How To Study Vocabulary
Since I ALWAYS struggled with learning vocabulary, I went to the library and borrowed every book about language learning that I could find! I will list different methods down below. I hope they‘re as helpful for you as they are for me! Also, this will be kind of a long post, so I apologize.
Firstly, it‘s important to acknowledge that there are different learning-types, and we all learn differently, so there‘s no guarantee that these will work for you!
Repetition of Vocabulary
1. after a couple of hours
2. after a day
3. after a week
4. after one month
5. after 3-4 months
It‘s also important to remember that you should only study a word/phrase until you know it. Everything else will be a waste of time. You should still repeat the words like I said above.
Different methods:
-Mind mapping
-Arrange the words into groups
-Structure things (e.g. vegetables: beans, carrots, tomatoes)
-Order things after similarities/differences
-Gradations (e.g. temperatures, months, time etc)
-Learn with pictures
-Step by step (e.g. ordering food in a restaurant)
It is important that you change things up and not study everything the same way every time! Your brain needs changes to understand things or you won’t be able to use the words in an actual conversation.
Other things you can do:
-Watch Videos in your target language
-Listen to music
-Record yourself saying the vocabulary and listen to it while you study
-Read read read, honestly just try to read as much in your target language as possible
-Try to think in your target language. Describe your surroundings to yourself, count things
-learn about the things you‘re interested in. If you’re interested in fantasy, learn those fantasy words fam
- never learn more than 30-40 words a day. Recommend would be 8-10 so you actually remember them -> Quality not Quantity!
-consistency is key
-some days it just won’t work and that‘s okay. Just try again tomorrow
-put random words/sheets with words on places where you will see them, e.g the bathroom mirror or the fridge or the inside of the door. You will read them all the time and will probably remember them way easier because of this.
I hope this was at least kind of helpful. I think the most important part for me to realize was that your brain needs changes in order to learn new things. If you just read one word 10 times you won’t remember it.
Say it, write it down, listen to it and write it down in a different context again. Read the words to your Axolotl.
Context is so so so important and will help you to remember words way easier.
Also remember to drink lotsa water because water is good. Also learn the word for water in your target language!















