Sunday, January 19, 2014

The horror of vocabulary learning! (And how to fight it.)

New exam, new words to learn. Having to remember about 300 words in a couple of days because you didn't have time to do it before. Or, let's face it, because you just didn't want to think about it before. Now doesn't that just sound lovely?^^
That's the situation I, and several of my fellow students, found myself in last week. Fortunately, not everyone was as lazy and procrastinating as me. Someone actually sat down and set up a list of all these words on vocabulary.com. Now, I know her name, but I don't know her in person. However, I really want to thank her. To share the list with all of us was really a thoughtful and nice thing to do and it saved me, and I can imagine many others, quite a lot of time and trouble. THANK YOU! :)
Doing the quiz on vocabulary.com is a different, but very nice way to remember the words. I used it on my phone and was able to use ever free minute, on for instance busses or trams, to go over them. However, sometimes I found myself ruling out the unlikely meanings and simply guessing the meaning instead of actually remembering it. That's why I printed out all the words, read through them once or twice and added my own meaning. With those two things combined, I was able to remember all these words in no time. So, hurray to my brain and the girl. :)

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