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| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6856 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 9 of 14 04 January 2007 at 6:41pm | IP Logged |
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Minor update. Thanks to SuperMemo, I've memorized every single new vocabulary word in my latest issue of Punto y coma. Painless. Now I'm afraid I've gone a bit crazy with it, as I've gone back to Puerta del Sol and anything I can find, basically, and I'm doing the same thing.
To be fair, it's only been, like, a week. But my boyfriend and sporadic Spanish conversation partner put it this way: "How the heck did you know THAT?!" Whenever I find myself stumped by some piece of grammar, I find and then enter corresponding sentences from "A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish". Every new word I come upon goes into SuperMemo as well. It's like a magical word repository: words that used to go flying by now get caught in my computerized net, from where they shall eventually be transplanted into my brain. This is TOO COOL. So thanks to Ari for suggesting SuperMemo! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 10 of 14 05 January 2007 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
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You're welcome :)
Personally, I'm doing the dictionary approach. I'm going through my dictionary from A to Ö (it's a Swedish-French one), adding the words I want to learn (which isn't all of them, of course). I'm getting intrigued by the way it's used by the guy in those links, though. Maybe I'll try that. But that takes a lot more time to memorize. I'm usually content with knowing the translation. When I encounter the word in writing and/or speech, it'll give me the context which tells me how to use it. If I don't encounter the word, it's not common enough to be bothered with using, anyway. But maybe I'll try some of those sentence items, too. Thanks for those links. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6856 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 11 of 14 17 January 2007 at 11:36am | IP Logged |
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I'm using a combination of vocabulary words and then sentences that use the vocabulary words. I'm trying a small experiment now, which is to memorize words without a context just to see if they will make sense when that context does arise. I'm having a terrible time with that, however, but I as I read (this is all through Punto y coma, the magazine) maybe it'll all make sense.
With sentences (my source is the Word of the Day at http://Spanish.about.com), I'll put the Spanish sentence as the question and the English translation as the answer. Then, I highlight the vocabulary word in question and then click the large Z button to create a Cloze Question (Alt + Z). This creates a new entry where the highlighted word becomes the answer. The question leaves an ellipse [...] in place of the word. Next to the ellipse (after the bracket) I write the English translation. So when I encounter this card later, now I've got to think of the actual word or expression in the context. I like to use this for words and combination of words because what I'm trying to get in my head is the "Spanish" way of saying things versus my own made up combinations which might be understood but have "gringo" written all over them. :) Anyway, that's one way, I suppose. But yes, if you use it every day, you will learn vocabulary. It's quite a remarkable product. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dogberry Groupie United States dogberrypatch.com Joined 6564 days ago 60 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 14 17 January 2007 at 4:56pm | IP Logged |
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I created a 'note' field in SuperMemo that I will put a sentence for words that I have found while reading or for words that I seem to have a problem with so as to give context for the word.
That same note field is used for any other helpful hints as I run across them. On mine, the note field only shows up after I ask for the answer - but for new words it might be good to have it up front. Edited by Dogberry on 17 January 2007 at 5:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Vinnie Groupie England Joined 6523 days ago 65 posts - 66 votes Speaks: English* | Message 13 of 14 26 January 2007 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
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I am interested in this flash card system of yours cait. Do you think that if i wrote out say, 2000 flashcards of italian verbs it would help my vocabulary alot? I mean beasting myself with it so much i dream with the words, do they stay in your mind?
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| CaitO'Ceallaigh Triglot Senior Member United States katiekelly.wordpress Joined 6856 days ago 795 posts - 829 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian Studies: Czech, German | Message 14 of 14 26 January 2007 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, it'll help. But I just wrote out a rather lengthy response, and realized that I think you were asking about the box of cards and not SuperMemo. Since I wrote that first post, I've been turned on to SuperMemo. I find this to be a million times more beneficial than my box of cards, which I quite liked, make no mistake, kind of how I liked can spinach growing up, which wasn't at all, but I knew I had to eat it.
SuperMemo, on the other hand, is like an organic farmer's market. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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