Today at work I've been making flashcards. Whenever I learn a language, I seem to have the best vocabulary growth with flashcards and steady, daily practice. I can learn 20 words a day without much effort via flashcards.
Of course, the more grammatically complex words and uses don't really work with simple flashcards, it does help build my noun repertoire; most words people use are nouns. Even with no understanding of a language, you can point and say a noun. So I'll use the flashcards this summer to build my list of nouns.
I'm using the Hippocrene Concise Dictionary "Farsi-English English-Farsi (Persian)" which has 8,400 total entries. At least with American books, I know they use word frequency lists--lists of the most common words used in a language, and then take the X-amount of most used words and put them in the dictionary. I'm just going to go down the list starting at A, and make a flashcard for whatever word I don't already know. I'll skip the grammar and "guts" of the language, and focus on only Nouns.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
L2 - Second Language Acquisition
This fall I begin LING438 at PSU ~ Second Language Acquisition, or L2 in linguistic terms. The course details and maps out the progress people make in various methods as they learn a second language.
Language learning has always been a joy and mystery to me. I’ve only recently learned what I was doing when I was learning. I tried learning Japanese in high school, via grade school texts and ingenious use of flashcards by my teacher. I learned Pashto in Afghanistan really quickly, though I’ve since forgotten it due to lack of use, and now have about 1500 words at the tip of my tongue every time I see an Afghan, but only able to repeat the same initial conversation you have with an Afghan who knows you speak Pashto:
“Pashto khabari kawil shi?”
“Wo. Ama zuh faghat lugh lugh Pukhto pohegum”
“wow! De cherta Pukhto zda kre?”
“Pu Khost ke zhwend kro.”
“Dera Pukhto heir khro :(”
Basically saying I speak Pashto, but only a little. I lived in the city of Khost, and I have forgotten most of it.
Language learning has always been a joy and mystery to me. I’ve only recently learned what I was doing when I was learning. I tried learning Japanese in high school, via grade school texts and ingenious use of flashcards by my teacher. I learned Pashto in Afghanistan really quickly, though I’ve since forgotten it due to lack of use, and now have about 1500 words at the tip of my tongue every time I see an Afghan, but only able to repeat the same initial conversation you have with an Afghan who knows you speak Pashto:
“Pashto khabari kawil shi?”
“Wo. Ama zuh faghat lugh lugh Pukhto pohegum”
“wow! De cherta Pukhto zda kre?”
“Pu Khost ke zhwend kro.”
“Dera Pukhto heir khro :(”
Basically saying I speak Pashto, but only a little. I lived in the city of Khost, and I have forgotten most of it.
Learn by Flashcard
Hi,
My name is Dan. I'm 25. This is my blog about learning language. I'm currently an Applied Linguistics ( + Business supply & logistics) major, and finishing my second year of Persian (Farsi, فارسی) at Portland State University.
At one point I was conversational in Pashto--one of the two chief languages of Afghanistan. At another point I was studying Japanese, and Spanish.
My goal with this blog is to record effective methods to learn foreign languages, highlight and review current language learning methods, mark my progress with the various languages--and linguistic methods--and offer any insights I have along the way.
I would appreciate as much feedback as possible, and hope to eventually create my own language learning system, which I'll then test on whatever language I'm trying to learn at that time. Every time I try learning a new language, the mothods being employed don't seem to work. So I'm going to be stubborn and find a better way to learn a new language. It's a gradual progress, so here I go...
My name is Dan. I'm 25. This is my blog about learning language. I'm currently an Applied Linguistics ( + Business supply & logistics) major, and finishing my second year of Persian (Farsi, فارسی) at Portland State University.
At one point I was conversational in Pashto--one of the two chief languages of Afghanistan. At another point I was studying Japanese, and Spanish.
My goal with this blog is to record effective methods to learn foreign languages, highlight and review current language learning methods, mark my progress with the various languages--and linguistic methods--and offer any insights I have along the way.
I would appreciate as much feedback as possible, and hope to eventually create my own language learning system, which I'll then test on whatever language I'm trying to learn at that time. Every time I try learning a new language, the mothods being employed don't seem to work. So I'm going to be stubborn and find a better way to learn a new language. It's a gradual progress, so here I go...
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