About "How to Learn English"

【a】Words

1: Overemphasized

*Context*
Studying grammar may be helpful at times but, in Japan, grammar is often overemphasized while students do not have sufficient opportunities to get used to English.

*Definition*
to give something more importance than it deserves or than is suitable


2: Recall

*Context*
If you can do this, you probably will not need to try to recall the definition you found in your dictionary.

*Definition*
Remember Something
---to remember a particular fact, event, or situation from the past


3: Equivalents

*Context*
Memorizing Japanese equivalents for English words does not work well for two reasons.

*Definition*
having the same value, purpose, job etc as a person or thing of a different kind



【c】

In this essay,"Words are like friends" made an impression on me.
Knowing a word likes to know new friends.
I like the phrase:To get to know a word well, you need to "meet" it in many different situations.
I want to "meet" many words in many books.