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Did you learn words in your native language by deliberately memorizing them?
by gshdg 7y ago
Did you learn words in your native language by deliberately memorizing them?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoSure. I remember adding words to my kids' vocabulary by repeating them and using them in context.
- muzani 7y agoI didn't have to repeat any words for my kids - they'd figure out words like Gaurus and spoiler, sometimes even faster than their parents. Kids pick up language differently though. Look at feral kids - the ones who have never picked up a language as a child often don't pick any languages up even later in life.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoWhile my niece uses flash cards with her daughter as a game. She's not yet 2 and has 100 words already. You can leave it all to chance, do it the same way the good ol parents did, it was good enough for me! Or you can plan how you raise your child. Not a helicopter parent. Young Becky is as independent and happy as any other toddler.
- JCharante 7y agoYes, in middle school we had weekly tests where we got graded on our recollection of that week's vocabulary.
- gshdg 7y agoWow, that sounds excruciating.
- randomchars 7y agoThis is quite frequent in countries of the ex-soviet block. Most of the language classes we had were about rote memorization and recall of words without context.