Vocabulary Learning Techniques III

One way to memorize new words is to group them using the environment technique. You can do this by memorizing the word for bakery. You visualize the entire bakery, so you also learn the words for baker, bread, butter, flour, oven and anything else you might find there. You picture each item in the bakery as you say the words to yourself aloud or in your head.

Another good way to learn new words is by reading bilingual books, which contain one page in the target language and the opposite page in your foreign language. This will make reading much easier, since you won't need a dictionary.

A great technique is to learn the hundred strong words of the language. These words will be different depending on the language, but the theory is that every language has a hundred strong words that cover over 50% of the words used in conversation. Learning these words will make conversation a lot easier.