jimmy wrote:alaart wrote:It's normal, just learn them again, and again, eventually they will stick.
At beginner and intermediate level, what I'm doing to combat this with flash cards is that each time I look up a word that is already in my database, I'll add a sample from a sentence (mostly the ones I just encountered, but also from dictionaries or google search), I also reactivate all previous sentences containing this word.
At an advanced level where you don't necessarily do flash cards, you could try to read material about the same topic as your target word that you keep forgetting. Eventually, inside this topic it gets repeated much more often, and so it will eventually stick too.
hi,
as I believe I am self taught ,
these days I am generally not willing to attend any education program ( except (education) programs that are compulsory or some programs that I aim something other than educating myself (e.g. to get social interaction with someone)) although I am not opposing to this activity.
so, beside expressing that it might be interesting information , I obviously heard at one (mandatory/compulsory) education video that listing words was not useful. Also, I am not sure on this detail but the lecturer was presumably saying that listing words was causing to forget them
Listing words without any context doesn't work for me. Like A=B. That would be the worst case, or maybe if it works, only with a certain kind of word - words that are very specific like government or soccer.
For more dynamic words I try to create as much context as possible around the word, audio, pictures, examples and translations from other languages that come the closest. I add notes later as I encounter them.
This works for me, but everybody is different, try around, and you will find what works for you.