fromaalborg wrote:Anki-news: I realised that at my current level, I should only add “big words” to Anki: verbs, nouns and adjectives.
I've read this a few times now and I don't know what it means! Which are the 'big words'?
fromaalborg wrote:Anki-news: I realised that at my current level, I should only add “big words” to Anki: verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Le Baron wrote:I've read this a few times now and I don't know what it means! Which are the 'big words'?
fromaalborg wrote:For example:
"une poire" = "a pear".
Easy enough to learn. Big word.
But take a word like "selon" (a preposition), I simply can't remember what it means, even if I put it in a sentence, look up the etymology etc.
It means "according to".
Another example of a small word could be the adverb "ainsi", which mean in this way/so/thus/like this.
Hope that makes sense!
fromaalborg wrote:Le Baron wrote:I've read this a few times now and I don't know what it means! Which are the 'big words'?
For example:
"une poire" = "a pear".
Easy enough to learn. Big word.
But take a word like "selon" (a preposition), I simply can't remember what it means, even if I put it in a sentence, look up the etymology etc.
It means "according to".
Another example of a small word could be the adverb "ainsi", which mean in this way/so/thus/like this.
Hope that makes sense!
Le Baron wrote:fromaalborg wrote:
I follow what you're saying (and I know what the words mean), but I don't completely follow why they are designated as 'big' and 'small'. Rather than e.g. common/uncommon or having more denotation than connotation; more easily represented with one-to-one real examples such as your example with a pear.
I'm not not criticising your method for yourself, I've just never seen it before.
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