Do you keep a vocabulary list?
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Do you keep a vocabulary list?
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Today I do the same thing. Sometimes I will scan a dictionary for words I don't know or write down words which I run into in my reading that I am unfamiliar with. I make a list and review it from time to time to, test myself. I have found that it was much easier to learn when I was a kid than it is now though *LOL*.
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But I don't really see it helping me. If I don't understand a word, I would write a short passage using it so that my brain gets used to its meaning. But if I just note down the word and its definition on a list, there's no guarantee that I learnt the word. There's not much difference between checking the vocab list and checking the dictionary. So why bother?