So, this blog post is supposed to be dedicated to my personal vocabulary notebook in English. Aha, alright. Okay. Uhm, well let me see. Where is it? Seems like I can't find it? Have I put it on the shelf where my dictionaries are? Nope. Okay, guys let's be honest to each other. Truth be told, I don't have a personal vocabulary notebook. I used to have something like that in my other foreign languages – in Italian, in Turkish – but never really again in English after secondary school. The reason for that is, I never actually had to study English vocab, because I just soaked in English words. I used dictionaries a lot and looked up words – sometimes just for fun – and remembered them. If not I just looked words up again and again and again, until I memorized them. I also took notes when I watched a movie or a favorite TV series, but I never really gathered those notes. My vocab was saved in my brain.
Studying at the ITAT, however, should change that. In SUK1 started a vocabulary notebook… and gave up on it after some pages. I just didn't get the point in writing down each and every of the tens of thousands of words with their myriads of definitions, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, ways of pronouncing them correctly and so forth.
One way I found to enjoy studying vocab is with lists on Vocabulary.com. It was especially useful to study this semester's vocab on academic language. The main advantages are that you are tested on definitions, spelling (try the spelling bee) and you can listen to the right pronunciation. I think it made studying those words a lot easier for me. Although I, admittedly, still can't come up with all the definitions of those words I know where to find the list and I can go through it again, every once in a while.
Hope you are all doing fine with you vocabulary notebooks – if existent… ups.
OMG! No seriously, good post.
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