![]() If you don’t have the capacity to properly perceive and produce those sounds, or if you haven’t lived the real life situations to connect those sounds to then you won’t be able to speak the language. Because conversation is just the act of matching sound to situation. That emotion then anchors the word in your experiential memory, so that it’s more accessible next time that situation occurs.Īctually, in The Mimic Method, we don’t focus too much on words – we focus on sounds. The words you want to know are the words you experienced the acute pain of not knowing. So when we enter into a real life scenario, they’re inaccessible. Problem with studying vocabulary outside of a real life context is that there are no real experience to anchor the sound to. I’m not memorizing and recalling vocabulary like a robot anymore – I’m just expressing and understanding myself organically like a human being. So my mind goes back to that moment in my episodic memory, with all the sights, sounds, scents and feelings associated, and it strengthens the intuitive connection.ĭo this for a dozen words a day and after a few weeks things start to flow naturally. So it’s not a list of “words I know,” it’s actually a list of words “I know I’ve wanted to use in real life conversation.” I also play around and try to make different sentences with the words on the list. I quickly go through all the english words on that sheet and highlight the ones I can’t quickly recall the second language word for.įor those, I look it up on google translate, and listen to its pronunciation on. Then when I review later, I move those English words to a simple google spreadsheet with three columns: Actors, Actions, Things. Then I quickly write down the word IN ENGLISH in the notes app on my iphone. Then I listen to the person, and repeat what they said several times by ear until I know I’m pronouncing it correctly. Whenever I enter a real life conversation and I don’t have the word for the thing, I ask the person what the word is. Here’s how I build my vocabulary when I learn a new language. Some experts have updated their opinion, others still stand by what they said years ago, and some I couldn’t reach or didn’t want to take part in the 2019 update. Szynalski – Wiktor Kostrzewski – William Linney – Yangyang Update 2019Īs six years have passed since this post was first published, I thought it would be nice to see if the experts still think the same about the best way to build foreign vocabulary. Simon Ager – Steve Kaufmann – Stuart Jay-Ray – Susana Wald – Susanna Zaraysky Óscar Pellus – Pat Wyman – Professor Jabba – Samuel Gendreau Lutz Marten – Lynn McBride – Mark Thomson – Martin Benjamin – Olle Linge Kerstin Cable – Kevin Chen – Lizzie Fane – Lucas Kern Idahosa Ness – Aaron Knight – Albert Wolfe – André Klein – Anne MerrittĪnthony Metivier – Ben Whately – Benny Lewis – Camille Chevalier-KarfisĬatherine Wentworth – Corrine McKay – David Mansaray – Donovan Lee Mcgrath – James Heisig – John Fotheringham You can simply start scrolling from the top or go straight to your favorite language-learning expert by using the list of quick bookmarks below. So, without further ado, let’s get comfortable and dive in! There are really some golden nuggets down the page! The number of hours I put in to create this resource for you is near the number of replies but it was worth every second of it. The response was nothing short of overwhelming.Īlmost 40 replies flooded my inbox - creating a bomb of extremely balanced advice and giving you the opportunity to judge for yourself how to best go about learning more words in your target language. To add fuel to the discussion, and most importantly, to bring you fantastically useful advice on learning vocabulary in your target language, I asked a bunch of experts, authors, translators, and bloggers the following question: If there was one method for learning vocabulary that you’d recommend to the world, which one would it be? It’s not for nothing that polyglots call it the Kim Kardashian of the language-learning community. It must be the sexiest element of learning a language. Learning more words: experts share their favorite strategy. ![]()
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