most people are building vocabulary wrong. here's what i mean.
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you read a word. you highlight it. maybe you even google its meaning.
two days later? gone.
not because you're bad at learning. because the method is broken. there are a few specific mistakes that silently kill retention, and almost everyone makes them without realizing it.
i wrote about the biggest ones here - and how to fix them: wordflippin.ai/blog/common-mistakes-to-avoid-when-learning-new-words
curious if anyone else has run into this. what's your current vocab learning process?
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True. The most effective way to learn a language (or expand your vocabulary) is through context. When you stumble upon an unfamiliar word in a text, look it up, then actively use it in conversations or writing a few times, it becomes part of your natural vocabulary. If you just check it once, and then don't use or see the word, it signals to your brain it isn't worth retaining, so it simply discards it.
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@alina_petrova3 Yeah. Very true