Learning New Vocabulary
One thing that I have noticed on various other language blogs, is the discouragement of using flash cards to learn new vocabulary. I have read, “They don’t work”, “I don’t believe in using them”, and that you simply cannot memorize words using this method.
In my opinion, this is somewhat true. Then why do I have a picture of flashcards in this post? Well, the reason is because I believe using flash cards does actually work for me when I am trying to learn new Russian vocabulary, but I don’t rely on solely using flash cards to do so. I always use the new vocabulary by practicing the exercises, or even creating my own exercises by writing out sentences.
Part of the reason I was dreading starting Chapter 5 of тройка is because of the huge amount (to me) of vocabulary in this chapter: 85 words. The previous chapters also had a lot of vocab, but not this much. How will I learn most of the new words? Flashcards and writing exercises. Most of the vocabulary is essential, while others like “subtropical” seem pretty unnecessary for Chapter 5 of a Beginning Russian textbook. This textbook is a bit convoluted, and like I said before, I will do a review on this textbook later. I am going to return it soon since I only rented it, and I will buy the 1996 version which seems to be eventually the same, but we’ll see.
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