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| narigold Newbie United States Joined 4115 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 11 21 August 2013 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
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I tag everything I enter into Anki with its category, that way I can refer back to a theme of words in the future. But I
learn the cards randomly jumbled together. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 10 of 11 22 August 2013 at 12:27am | IP Logged |
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I think thematic approach can be a valuable part of vocab learning but I am not sure thi way is the best one. I was forced to keep a thematic vocab notebook at school and it didn't work much.
If you want to have some well arranged place with the thematic vocabulary and to be easily able to fill the gaps, that I think a thematic vocabulary textbook (like the classical example in French: Vocabulaire Progressif or English Vocabulary in Use) is a better option as it will give you examples as well. I don't know any for Italian unfortunately but I am sure you can find some. There are as well thematic dictionaries, either pure text like most such books for German learners that I have seen, or there are illustrated ones (and I saw two including Italian!). Or you can get thematic ressources like wikipedia or cook books or blogs, children textbooks and so on. That is another context rich way to do this. However,for the memorisation process, it might be more efficient to try Iversen's wordlists or to put the words in the mix in Anki or perhaps approach them thematically by connecting them to a story or something like that. Learning from the thematic wordlists by themselves does have one main disadvantage from my experience. It is easy to confuse the similar words together (Brombeere, Himbeere, Erdbeere are an extreme example). Or to create other connections in your mind than you want so you will want to say a word but remember only the others around. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| el_polaco Diglot Newbie PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4110 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 11 23 August 2013 at 9:23pm | IP Logged |
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Personally, I think it's good to make such a list. On one place fruits, on the other
vegetables and so on. But it's too boring to learn all the fruits and all the vegetables. The point is to mix the words from different categories. Try to create a story with these random words. It's a way much helpful then such learning from the lists. Because it's still a list. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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