- How many new words have you learned in your target language? How did you learn them? Do you have realistic goals for your acquisition of vocabulary?
In the past couple of weeks, I feel like my vocabulary in Hindi has increased a lot. During each session with my language partner, we'd come across new words through one on one conversations, through reading Hindi newspapers and articles together and also through Bollywood movies that I watched on my own time.
I found that the best way to learn was to not be shy or under-confident about admitting that you don't know something. The first step to learning is to acknowledge that learning is endless, and with this in mind I've tried to make a note of words that I'm not familiar with along with their meaning in my SDLC notebook. I stop my language partner during a conversation if I come across a word that I don't know the meaning of. Atul has been excellent since he is very encouraging and answers my many vocabulary questions!
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