A Review of Language Learning Tactics

Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by JoeDaDude on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:46PM (#24455509)

One suggestion I was given, and am putting into practice: develop a large vocabulary, something like 1000 words, in your target language. You can do this without knowing grammar or verb tenses, or anything and it will give you a leg up on any conversations, lessons, etc.

How to learn 1000 words? I'm using the Leittner method, aka Spaced Repetition, as implemented in the Anki flash card app [1] , and beautifully explained in [2].

[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/

[2] https://ncase.me/remember/

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Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by nullsense on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:32AM (#24459364)

The most effective way at getting through the pain period for me was to Anki about 2000 sentences (both reading and listening cards for each sentence) and have that cover all the way up to upper intermediate level grammar. Doing so gives you a base of about 1500 ~ 2000 vocab at the same time.

After that progress takes off if you acquire vocab as fast as possible while speaking to natives as much as possible.

That initial bootstrapping phase can be done in 4 months.

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