Re: How to learn new words
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
"упоительный" and "удовлетворительный" and "достопримечательности".
If you just knew a little bit about what makes up a word, you wouldn't have any trouble understanding words like this. (Without memorizing.) Though, admittedly, I'm not quite sure what упоительный is. I wanna say like stunning or something.
Other: Magic
I really think you can do all the flash cards and gimmick programs you like and never really attain a reasonable grasp of a language. At some point it will just click in your brain and you'll start spitting out semi-coherent Russian.
You're crazy, says the disbeliever, but this is how the brain works. Memory and language are two seperate things, so while you may be able to store thousands of words in your memory, you'll never really be able to access them efficently and string them into meaningful, grammatical sentences.
Re: How to learn new words
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Originally Posted by BlackMage
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Originally Posted by kwatts59
"упоительный" and "удовлетворительный" and "достопримечательности".
If you just knew a little bit about what makes up a word, you wouldn't have any trouble understanding words like this. (Without memorizing.) Though, admittedly, I'm not quite sure what упоительный is. I wanna say like stunning or something.
Other: Magic
упоительный means enchanting, or ravishing. I heard it in a song.
удовлетворительный means satisfying. It was in a list called "the top 3500 common Russian words". I studied all 3500 words and later found out that many of the words were not very popular.
достопримечательности = sightseeing. A very easy word to learn. It appeared in this forum several times.