--To commemorate my 500 days with Shanbay


For the past of the 500 days, I have recommended Shanbay to numerous friends. It turns out that some of them just registered it, while some used it for about ten days or twenty days. Only two can continue using Shanbay without even one day’s break. I do not intend to write this article as a bowl of chicken soup for the soul so as to encourage you through my story. Whether you can insist or not, I think, it depends on your character and the way how to do it. This article is about the methods of how to do it in an easier way.

At the very beginning, after you have an account of Shanbay, you may have an ambition for reciting thousands of word and you may think you are full of power since you want to change yourself and are eager to improve your English. You are full of energy so you set your goal to recite 700 words per day and select a word book with thousands of word. You finish it the first day with a sense of fulfillment. You punched card with hard diligence in second day and you feel very tired with 700 words in the third day and finally give up after a few days. As a consequence, the golden rule is to start with a small workload at the very beginning. Only in this way can you enjoy the process of using Shanbay and recite more English words continually.

In order to alleviate your workload, you should set the daily task of 50 words per day through this link http://www.shanbay.com/bdc/setting/ and choose a book of about 200-300 words. You can finish this book within a month and feel a great amount of satisfaction. Satisfaction can help you to keep up. Do not join any reading plan and sentence plan until you finish the first word book.

Research shows that it takes 21 days to develop a habit. At the first few days, you may forget to punch cards for so many reasons, such as being busy, illness and tiredness. The useful tactic is to ask a mature user to remind you at the first month or ask your friends to start to use Shanbay together and monitor each other.

In addition to how to continue punching card in an undemanding way, I would like to share some experience to use Shanbay in a more effective way.

Spelling is particularly important in English word study. Spelling is beneficial for your recognition. If you just recite English by looking at them, you are likely to forget them easily. You can recognize a word by practicing spelling even if you forget how to spell the word.

The appearance of each word is locked for 5 times per word now. It is reasonable according to this article posted in Shanbay http://www.shanbay.com/help/vocabulary_builder/good_enough .

Picking up notes is very helpful. Note is a very creative function of Shanbay. Read each note created by other Shanbay users and write down your own notes for usage, synonyms and mnemonics. Remember, you will forget a word no matter how many times you recite it. Notes facilitate you to memorize words in a faster way. Similarly, reading and sorting out sentence examples are another two powerful tricks.

These tips are for beginners who have just registered Shanbay. I will write another article for the middle-level users at the 600th day of my punching card.