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?
For each chapter of the textbook that I am currently using as my main study resource, there are two vocabulary lists. On average each list has about 20-25 terms which include nouns, adjectives, verbs, particles and common phrases/expressions. Adding up together, there are about over 100 words and phrases that I have studied over the past weeks of classes. Besides those vocabulary words, I learned some words and expressions such as different kinds of food, family, different job professions on a mobile language-learning application platform called Drops. I learned new words and phrases mainly by memorizing the formation and meaning of each word/phrase while writing them down on a piece of paper for 10 times each. The application of these words in sentences is also essential to the learning process. Also, for each learning session we have weekly quizzes to check on my memories of the new vocabulary.
Honestly speaking, I set up an unrealistic goal for how many words/phrases I will master in Korean by the end of this semester. However, by timely adjusting my learning pace and vocabulary goal, it is more efficient for me to digest the words I have mastered while keep up learning new ones.
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Yixi, it is quite reassuring to know that someone else set up unrealistic goals for themselves in regards to their target language. I also made that same mistake and believed that I would learn many more words than was reasonably expected. However, I do concur with your statement about rewriting words and the power of repetition. Through these past couple of weeks I have also found that repeating and rewriting the words in my target language has been an immense help.
Thanks for sharing and good luck with Korean. It seems as though you are having a swell time learning the language!