{"id":5856,"date":"2026-06-25T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:07:00","slug":"collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/ko\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural\/","title":{"rendered":"Collocations: The Vocabulary Skill That Makes You Sound Natural | \u642d\u914d\u8a5e\u5b78\u7fd2\u6cd5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u672c\u6587\u91cd\u9ede:<\/strong>\u672c\u6587\u70ba\u53f0\u7063\u4e0a\u73ed\u65cf\u8207\u82f1\u6587\u5b78\u7fd2\u8005\u89e3\u6790\u300c\u642d\u914d\u8a5e\u300d(collocations)\u7684\u5b78\u7fd2\u65b9\u6cd5\u3002\u8207\u5176\u6b7b\u80cc\u55ae\u5b57,\u4e0d\u5982\u638c\u63e1\u8a5e\u8a9e\u7684\u81ea\u7136\u7d44\u5408,\u8b93\u4f60\u7684\u5546\u696d\u82f1\u6587\u8207\u591a\u76ca\u53e3\u8aaa\u66f4\u9053\u5730\u3002\u9069\u5408\u6e96\u5099\u591a\u76ca\u3001\u82f1\u6587\u7c21\u5831,\u6216\u60f3\u64fa\u812b\u4e2d\u5f0f\u82f1\u6587\u7684\u5b78\u7fd2\u8005(\u82f1\u6587\u5b78\u7fd2)\u3002<\/p><p>You can know every word in a sentence and still sound wrong. A Taiwanese engineer might write <em>&#8220;I did a big mistake&#8221;<\/em> \ub610\ub294 <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s discuss about the budget,&#8221;<\/em> and every individual word is correct \u2014 yet a native speaker immediately hears that something is off. The problem is almost never grammar or vocabulary size. It is collocation (\u642d\u914d\u8a5e): the invisible convention that decides which words prefer to sit next to each other. In natural English you <em>make<\/em> a mistake, you don&#8217;t <em>do<\/em> one. You <em>discuss<\/em> the budget, you don&#8217;t <em>discuss about<\/em> it.<\/p><p>For Taiwanese professionals (\u53f0\u7063\u4e0a\u73ed\u65cf) preparing for TOEIC (\u591a\u76ca), running meetings in business English (\u5546\u696d\u82f1\u6587), or simply trying to sound less like a textbook, collocations are the single highest-leverage thing you can study. They are also the thing almost no classroom teaches well. This guide explains what a collocation really is, why memorizing vocabulary lists quietly fails you, and a concrete method for building collocation memory that actually shows up when you open your mouth.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2.jpg\" alt=\"a person writing on a notebook with a pen\" class=\"wp-image-5850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-2-600x379.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">a person writing on a notebook with a pen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What a Collocation Actually Is | \u642d\u914d\u8a5e\u5230\u5e95\u662f\u4ec0\u9ebc<\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_v68FYLrXek?feature=oembed\" title=\"Collocations: The Vocabulary Skill That Makes You Sound Natural\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p>A collocation is a pair or group of words that fluent speakers habitually use together. We say <em>heavy rain<\/em>, never <em>strong rain<\/em>. We say <em>fast food<\/em>, never <em>quick food<\/em>. We <em>\uacb0\uc815\uc744 \ub0b4\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/em>, but we <em>do the homework<\/em>. None of this follows a tidy logical rule \u2014 <em>\uac15\ud55c<\/em> \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 <em>heavy<\/em> mean almost the same thing, yet only one fits each noun. Collocations are decided by usage and frequency: by what millions of speakers have simply chosen to say over centuries.<\/p><p>This is why collocation is the line between English that is grammatically correct and English that is natural (\u9053\u5730\u82f1\u6587). A learner who masters collocations sounds fluent even with a modest vocabulary, because the words arrive in the right company. A learner who ignores them can have an enormous vocabulary and still sound stiff, because every sentence is assembled one isolated word at a time.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strong vs. Weak Collocations | \u5f37\u642d\u914d\u8207\u5f31\u642d\u914d<\/h3><p>Not all collocations are equally fixed. Some are <em>\uac15\ud55c<\/em>: <em>make an effort<\/em> allows almost no substitution \u2014 you cannot <em>do an effort<\/em> \ub610\ub294 <em>build an effort<\/em>. Others are <em>weak<\/em>: a <em>quick<\/em> meeting, a <em>short<\/em> meeting, and a <em>brief<\/em> meeting are all acceptable. Knowing which collocations are locked and which are flexible is part of sounding natural, and it is something you absorb through exposure rather than memorize from a rule.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3.jpg\" alt=\"two businessmen having a meeting in the park \" class=\"wp-image-5851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-3-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">two businessmen having a meeting in the park <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Memorizing Word Lists Quietly Fails | \u70ba\u4ec0\u9ebc\u80cc\u55ae\u5b57\u6e05\u55ae\u6703\u5931\u6557<\/h2><p>Most Taiwanese learners study vocabulary as a column of English words with Chinese glosses beside them: <em>decision = \u6c7a\u5b9a, deadline = \u622a\u6b62\u65e5\u671f, concern = \u64d4\u6182<\/em>. This feels productive, and it does build recognition. But it stores each word in isolation \u2014 married to its Chinese translation and divorced from its English partners. When you later need to speak, you reach for <em>decision<\/em>, find no English verb attached to it, and instinctively borrow the logic of Mandarin, producing <em>&#8220;do a decision&#8221;<\/em> instead of <em>\uacb0\uc815\uc744 \ub0b4\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/em>. That is the precise mechanism behind Chinglish (\u4e2d\u5f0f\u82f1\u6587).<\/p><p>Fluent speakers do not build sentences word by word. Research on how the brain stores language suggests we hold thousands of ready-made chunks \u2014 <em>reach an agreement<\/em>, <em>meet a deadline<\/em>, <em>raise a concern<\/em> \u2014 and slot these prefabricated pieces together at speed. This is why natives talk so fast and so smoothly: they are not assembling, they are retrieving. The goal of studying collocations is to build your own library of these chunks so that speaking becomes retrieval, not translation.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-4.jpeg\" alt=\"Blank flashcards on a white background held together by a metal ring, perfect for study or organization.\" class=\"wp-image-5852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-4.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-4-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-4-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-4-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-4-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blank flashcards on a white background held together by a metal ring, perfect for study or organization.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Collocation Types That Matter Most at Work | \u8077\u5834\u6700\u91cd\u8981\u7684\u642d\u914d\u985e\u578b<\/h2><p>You do not need every collocation in English \u2014 you need the ones that appear in your professional life. For most Taiwanese professionals, three patterns carry the bulk of workplace communication, and focusing on them gives the fastest return on study time.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Verb + Noun | \u52d5\u8a5e + \u540d\u8a5e<\/h3><p>This is the highest-value category and the one Mandarin speakers get wrong most often. You <em>\uacb0\uc815\uc744 \ub0b4\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/em>, <em>reach an agreement<\/em>, <em>meet a deadline<\/em>, <em>raise a concern<\/em>, <em>run a meeting<\/em>, \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 <em>take responsibility<\/em>. The noun is usually easy; the verb is where learners stumble, because Mandarin uses a different verb logic. Whenever you learn a workplace noun, immediately ask: <em>which verb goes with this?<\/em><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adjective + Noun | \u5f62\u5bb9\u8a5e + \u540d\u8a5e<\/h3><p>These collocations make your English precise and confident: a <em>tight deadline<\/em>, a <em>key stakeholder<\/em>, a <em>strong candidate<\/em>, a <em>rough estimate<\/em>, <em>valuable feedback<\/em>. Swapping in a near-synonym often breaks them \u2014 a <em>tight<\/em> deadline is natural, but a <em>narrow<\/em> deadline is not, even though both adjectives can mean &#8220;small.&#8221;<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adverb + Adjective and Verb + Adverb | \u526f\u8a5e\u642d\u914d<\/h3><p>These add nuance and polish: <em>fully aware<\/em>, <em>deeply concerned<\/em>, <em>strongly recommend<\/em>, <em>highly likely<\/em>. In emails especially, the right intensifier signals that you command the language \u2014 <em>&#8220;I strongly recommend&#8221;<\/em> lands with far more authority than <em>&#8220;I very recommend,&#8221;<\/em> which is not even grammatical.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5.jpg\" alt=\"Person taking notes with pen and colorful highlighters\" class=\"wp-image-5853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-5-600x358.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Person taking notes with pen and colorful highlighters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Method for Building Collocation Memory | \u5efa\u7acb\u642d\u914d\u8a5e\u8a18\u61b6\u7684\u65b9\u6cd5<\/h2><p>Knowing that collocations matter changes nothing on its own. What builds them into your speech is a small, repeatable loop you run every day: notice, record, reuse. It takes ten minutes and beats any vocabulary app.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notice | \u7559\u610f<\/h3><p>Start reading like a hunter rather than a tourist. When you read an English email, article, or report, stop scanning for meaning alone and watch for the verb\u2013noun and adjective\u2013noun pairings. The moment you see <em>&#8220;we need to address this issue&#8221;<\/em> \ub610\ub294 <em>&#8220;a major setback,&#8221;<\/em> register that <em>address + issue<\/em> \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 <em>major + setback<\/em> belong together. Noticing is the skill that feeds everything else; without it, the input washes over you and nothing sticks.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Record in Chunks, Not Single Words | \u4ee5\u8a5e\u584a\u8a18\u9304,\u800c\u975e\u55ae\u5b57<\/h3><p>Keep a collocation notebook \u2014 paper or a notes app \u2014 and here is the one rule that makes it work: never record a single word. Record the whole chunk with a sample. Instead of writing <em>deadline = \u622a\u6b62\u65e5\u671f<\/em>, write <em>&#8220;meet a tight deadline \u2014 We can still meet the deadline if we start today.&#8221;<\/em> The example sentence stores the grammar and the partners together, so when you review, you are rehearsing a usable phrase, not a dictionary entry.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reuse Within Twenty-Four Hours | \u5728\u4e8c\u5341\u56db\u5c0f\u6642\u5167\u4f7f\u7528<\/h3><p>A chunk you record but never use fades within days. Force one use within a day \u2014 drop the new collocation into a real email, a Slack message, or a sentence you say out loud while commuting. This is spaced repetition through real use, and it moves the chunk from passive recognition into active speech (\u53e3\u8aaa). The collocations you actually deploy are the ones that survive.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6.jpg\" alt=\"a man sitting in front of a laptop computer\" class=\"wp-image-5854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-6-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">a man sitting in front of a laptop computer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mistakes Taiwanese Speakers Make Most | \u53f0\u7063\u5b78\u7fd2\u8005\u6700\u5e38\u898b\u7684\u932f\u8aa4<\/h2><p>Almost every collocation error traces back to one habit: translating directly from Mandarin. <em>\u958b\u71c8<\/em> becomes <em>&#8220;open the light&#8221;<\/em> instead of <em>turn on the light<\/em>; <em>\u5403\u85e5<\/em> becomes <em>&#8220;eat medicine&#8221;<\/em> instead of <em>take medicine<\/em>; <em>\u8a0e\u8ad6<\/em> attracts a stray <em>~\uc5d0 \ub300\ud55c<\/em> to make <em>&#8220;discuss about.&#8221;<\/em> Each is grammatically reasonable and completely wrong to a native ear. The fix is not more grammar \u2014 it is replacing the Mandarin chunk with the English chunk as a single unit.<\/p><p>The second common trap is over-relying on the most general verb. Learners lean on <em>do<\/em> \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 <em>make<\/em> for everything because those verbs feel safe, producing <em>&#8220;do a meeting&#8221;<\/em> \ub610\ub294 <em>&#8220;make a homework.&#8221;<\/em> Precise English prefers the specific collocation: you <em>hold<\/em> \ub610\ub294 <em>\ub2ec\ub9ac\ub2e4<\/em> a meeting, and you <em>do<\/em> your homework. When in doubt, look the noun up in a collocations dictionary rather than guessing the verb.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7.jpg\" alt=\"a person writing on a notebook with a pen\" class=\"wp-image-5855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/collocations-vocabulary-skill-sound-natural-7-600x379.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">a person writing on a notebook with a pen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tools and Habits That Make It Stick | \u8b93\u642d\u914d\u8a5e\u5167\u5316\u7684\u5de5\u5177\u8207\u7fd2\u6163<\/h2><p>A few resources accelerate the whole process. A dedicated collocations dictionary \u2014 the <em>Oxford Collocations Dictionary<\/em> is the standard \u2014 lets you look up any noun and see every verb and adjective that naturally pairs with it. Free online tools like the Cambridge Dictionary show collocations inside example sentences, and corpus-based sites let you check whether a pairing is actually used. For working professionals, an English tutor (\u82f1\u6587\u5bb6\u6559) who corrects collocation errors in real time is worth more than any app, because the mistakes you do not notice are the ones that never improve.<\/p><p>Beyond tools, the real lever is consistency. Five new collocations a day, recorded as chunks and used within twenty-four hours, compounds into roughly 1,800 usable phrases a year \u2014 far more than enough to transform how you sound in meetings and on the TOEIC speaking section (\u591a\u76ca). The learners who break through are not the ones who study hardest in a single weekend, but the ones who run the small loop every day.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Correct to Natural | \u5f9e\u6b63\u78ba\u5230\u9053\u5730<\/h2><p>Grammar gets you to correct; collocations get you to natural. For a Taiwanese professional, that gap is the difference between an email that is understood and an email that is respected, between a presentation that is tolerated and one that persuades. You already know thousands of English words. The work now is not learning more words \u2014 it is learning which words belong together, one noticed, recorded, and reused chunk at a time.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources &amp; Further Reading | \u53c3\u8003\u8cc7\u6599<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collocation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia \u2014 Collocation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford Learner&#8217;s Dictionaries<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ucea0\ube0c\ub9ac\uc9c0 \uc0ac\uc804<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\uc601\uad6d\ubb38\ud654\uc6d0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=oxford+collocations+dictionary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford Collocations Dictionary (Amazon)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammar gets you to correct; collocations get you to natural. A practical notice-record-reuse method for Taiwanese professionals to stop building English word by word and start speaking in native 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