look for connections between words?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of finding connections between words is great but do it in a smart way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Use the 80\/20 principle.<\/span><\/p>\n

80% of your results come from 20% of the things that you could focus on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s choose the right 20%<\/span><\/p>\n