Learning English With TED

Contents

This repository contains materials for studying English.

• TED: transcript and notes of TED speeches (TED演讲稿和笔记)

• Magazines: notes of English magazines like The Economist （杂志精读笔记，以《经济学人》为主）

  • Year 2024：全年精读过316篇《经济学人》文章
  • Year 2025：精读50+ 《经济学人》文章

• YouTube: subtitles and notes of YouTube videos （油管视频字幕和笔记）

• Books: learning notes of English books （英文书籍读书笔记）

  • The Worlds I see by Fei-Fei Li （中文版已读完，李飞飞自传英文版（正在读，目前没时间继续读））

• Idioms: notes of most common American idioms (1,355 items in total) （常用美式俚语学习笔记）

  • Most Common American Idioms （已学完）

• ChatGPT: For articles generated by LLM models.

• Economy_Finance_Words: vocabulary list about economy and finance. （金融经济会计相关词汇）

  • 大约1200个条目（词汇和词组）

• Others: notes of blogs.

• Basketball: 《Hoops English：篮球英语完全手册》（一本学习篮球英语的完全手册）

• Medicine: 《Med English：医学英语完全手册》(一本学习医学英语的入门书)

Timestamp

[2025.03.23] Created a vocabulary list (approximate 1200 items) about economy, finance and accounting with the help of ChatGPT o1 model. Link here

[2025.01.21] Created a book about the history and future of U.S. financial markets: The Evolution of U.S. Financial Markets. This is a book created by Shizheng Li with the help of GPT 4o. Just for learning English. Its Chinese name is 《美国金融市场发展史》

[2025.01.20] Created a book about Carnegie Mellon University: Inside Carnegie Mellon University: Innovation, Education, and Global Impact with the help of OpenAI o1-mini and GPT 4o. Just for learning English. Its Chinese name is 《深入世界顶尖名校CMU内部：创新，教育与全球影响力》

[2025.01.20] Created a book about American tech history: From Cotton Gins to Quantum Chips: A Comprehensive History of American Technological Development with the help of OpenAI o1 and o1-mini LLMs. Just for learning English. Its Chinese name is 《美国科技简史：从轧棉机到量子芯片》

[2025.01.02] Have carefully read over 310 articles from The Economist in 2024.

[2024.12.11] Have finished the book: Most Common American Idioms; learned 1355 items.

[2024.12.04] Have acquired 1000 American idioms.

[2024.11.21] Have learnt 500 American idioms.

[2024.09.03] Have thoroughly read 200 articles from The Economist between June 13 and September 3, 2024 (two and a half months).

[2024.04.10] This project was launched in April 2024.

Format

Format of TED learning notes

# Title

Link:

Speaker:  

Date:

@[toc]

## Introduction

## Vocabulary

## Summary

## Transcript

## Afterword

Acknowledgement

For e-books of The Economist:

https://github.com/hehonghui/awesome-english-ebooks

https://github.com/Monkfishare/Calibre

Disclaimer

This project does not represent the author's political views and is only used for English learning.