From the article: Increasing Your Spanish Vocabulary
Even as you're learning Spanish grammar, you can expand your communications skills by adding to your vocabulary. What has worked for you? Share Your Advice
Keep a little Spanish book
- Write words down you don't know and ask people who speak Spanish what they mean. Also, don't go by what the dictionaries say all of the time. Some of the time they are not correct or you got to pick out the right word.
- —Guest elarrozconfrijoles
Learning vocabulary
- Spanish soap operas! Remembering that it takes at least 13 times to use the word to remember....
- —caballomorado
Electronic Flashcards
- I have been studying Spanish for a long time (about six years now), and am currently in a Spanish MA program. Over time, I have found that flashcard study has been useful for learning vocabulary in a focused, systematic way. I also learn through reading. While of course everyone's experience is different, I seem to recall words that I want to say in Spanish better when I have studied them as flashcards. Additionally, after spending much time with paper flashcards, I finally discovered electronic ones last year. They are great and available free on www.flashcardexchange.com and perhaps other websites as well.
- —Guest Jonathan
