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Learning vocab: Did I do something wrong?
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atama warui
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21 January 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged

Thank you for clarification. Sounds like a good thing to try :)
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zenmonkey
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23 January 2012 at 10:30am | IP Logged

atama warui wrote:

Thank you for clarification. Sounds like a good thing to try :)

Another way to look at it, this idea of context is so well described by Iversen.

Iversen wrote:

When you learn a new word or an expression you have just put an object in your brain unto which innumerable connections to other things will in due time attach their tentacles - and the process of learning a language is the process of building this mesh.

Contextual learning is helping build this mesh.

Edited by zenmonkey on 23 January 2012 at 10:31am
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