{"id":11931,"date":"2015-12-10T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11931"},"modified":"2015-12-10T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T12:33:15","slug":"large-vocabulary-do-you-know-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11931","title":{"rendered":"Large vocabulary? Do you know how to use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of language learning approaches I&#8217;ve read and heard about focus on learning as much vocabulary as possible, and not worrying too much about grammar, at least at first. For example you might focus on learning the most commonly-used phrases and words, and on using them at every opportunity. Later on you might learn a bit of grammar.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/russianmadeeasy.com\/formal-informal-russian\/\">Russian lesson<\/a> I listened to today, the tip of the day is to focus on learning a relatively small amount of vocabulary and learning how to use it in a variety of contexts, rather than learning a lot of vocabulary, and then not being able to use it very well. Once you can use the words you know grammatically, it&#8217;s not so difficult to add more vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>In another lesson in this course the presenter suggests that learning grammar from books and tables isn&#8217;t very effective, and that it&#8217;s best to learn it from lots of examples and exercises which focus on real colloquial language.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finding the course very useful and like this approach. It introduces various aspects of Russian grammar gradually and gives you plenty of opportunities to practise using them.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of language learning approaches I&#8217;ve read and heard about focus on learning as much vocabulary as possible, and not worrying too much about grammar, at least at first. For example you might focus on learning the most commonly-used phrases and words, and on using them at every opportunity. Later on you might learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,13,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}