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Permalink Reply by Simon Hoggett on July 20, 2011 at 10:32am

Thanks Steve. Your soapbox came just at the right time. I'm procrastinating during vacation.

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Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on July 20, 2011 at 8:43pm

Yeah, don't procrastinate.

One thing I've found is that I can only memorize so much as once. Taking a week off doesn't mean I can just do twice as much the next week; I still max out at the same amount next week whether I studied this week or not. That means slow and steady over the long term is the best approach.

One more thing I forgot to mention in the video is that the best way for me to remember words is to come across them organically later in my reading or discussion. So, vocabulary study in isolation without backing it up with practice is like trying to swim against the current (of my mind's tendency to forget what I've learned but not practiced).

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Permalink Reply by Rick Carlino on July 26, 2011 at 4:14pm

Steven,

It is quite a coincidence that you mention this as a vocabulary acquisition method- I by chance have started doing this with business news articles I pull off of Korean news sites.

One thing I have done aside from that is using a spaced repetition system. The one I am quite fond of at the moment is called memrise (www.memrise.com). They are a new start up and are relatively small right now, but they have a great team of developers who are eager to get feedback from their users. I like the SRS systems because they keep track of which words I need to review most.

Like you said though, vocabulary lists are easy to come by and if you don't "own" your words you won't get the full effect. I was using the "Korean 6000" list for a while but I'm starting to find that pulling words from news articles and conversation is more useful for me.

Either way, great soapbox. Does anyone else do things differently?

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Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on July 26, 2011 at 11:42pm

Thanks for sharing. That memrise.com concept looks very interesting. I'm going to study it a bit more when I get a chance.

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Permalink Reply by Pilar Perez-McKay on July 29, 2011 at 2:51pm

Amazing!

Very impressed with your determination and systematic approach - so well organised and documented.

 

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