Learning Journal #8 Vocabulary

[Henry Trinh]

Overall, I have not been focusing much on specific vocabulary, but instead on phrases. My thought process is that phrases will simply come in more handy and is definitely more applicable. Honestly, I know quite a few phrases at this point, but if you were to ask me about specific vocabulary in those phrases, I would struggle to figure out the definition. Thus far, I've focused on first learning phrases and then breaking it down in order to understand the vocabulary. From this method, I am able to deduce several meanings simply from looking at the sentence structure. For example, I may recognize from the phrase that the phrase is asking a question and may be able to recognize one or two words from it. Thus, I can get a general idea of what it is asking by using knowledge of other languages. It is all systematic. Since we have a little more than three weeks left in the semester, I am hoping to simply reinforce my language skills at this point to truly perfect my comprehension.