While you cannot really control your brains ability to store words in your passive or active vocabulary, it doesn’t mean you cannot consciously try. I will go through some techniques that you can use to help you remember words and initially get them into your passive vocabulary, before the moving them over to your active
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It can seem like there is a number of different ways to learn new vocabulary, but the reality is that no matter what you do, the words all enter your memory in the same way. Words will firstly enter your passive vocabulary and from there they may go to your active vocabulary. I will explain
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Immersion is pretty important when it comes to language learning and you will need a lot of exposure to the new language to really make significant progress. You will find there are many different ways to get this exposure; you will probably find some of them easier, or maybe just more enjoyable, but it doesn’t
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There are a number of different ways to learn a language and one of those is through doing a lot of reading, which could be argued as the best way to learn. While I would suggest that you should use a number of different approaches to learn, if you just wanted to just use
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Reading seems like it should be a pretty straight forward and simple task, however, when we are reading in a new language we will often make a lot of mistakes as it can be more difficult than we realise. These small mistakes can all add up and hinder our progress. I will go through some
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Reading in a new language is always uncomfortable at first, which means that you will be slow. This can be extremely frustrating and it can feel like you are not making much progress. Luckily this is not something you need to be stuck with forever. You can actually end up reading as fast in your
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Practicing Reading in your new language is pretty simple, you just read, but I will go through some of the little details you should pay attention to, to make sure you are not slowing yourself down as well some techniques you can use to maximise your progress. Practicing reading in a new language takes times
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For some people, reading in a new language can cause them a lot of anxiety. This is perfectly normal, it is a difficult task and you will be very uncomfortable with the whole process for some time. However, this fear needs to be overcome. Reading is extremely important when you are learning a language and
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When you start learning a new language you might wonder what you should do and often I get asked if focusing on reading is a good idea, which it absolutely is. It doesn’t matter what level you are at, focusing on reading will always be beneficial for you and it is something you should put
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When you start reading in a new language you will every quickly find out that you are not that good at it. Reading in a new language is difficult, so it is only normal to ask how you can improve. Luckily it is quite easy to get better, you just need to put a lot
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