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Hi so far I have been doing really well with the RTK method and the method of learning works great. However I’m wondering is there any good methods for learning Vocab and Grammar? As of now, the only way to do it seems to be just repeat the Vocab and Grammar over and over again until hopefully you remember. So is there any methods that could help?
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1) Sentence mining with Anki. On the front side of your card is a sentence with the words I don't know underlined. On the back, readings and definitions for the words. I prefer to do it in the context of sentences so that I have more context, and especially, if I mine a couple dozen pages from a novel, then I can call the whole scene to mind and it'll help me out.
2) Visualization. This is one of the reasons I like to sentence mine from novels, so that I can clearly imagine the scene to cement the vocabulary in my mind. But even if you're not doing that, when you memorize a word you can just try to imagine it, imagine yourself interacting with it, if you want to learn the word for "box" picture yourself hauling a box, feeling the rough texture of the wood, using a crowbar to open the box... and as you're doing that, just repeat the word to yourself, "Box, box, this is a box."
3) Exposure. Read a lot. Watch a lot of TV. Work your way through a graded reader. Look up what you feel like looking up, or what you see over and over (if you don't understand it after seeing it over and over). You'll get exposed to the most common, most essential vocabulary.
Edited: 2010-08-19, 6:02 pm