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| Mr Smith Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4266 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 5 01 April 2013 at 1:18am | IP Logged |
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As title suggests: How best to use a thematic vocabulary book?
I've come across Wade's "Using Russian Vocabulary". It's more or less a huge list of words organised thematically without contextual examples. The exercises contained within the book range from "match the words on the left with the correct definition on the right", "pair nouns on the left with appropriate adjectives on the right", to (few) Eng-Rus/ Rus-Eng translations. Except from the translations, most of the exercises don't seem like they would aid hearty progress. I was hoping there would be example sentences for most of the words but sadly they're aren't. Is it worth investing precious time into a book like this? If so, how best to tackle it? Many thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4170 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes  Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 5 01 April 2013 at 8:47am | IP Logged |
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I have always found that learning words that way has helped me. I suppose it depends on how you learn things, but for me it's worth it, because I remember things easier when I have a complete image or story in my head. You could create a context by actually writing down a small story, which is what I often do. Edited by renaissancemedi on 01 April 2013 at 8:48am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mr Smith Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4266 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 5 01 April 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the input, it's very helpful.
Does anyone have any different thoughts about this? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6715 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 4 of 5 01 April 2013 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
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You could work around the lack of sample sentences by looking for them on the Internet. I sometimes do that even if such a book does include sample sentences, just to get a better picture of how the words are actually used.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4821 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 5 01 April 2013 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
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I use those as an addition to my textbooks as I find that the lessons, thematic
themselves, do not provide me with sufficient vocabulary and this is the most painless way to get more. You can put anything into anki. Or you can use the lists for FSI-like drills. A simple grammar or conversation structure can be practiced more than enough by using various items in it for enough times (I mean like this: "She doesn't drink wine. She doesn't drink cofee." And similarily, you can make for yourself many more example sentences based on the few you get in a textbook or another reliable source. Easier than googling them up as Julie advices and easy to do. Or some people find it useful to study the topic in a related situation. They put kitchen vocab in the kitchen on sticky notes, they study the travel list on their way to work etc. That story idea by rennaissancemedi is pretty awesome. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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