The Hidden Universal System that can Multiply Your Vocabulary

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Re: The Hidden Universal System that can Multiply Your Vocabulary

Postby Not 4 » Mon Aug 15, 2022 1:40 pm

I love this

As a complete newcomer to languages I hadn’t thought of this I’m 7 months in to learning Spanish and I’m starting to come across this more and more , but just in single instances here and there , I will check out the end of Fsi , but does anyone know anywhere else l would come across this type of thing explained specifically for Spanish ?
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Re: The Hidden Universal System that can Multiply Your Vocabulary

Postby Cainntear » Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:42 pm

Not 4 wrote:I love this

As a complete newcomer to languages I hadn’t thought of this I’m 7 months in to learning Spanish and I’m starting to come across this more and more , but just in single instances here and there , I will check out the end of Fsi , but does anyone know anywhere else l would come across this type of thing explained specifically for Spanish ?

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish is famous for using this approach. It's a really old book, but still widely available because people love it (although I've never used it).
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Re: The Hidden Universal System that can Multiply Your Vocabulary

Postby anitarrc » Thu Aug 18, 2022 10:36 am

My level of vocabulary is this
16876 according to this

https://t.co/UVnFjPqaUe

but would never rate my level higher than c1 because I always fail in some fine grammatical distinction of subjuntivo pretérito which cervantes or others test. Same goes for segunda persona pl, we have voseo instead.

Did I ever use lists? nope. Cards? nope. Any other method? no. I listened, talked, was corrected. Again and again and again. I remember the name of car parts or tools related to their purpose in a car, not to another language.

I read and write. At work, I research words all the time. Civil engineering is what I dread most, apart from legal texts.

Maybe these methods work for some or many. I simply prefer to read a book. If Ildefonso Falcones confronts me with a medieval garment, I look it up if I'm curious. If not, I pass. Either way, I will remember it is a medieval garment.
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test your vocabulary - a new apporach

Postby anitarrc » Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:36 am

Try this one
http://vocabulario.bcbl.eu/vocabulario/test
it is quick and very eye opening when you get to the words you didn't know

My result was:
Has respondido SÍ al 73% de las palabras correctas.
Has respondido SÍ al 0% de las palabras inventadas.
Este resultado te otorga una puntuación corregida de 73% - 0% = 73%.
Este es un nivel alto para una persona nativa.
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Re: test your vocabulary - a new apporach

Postby Kraut » Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:59 pm

anitarrc wrote:Try this one
http://vocabulario.bcbl.eu/vocabulario/test
it is quick and very eye opening when you get to the words you didn't know

My result was:
Has respondido SÍ al 73% de las palabras correctas.
Has respondido SÍ al 0% de las palabras inventadas.
Este resultado te otorga una puntuación corregida de 73% - 0% = 73%.
Este es un nivel alto para una persona nativa.



https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... bl#p191833

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