phonology Groupie Peru Joined 3472 days ago 40 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 1 of 12 10 July 2015 at 9:11am | IP Logged |
a year and I have in my mind 200 words memorized.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6357 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 2 of 12 10 July 2015 at 9:24am | IP Logged |
Couldn't resist.
It would help if you told us more about your learning process: which language, how much time you really put in, what resources you used etc.
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5080 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 3 of 12 10 July 2015 at 11:06am | IP Logged |
There are a couple of threads about this topic. Many HTLAL members use one or more of the following methods:
Flashcard apps, e.g. Anki
Mnemonics, e.g. Linkwords, RTK
Wordlists, e.g. Iversen's method
Bilingual/interlinear texts, e.g. Aglona Reader, Julian Rodriguez (has some English-Spanish texts, e.g. this one)
Dedicated learning apps, e.g. LWT/FLTR
Edited by Doitsujin on 10 July 2015 at 11:29am
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soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3667 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 4 of 12 10 July 2015 at 3:10pm | IP Logged |
I second the mnemonics idea. It's almost a skill in itself, you get faster and faster
and you'll eventually be able to immediately tie a new word to something to remember
it better.
Are you making sure you learn the words L1->L2 as well as L2->L1? Surprisingly, these
don't really cross over (not for me, at least), and just because you can quickly go
from translating a word from English to Spanish doesn't mean you can do Spanish to
English just as quickly, you have to practice both.
Other tips:
-Write the words down
-Act out verbs
-Picture an image in your head
-Make up sentences and use them (or find an online Spanish dictionary that provides
example sentences)
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carlyd Groupie United States Joined 3749 days ago 94 posts - 138 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 5 of 12 11 July 2015 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
I read a book about language learning recently, and agreed with the author on vocabulary--don't learn the word, own the word.
I'm following his advice of 10 words a day--go over them at least 10 times as words, but then actually use them--out loud, in sentences. Even if you have to have a weird conversation with the dog, use the word as many times as you can in as many different sentences as you can.
I've found that I have much better recall of a word if I've made it part of actual language, rather than a memorized word list.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6357 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 6 of 12 12 July 2015 at 9:50am | IP Logged |
Which book? Fluent in 3 months?
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chaotic_thought Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 3302 days ago 129 posts - 274 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, French
| Message 7 of 12 12 July 2015 at 1:44pm | IP Logged |
phonology wrote:
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How exactly did you count these words? If you're using flash-cards, for example, it's possible that flash cards just aren't for you. Having written down 200 flash cards and memorized them does *NOT* mean that you only know 200 words.
We set goals in language learning for motivational purposes. Some can be motivated by the goal "Learn X words in this language". If this goal doesn't work for you, pick another. It can be as simple as "Read this book." or "Watch this television series." or "Listen to/read the news in my learning language every day for one month."
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Lucie Tellier Diglot Newbie France Joined 3230 days ago 21 posts - 27 votes Speaks: French*, English
| Message 8 of 12 12 July 2015 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
I've learned over 200 words in a day before. If you've learned 200 words in a year, it's because you didn't even take the time to learn one word a day.
Get out a flash cards 50 times a day with your word on it during downtimes, do that for a month and come back.
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