{"id":230,"date":"2006-11-24T19:33:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/24\/building-vocabulary-2\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T19:33:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T18:33:21","slug":"building-vocabulary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Building vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some useful advice on a site I found today called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-learning-tips.com\/\">Language Learning Tips<\/a>. One of the tips for building vocabulary is that you try to learn three new words in the language(s) you&#8217;re studying every day, and that you write them down in a diary or blog. After a year, you&#8217;ll have a vocabulary of over a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p>I think this technique could be expanded by trying to use the new words in sentences, and maybe even building up a story with them.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to learn five new words a day in seven languages for several months with some success. Though I think maybe I was a bit overly ambitious. Maybe three words a day in five languages would be more achievable. The trouble is, which languages? Definitely Welsh, Irish and Spanish, and perhaps Japanese and Czech.<\/p>\n<p>Have you used this technique or something similar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some useful advice on a site I found today called Language Learning Tips. One of the tips for building vocabulary is that you try to learn three new words in the language(s) you&#8217;re studying every day, and that you write them down in a diary or blog. After a year, you&#8217;ll have a vocabulary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}