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I wish I could remember a word and it's meaning by only reading it once. Unfortunately, | I wish I could remember a word and it's meaning by only reading it once. Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | ==== Difficulties of vocabulary learning ==== | ||
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+ | - Too many words. | ||
+ | - Homophones. | ||
+ | - The relationship between sound and meaning is arbitrary. | ||
+ | - You must recognize every single word at once in order to be proficient in a language. | ||
+ | - Rare and obscure words are plentiful. You may encounter then once but when you encounter them, you'd better know them. | ||
+ | - Words with abstract meanings are difficult to learn. | ||
+ | - Words tend to acquire different meanings that are somehow synonymous in the native speaker' | ||
+ | - Every single word is a world of its own. | ||
+ | - Learning words amounts to learning an extremely vast array of topics. | ||
+ | - Slang. | ||
+ | - Inflection makes words unrecognizable. | ||
+ | - Words always acquire new meanings. | ||
+ | - Some adverbs are hard because they don't designate a thing but rather trigger a mental process in which clauses are emphasized, compared, softened, conditioned, | ||
+ | - The ability of creating new words. | ||
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+ | ==== What can or should be done in order to learn words? ==== | ||
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+ | Context, context, context. Use the world in real settings. | ||
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+ | ==== Eagerness for words ==== | ||
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+ | I want to all know words. Even the useless ones. | ||
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+ | I want to know how you say " | ||
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+ | ==== Words I don't know are ugly, words I know are beautiful ==== | ||
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+ | Repetition is good for learning words. You can call it the [[wp> |