Looking back at my most recent language learning process, which was last semester when I was learning Danish, I learned about 500 words (nouns and adjectives, not including words like preposition, etc). I took Danish class and the learning process was cumulative and gradual. I learned most of the words through conversations in text book. Those conversations were all about daily activities, greetings, parties, events, traveling, etc. So as an exchange student who traveling a lot in Denmark, those conversations were really helpful and interesting. Because I wanted to know those words and how to talk in Danish. Also, the conversations were getting longer and longer in the text book. So not only the new words were included in conversations of later chapters, also the words we learned at the very beginning were also present. In that way, I got to learned a lot of Danish daily life words.
Another way that I used to learn Danish words very effectively was to read the advertisement or signs during traveling in the cities. When I was waiting for bus, metro, etc, I read those ads over and over again. Some were on the stream TV some were on the paper posters. At last, I was able to remember those words that repetitively show up in the ads.
My goal before taking the Danish class was about to learn basic words that could help me to read the menu and order, and
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