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something that happens quickly. They seek for ways to speed up their vocabulary
retention. It’s not wrong to look for ways to learn faster, but one needs to keep in
mind that having vocabulary words stick in your long-term memory takes a while!
GOLDLIST
Lots of people use the Goldlist Method for remembering vocab. However, it is not
my favorite because of the long time between learning a word and reviewing it
FLASHCARDS
Write the word on one side of a card/paper and on the back write its
meaning/pronunciation/usage. If you don’t like paper you can use apps like Anki.
You can go further and categorize the cards into piles of “know” “review” and
“new”.
REMEMBERING WORDS
Make sure to use your words as soon as you learn them. You can write them in
sentences and have them checked on websites like italki, or you can use it with a
native speaker and ask them to correct you if you use the word wrong.
LABELLING
You can label things around your room/house. Stick a piece of paper to your
fridge that lists the word for “fridge” in your TL. You can do it with anything from
SHOPPING LISTS/PLANNERS
language I’m learning. Especially if it’s a new word (like “call plumber”, for
example), writing it down more than once in your planner will engrain it into your
NOTETAKING
I find it much faster to write notes using Chinese characters/Korean words mixed
in with English. It sounds insane, but writing “名” is much faster than writing
“name”. Fellow students in university used to get frustrated when they asked to
borrow my notes because half of it wasn’t English. I guess this is just for speed
rather than vocab retention. You can make up your own ways to write things. For
example, instead of writing “design”, a word I use a lot, I take the Korean word
디자인 and shorten it to ㄷㅈ – two characters which are super fast to write!
Korean/Japanese/Chinese shows are especially good because they often put the
word being said on the screen (especially with explanations or something funny
someone said). You can also watch shows with subtitles in your TL rather than
spell the word that you hear, but you can try, and then type it in to a dictionary
app and check if you were right. In terms of checking word meanings, you can
also do a google search/other search engine search with the word to see what