字彙學Week1

  Today is the first class of the vocabuly class, and we learn some basic terms of English.
For example, we learn that a word is made up of prefix(字首), suffix(字尾), root(字根), and they can make up every English words.

Explaination of Prefix

 

Explaination of Suffix
 



 

Explaination of Root

Next, we watched a video about English history, which is very briefly. I knew that Shakesphere had created over 1500 words, and some of them we still using today. That's very interesting!!

十分鐘讀懂英文史 The History of English in Ten Minutes Chinese(trad.) Subtitled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrgD8_VtMA

 P.S:English=Saxon's grammer+French

Today's words(suffix and prefix inclueded):
1.depreciate (v.) 貶值
2.-uni:one
3.-itis:inflmmation