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How Do You Memorize Vocabulary? | ||
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| liuzf Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4852 days ago 23 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishB2 Studies: French | Message 1 of 55 20 June 2011 at 5:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Sometimes we have a long list of vocabulary words to memorize ,especially when learning a second language,memorization could be even harder. I usually use the most stupid way,I memorize new words over and over again untill I'll never forget them.
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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5501 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 2 of 55 20 June 2011 at 6:30am | IP Logged | ||
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The way I tend to learn vocabulary is by writing and thinking in the language. If I come across a new word whilst
reading, I'll write it down and then look it up later and add it to Anki (with example sentences). However atleast every 2 days I try and write something in my languages, about whichever subject or what's on my mind at that present time. Whilst doing this I try to incorporate some of those newly discovered words, as by me physically using them and having them associated with others which I already know, my mind seems to hold on to the new words far better. Also by writing and then reading over out loud what you've written, you make the most of many different sensory mediums which all aid to make memorisation a lot stronger and longer lasting. Reading books by the same author is also a good way to encounter similar words over and over again, and in context. Which is by far the most important thing. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4998 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 3 of 55 20 June 2011 at 6:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Right now I'm focusing mostly on grammar, so vocabulary isn't my biggest priority. However, I find I memorize new words much better when I see them in context rather than on a flash card. It's much more fun singing song lyrics and acting out dialogues than repeating the same word again. I've learned words through flash cards, though, and it does work for me. Also, to reinforce words sometimes I replace them while I'm thinking or speaking English and Spanish. To see the object or do the action just makes the word stick better.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5782 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 55 20 June 2011 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Generally speaking I can't memorize words without having written them. So the first step for me is always copying the new unknown words from the list in the textbook into my vocabulary book with the German (or Dutch or English) translation. Then I learn them several times, by highlighting the important words and the difficult words in a special way. Repetition is an important factor when learning vocabulary. You cannot memorize a row of words in only one go. So you have to repeat new words several times to memorize more and more of them.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 20 June 2011 at 6:52pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5050 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 5 of 55 20 June 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think my methods might differ depending on the language. For example, my vocabulary work is currently all Esperanto, so the words are almost effortless for me to learn. If they're almost the same as the English words (like "birdo" = "bird"), I just put it straight in Anki, and that works for me because it's obvious, so I'm not going to look at "birdo" and not know what it means. For less obvious words, I do something akin to Iversen's word list method, and then put them in Anki.
If the language I was studying was one with really alien words, this might not be sufficient, but with Esperanto it's plenty. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liuzf Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4852 days ago 23 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishB2 Studies: French | Message 6 of 55 21 June 2011 at 4:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Different people have different ways for memorizing vocabularies. Fasulye 's way of memorizing new unknown words is quite popular around my friends, Ido think I can take that way.
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| JordanB8m Newbie Hong Kong Joined 4856 days ago 23 posts - 27 votes | Message 7 of 55 21 June 2011 at 8:32am | IP Logged | ||
What exactly is "Fasulye 's way of memorizing new unknown words"? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liuzf Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4852 days ago 23 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishB2 Studies: French | Message 8 of 55 21 June 2011 at 9:52am | IP Logged | ||
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You can see Fasulye's post(the forth post):"copying the new unknown words from the list in the textbook into my vocabulary book with the German (or Dutch or English) translation".I think you maight not see all the posts and misunderstood me.
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