Here, we'd like to share with you some practical advices gathered from other successful foreign language students. Best of luck!

Vocabularies

• I've always been learning new vocabularies by memorizing a sentence.
• I said them aloud and wrote them down many times. The memorization didn't bother me much when they (vocabularies) were in example sentences.
• When I was learning a new vocabulary, I learned related words and synonym also. I remember saying them aloud and writing them many times to practice.
• I concentrate in reading Spanish from my field or topics of interest to learn vocabularies.
• Strong motivation and memorization to the degree of absurdity. These 2 are what we need to learn a foreign language.
• I repeated Spanish so many times to practice. Using one tense as a base, I conjugated into negative, question, reflexive, future, past, present perfect, etc. I forced myself to learn. But more than that, I forced myself so that the words would come out instantly.
• Through memorization, you make drawers of sentence patterns. Then you practice when to pull out those drawers.
• When I can reproduce the sentences instantly after memorization, I use them to see how they react.
• What makes the difference is the number of times you use the learned Spanish in real life context.
• You must have a certain level of vocabulary to master a foreign language.
• It's a nonsense to memorize vocabularies that you won't use. 90% of textbooks are made of 3000 vocabularies. That means, if you learn 3000 vocabularies, you can understand 90% of those books.
• After reaching a certain level of vocabulary, you just need to concentrare on learning vocabularies from necessary genres.
• Increasing the number of usable vocabulary takes lots of effort to learn the pronunciation of each word.
• To learn vocabularies, you need to write them down while reading them aloud.
• If you keep on writing while reading it aloud, eyes, mouth, hands and ears will learn Spanish.
• When you learn vocabularies, it's not a bad idea to learn them in groups. Also you can place those vocabularies in a sentence or a song to give appropriate context to use them.
• If you keep on training to guess the meaning of unknown word, you could get pretty good at it. Then, all you need to do is to check it later.
• You could guesstimate unknown vocabularies from context. Just read through the passage using guesstimation. Reviewing the meaning of words with dictionary could be put off until the end.