Vocabulary is of course super important, but what's even more important is how you learn the vocabulary. Memorizing single word translations is worse than usele

Vocabulary is of course super important, but what's even more important is how you learn the vocabulary. Memorizing single word translations is worse than useless, as words are not used in the same way in different languages. What I'm using is curated input with dialogues etc. which are constructed within a fixed set of vocabulary, so by listening to (and reading) it all you eventually get through a lot of vocabulary and after a while every new episode is easily understood: Time to shift more of the attention over to the next level (more vocabulary and longer dialogues). (As for English, I learned all my vocabulary by reading. I was reading for the purpose of reading, learning English was not the goal at all)