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?
At this point, I’ve learned about 35-40 words in my target language. I’ve learned them by using the Slides constructed by my language partner and attempting to make the vocabulary applicable to my own life. I honestly don’t believe that I’ve had realistic goals for my vocab acquisition. I planned to learn double or triple the amount of words that I have, but I failed to realize how difficult it is to learn a language in a completely different language family and to learn it without traditional instruction.
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I can definitely relate to learning a language that is in a different language family. I studied Spanish for a few years and I'm fairly fluent, but it related a lot to English grammatically. Korean is very different than both languages that I have been exposed to, so the vocabulary is not related whatsoever. I try to think of funny ways to remember certain vocabulary words that won't stick in my head. Maybe that would help.