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Originally Posted by jeff-wang  As a student, I have to and also want to learn a foreign language, but I meet some barriers. Here is one of them. (Saying the truth, I’m learning English)
How to remember words quickly and more easily? After many years’ learning, grammar seems no hard to me, but I feel it difficult to remember more and more words. Can anyone give me some advice?(ways about other language is OK) |
One of my friends from high school went on a Mormon mission to Italy and, obviously, had to learn Italian. He wasn't a great student and had literally no aptitude for foreign languages. I used to joke with him that he shouldn't expect to learn a second language when he hadn't even mastered his native language.
Anyway, one of his tricks was reading Italian comic books and picture books for small children. The pictures are usually very descriptive in what is going on, and he said that he picked up more this way than in any of his intensive language classes.
If you have the time, just watching American TV shows can be very helpful. I'm always trying to improve my Spanish and I've found that just watching television shows in that language--particularly dubbed versions of programs I'm already familiar with--is a great way to pick up a lot of vocabulary quickly.