Yu Minhong: I don't memorize words every day now. After I started not teaching in 2000, my vocabulary was on a downward trend, reaching a high of about 30,000 to 40,000, and now I estimate that it's only 15,000 to 20,000, and I can remember the common words that I read on top of the daily newspapers and magazines and I can remember the words of the books that I have taught, and I can remember that the vocabulary has no relationship with the level of English, and it's not relevant to any person who wants to learn English. For anyone who wants to learn English, memorizing enough words is enough. Now I try to immerse myself in the English world for half an hour a day, whether it's movies, magazines, or books, so that I can maintain my English level, because after all, New Oriental is an English language school, and people look down on me for having too low an English level.
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