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Permalink Reply by Marissa Bonnici on October 4, 2010 at 10:09am

I do keep a record of Korean words in a diary I carry around with me everywhere. I try to review it everyday on the subway. Although my list doesn't contain thousands of words yet, it is definitely growing daily! I find doing these quick reviews regularly is a very effective way of memorising and actually retaining vocab.

Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on October 4, 2010 at 10:19am

I agree.

But one problem with just a list is that you lose the context from which you originally found them. I like to carry around the actual source newspaper article clipping or book in which I found the words.

Permalink Reply by Marissa Bonnici on October 4, 2010 at 10:32am

I also like to study vocab with the use of news paper articles. I hope to use the business reviews from this group to bring my learning to the next level. I plan to print out these reviews and keep them in a folder to study with. Doing week 1 as we speak! There is already a lot of highlighted words :) Hopefully this will reduce as the weeks go by.

Permalink Reply by Michael A. Lesniak on November 30, 2010 at 6:01pm

I used to do this extremely diligently, and it was an incredible help. A key to this suggestion is that the person is reviewing the words every day, and not necessarily rigorously... just a quick review before sleeping is enough! Hmm... you know, considering how helpful this was I'm gonna have to get back into it!

Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on December 3, 2010 at 4:50pm

I agree with you Michael about the daily reviewing. It's in the repetition, day after day, along with applying and seeing in different contexts, that the words become part of one's usable lexicon. I can't tell you how much I regret the years I didn't follow this advice...