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Alex John Posted 12 years ago
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How to learn thousands of words?

Which one of these methods is the best method:
1- Reading dozens of texts and setting down the words you don't know then looking them up in the Oxford dictionary. Trying to read those words' meaning again from the Oxford dictionary again.
2- Reading dozens of texts and setting down the words you don't know then looking them up in the Oxford dictionary then writing an example for each of them. reading those example from time to time.
3- You tell.
  

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From your writing I can see that you already know thousands of words. I think you may be wasting your time trying to learn another few thousand according to some organized method. Just keep reading.

  • From your writing I can see that you already know thousands of words.
  • I think you may be wasting your time trying to learn another few thousand according to some organized method.
  • Just keep reading.
  • Often the meaning of a new word will be obvious to you just from context.
  • In those cases where the same word keeps coming up and you keep forgetting its meaning, you might want to put the word on one side of a small card with the translation on the other side.
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From your writing I can see that you already know thousands of words. I think you may be wasting your time trying to learn another few thousand according to some organized method. Just keep reading. Often the meaning of a new word will be obvious to you just from context. In those cases where the same word keeps coming up and you keep forgetting its meaning, you might want to put the word on o

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