3 Mistakes To Avoid When Learning Vocabulary In a New Language
When I first started studying Spanish, I thought learning vocabulary would be the easiest part.
I believed I only needed to come across new words and they would eventually make it into my daily vernacular. I was so excited to discover a new language that I understandably did not want to be slowed down by any trivial task.
Maybe you are in the same situation: you just started your language-learning journey and you can’t wait to jump into the grand ocean of knowledge in front of you. Even though this excitement should not be contained, I wish I had known there still are some mistakes to avoid when learning vocabulary in a new language.
Here are 3 of them.
1. Not writing it down
When we first start learning a new language, its lexicon can seem gigantic and infinite right? There are so many categories to learn just to make a simple sentence but we want to be able to express our thoughts as soon as possible. Thus, we may be tempted to simply skim through a dictionary and make sentences as we go.
While this can help better your searching and categorizing skills, throughout my experience, I…
