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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6716 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 32 21 January 2014 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have been doing some research and am curious: how many reviews of vocabulary do you think you would need before it is solidly consolidated in your memory? Edited by FuroraCeltica on 21 January 2014 at 9:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5185 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 32 21 January 2014 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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At my age - around 648 :-)
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| Hungringo Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 3839 days ago 168 posts - 329 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, English, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 32 21 January 2014 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's difficult to tell. In my experience the most important is to see or hear the word in context as many times as possible. Those words that you often use always will be more secured than less frequent words.
This is why I think it's often easier to learn a new language from scratch to an intermediate level, than moving from intermediate level to really advanced skills. Words like table, chair, sleep, read, eat, big, small etc. are easy to retain because you come across them very often. On the other hand, I always forget the English name of grebe, for instance. Unless you are a bird-watcher or wild-life photographer, several years might pass until you hear this bird's name again. Edited by Hungringo on 21 January 2014 at 10:27pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6448 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 4 of 32 21 January 2014 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, context is the key. Also the difficulty/length of the word and whether it's similar to other words you know (can be a good or a bad thing).
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| JiriT Triglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 4648 days ago 60 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, German | Message 5 of 32 21 January 2014 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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The question is in fact very complex. The rule is what you do not use, you are
forgetting it. It is less important how many times you have repeated the word. More important is when you used the word last time. I also believe, it is good to distinguish between the two stages. The first stage, you learn words mainly mechanically, by memory drill. The question should rather be how many times to repeat each word in one's memory drill system. In my opinion the last repetition interval should be at least 2-3 months, ideally 6 months (which should make about 10 or 12 repetitions totally). But it is good to be more focused on natural use repetition. Then you do not have to count the repetitions or the length of the last interval. Memory drill should be used at the beginning and then you should repeat the vocabulary in a natural way: by reading, listening, speaking etc. Without learning words in their natural use you can learn the words well (mechanically) but you can not use them well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 3903 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 6 of 32 21 January 2014 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Apparently, Dr. Paul Pimsleur developed his "graduated interval method" based, to a large extent, on the theory of memory postulated by Professor C.A. Macy. Here is the Wikipedia version of the tale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduated_interval_recall#Pimsl eur.27s_graduated-interval_recall Edited by Speakeasy on 21 January 2014 at 11:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5242 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 7 of 32 22 January 2014 at 2:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I find that deliberately learning a word (such as from a wordlist) helps me identify it
later when I'm out "in the field" but that it's my exposure through context that really makes me learn it. My advice would be to always alternate deliberate vocabulary study with extensive reading, listening, and live conversations to see what pops up. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6676 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 8 of 32 22 January 2014 at 4:07am | IP Logged | ||
According to this article - 160 times. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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