Morgana wrote:Harry Potter och de vises sten is going alright. Lots of new vocab there. I remembered I had an SV-EN dictionary on my Kindle, and that has been making reading much more enjoyable! I am taking forever to read though because I spend a good chunk of time adding things to Anki.
Anki. Yeah. I feel like it does help. I hear words in the tv show that I learned from reading, but overall it’s rare that there is this kind of vocabulary overlap on “intermediate” words. Talking/dialogues/etc. vocab is just not the same as fiction/fantasy/YA vocab or news/stuffy editorials vocab. I’m adding 20-50 words most days. About half and half from news and HP. I include the sentences for 99/100 words. It’s a big help for recall. I’m not using Anki to test my knowledge, but reinforce it via more exposure. But all that adding does take a considerable amount of time, especially with what I add from Harry Potter (can’t copy&paste). Some days I admit the compulsion to put as much as possible (everything?) into Anki puts me off wanting to start studying at all.
I read your whole post!
If the Swedish translation of Harry Potter is anything like the French translation, there will be a LOT of repetition of specific vocabulary (all the interesting adjectives, adverbs and verbs that you're most likely adding to Anki), so I would recommend not doing any Anki cards for Harry Potter until you are at least halfway through the book, especially if you are already using Anki for other resources.
Of course, I hate Anki so I'm most certainly biased. Maybe it's useful enough for you that it's worth the extra effort. And I'll admit that my way of handling new vocabulary is not necessarily the most efficient, but it keeps me from getting exhausted. Generally, this is what I do:
1. See a new word.
2. Look it up in Kindle dictionary, or guess its meaning by context if it is obvious.
3. See the word again. What did that word mean... ?
4. Look up in dictionary.
5. Lather, rinse and repeat.
6. See word again. If I still can't remember it, and I think it's important enough to remember, at this point I will add it to some sort of vocabulary device (which for me is a handwritten list).
Anyway, the point is that you'll get a lot of vocabulary reinforcement from Harry Potter itself. Good luck!
EDIT: I wanted to add that although my method for vocabulary is not particularly swift, it does work. I am on the 4th Harry Potter book and I rarely have to use the dictionary.