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How many words do you learn per day? | ||
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| Andrew~ Groupie United States howlearnspanish.com Joined 5266 days ago 42 posts - 67 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 113 of 213 10 July 2010 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think how familiar you are with the language has a great deal to do with how many words per day you can learn.
Meaning that if it's a language you've just started learning, especially if it doesn't use a writing system you're familiar with (e.g. you're a native English speaker and you've just started learning Japanese), you're going to be a lot slower starting out than if you've been at it for a while. Now that I'm intimately familiar with Spanish, and most importantly how verbs are conjugated in that language, it's much, much easier for me to learn new words than it was at the beginning. You'll also have a much easier time if a language you already speak is related to the one you're learning, such as someone who speaks Spanish already trying to learn Portuguese or Italian. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| chirel Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5308 days ago 125 posts - 159 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: French | Message 114 of 213 10 July 2010 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | ||
It's a good advice to those who do both directions, and I'm a fan of small goals myself. However, I only study words to one direction (question:Finnish, answer:target language), I've never felt the need to do the other direction. I recently increased the amount of daily new words (despite the fact that the reviews seemed a lot of work already), because I'm on a time limit here and I really need to go through a lot of grammar and related sentences plus learn more vocabulary and I've started to use Anki for more than just the inflections. So if I add more stuff, I need to learn more words per day. I'll relax a bit, when I see that I can actually do everything in the time I have. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| feanarosurion Senior Member Canada Joined 5279 days ago 217 posts - 316 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish, Norwegian | Message 115 of 213 10 July 2010 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good plan Chirel! That's exactly why I'd been having so many words per day. I had been adding massive amounts of cards every day, and so I needed to see a fair amount of them every day in order to make sure I'd see them all. Either way though, there will come a point where everything will just even out, and you'll be down to 10 or 20 reviews per day. Still, the only way that will happen is if you stop adding new cards, and it might be a little while before you feel like you can actually do that. Still, very good plan, just do what you have to to make it work!
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5788 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 116 of 213 10 July 2010 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Very good move, in my opinion. When I started my L2 I got into the habit of only studying for passive understanding and I regretted it later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5350 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 117 of 213 13 July 2010 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately I do not manage to study my languages every day, and when I do, often I do not focus on vocabulary. I find this to be the worst part of language learning, as there just doesn't seem to be a great method of memorizing tons of words, and even when one does acquire a useable amount of vocabulary, there are still tons of words that need to be learned. With that said, often I try to just memorize the words as I go, while reading a grammar, book or graded reader of sorts. During these situations, I easily learn 20 - 50 some words, and after seeing them numerous times and looking them up multiple times, I just remember them.
There are instances, however, where I feel that I want to beef out my vocabulary and in these situations, I can learn between 50 - 150 words in a day, comfortably, although it may require a few hours. For instance, I gathered several of my German sources yesterday and decided that it is time for me to learn my musical terms in German, since I am a musician. I glanced over words such as "Viertelnote," "punktierte halbe Note," "Bund," "schwarze Taste" and "Wirbel" once or twice, and for the most part, the terms stuck in my mind. I just wrote them on flashcards and went through the rotation once or twice. For me, thematic approaches work so much better for memorizing vocabulary, as one can see words in relation to one another, and thus it sticks better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5342 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 118 of 213 13 July 2010 at 9:21am | IP Logged | ||
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It takes me about 4 days to really memorise about 30 words in German. But about a week or
so for me to really recall it. What has help me a lot of hearing the pronunciation of the word a couple of times and not actually trying to memorise words helps me memorise them. Edited by zekecoma on 13 July 2010 at 9:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| astein Pentaglot Groupie Germany Joined 5266 days ago 80 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, French, Mandarin Studies: Russian, Dutch | Message 119 of 213 13 July 2010 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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This may seem paradoxical, but I have found that my recall is better when I learn more
words in a day. Also, I don't even mean more words for a particular language. If I learn 500 Chinese words one day, alongside 250 German words, I will recall the German words better than if I had only studied those, and I will certainly recall the Chinese words better. I don't know why this is, but it has seemed to be true for me. Last week I managed to learn 2500 cards of German and 1600 Chinese, putting in about 1.5 hours total for learning per day, with another 1-2 hours for review. My Anki deck is starting to get scary, though. I have around 1,300 reviews a day for each deck for the next 10 days straight. Yikes! When you have a bunch of reviews, I have found that a good method is to sort the deck so that short interval reviews come first. You can get through the new reviews (which are arguably the most important) while you still have your sanity. Then, it is a bit of a snowball effect as you near the end, seeing as the answer should be completely automatic once you have an interval of 4-5 months. By the way, I never, ever rate the cards at 4 "very easy", as the multiplication effect can take the interval way to high. I like to keep it so that I can go through at a very nice pace, even if it means more cards. I know you can change the multipliers, but I am simply to lazy to figure out where they should be. Edited by astein on 13 July 2010 at 10:15pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5350 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 120 of 213 13 July 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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astein, those numbers are totally amazing.
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