Which resources are most helpful? What difficulties have you encountered? How do you assess your progress? Reflect on learning new words. Set yourself realistic goals for vocabulary learning.
-The most helpful resources is obviously my language partner. Thai, being a tonal language, is very difficult to pronounce new words properly without the assistance of a native speaker. Other useful resources are my old Thai textbooks, workbooks, dictionary, and the Byyki.
-It is difficult to attempt to expand my vocabulary because I haven't actively learned Thai in about a year so I constantly need refreshers on remembering what I once knew. As a result, I have been spending half of my time learning new vocabulary and half of my time quickly reviewing old workbooks.
-I am assessing my progress based first on my ability to learn new words but ultimately I will assess myself based on my listening comprehension skills. If I am going to truly improve significantly at learning Thai I need to be able to process sentences quicker with a broader vocabulary base.
-I have a solid base of Thai built up so learning new words is not that difficult at this point. I have been able to teach myself 10 new words per day. My goals are to continue this trend while keeping good records of the topic-specific vocabulary learned.
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