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GloomyBeaR United States77 Posts January 10 2011 14:53 GMT #21 Proficiency in a foreign language is like a muscle - if you don't use it, it atrophies. The methods listed above all work well, but you really need to put yourself in a situation where you're actually putting the language to use in order to make it stick; spending time a country that uses that language is ideal, but getting a conversation partner and meeting a few times a week can also be helpful. In the long run, this is even more important than learning individual vocabulary. Also, words that you learn contextually tend to stick with you easier than words you learn from a textbook; if you think about it, that's how we learned 95% of our first language. In terms of remembering vocab, though, I know a lot of my students carried around a little key-ring-looking thing that had about 50 small note cards on it, and would just quiz themselves when they were on a train, waiting in between classes, etc. It seemed to work well for them, but I've had a lot of luck personally with smart.fm as well.

kainzero United States5211 Posts January 10 2011 19:48 GMT #22 People saying Spaced Repetition / Anki / Mnemosyne are absolutely right. That thing is like a mind hack that makes you learn things extremely fast. (I even recognize Gingerninja's name from another board I read) Smart.fm is good too, but it's like a more structured, less controllable version of Anki and Mnemosyne. If you can handle doing things at your own pace, use Anki or Mnemosyne. Just remember what you're practicing. Listening, Speaking, Writing, and Reading are all completely different skills that need practicing... they're related, but need to be individually practiced.

pikaaarrr :3 United States593 Posts January 11 2011 05:33 GMT #23 Would you recommend Mnemosyne/Anki if you are learning a language just for fun? I'm trying to learn a little Korean just for the heck of it, and smart.fm seems to simply have more STUFF (or goals, as they call it). Do most people just make their own flashcards for those programs?

29 fps United States5724 Posts January 11 2011 06:24 GMT #24 i heard there was a site where you could write a sentence and then a native speaker checks your work soon afterwards. what was that site again? that could probably help you learn words because you learn from your mistakes when trying to produce sentences in the target language

GHOSTCLAW United States17042 Posts January 11 2011 06:26 GMT #25 I use anki, it's pretty good for this kind of thing as well, basically the same as memosyne

EGMachine United States1643 Posts January 11 2011 06:26 GMT #26 Gun-Gang's are bad for your health?

Galaxy77 Hong Kong256 Posts January 11 2011 06:38 GMT #27 My tip is making friends who barely speak English, that way you are always forced into remembering the language you are learning. I am not chinese but I live in Hong Kong, alot of people dont speak much English here, and when I have too, i concentrate hard and some how I can always remember the word im looking for, even if i only learnt it once or twice in the past.

Quint 467 Posts January 11 2011 07:05 GMT #28 On January 11 2011 15:26 Machine[USA] wrote: Gun-Gang's are bad for your health? I am studying to become a translator and that's exactly how we learn big amounts of vocabulary - using visualisation/imagination to create a very vivid and absurd picture in your mind and "saving" it to a certain place in your mind (look up loci method as well as word chunking).

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