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How many words can we learn a day

 

Let’s think about this first

How badly do you really want to learn the words?

Is it enough to read the book or do you want to use the words in your real life?

You could read more than 10,000words per hour if you are a competent reader. So, it means you could encounter many unknown words during the reading and learn a lot of words per day.

If you look up the unknown words, you would say that you could learn more than hundreds of words a day.

On the contrary, if you really focus on learning the new words to be able to achieve mastery level so that you use them in your real life, you should read articles to see how those words are applied in a real sentence and connect the meaning to your previous knowledge and experiences or image in your mind including finding the definition of the words. The development of language is a byproduct produced by the process of understanding the usage in a real life.

If you try to do this, that could be 5 ~ 10 words with contextualized practice, reading or processing the meaning of the words in your own way profoundly per between 30 and 45 minutes session

Why is 30minutes or 45 minutes?

This is your attention time span




To have high attention, you need to be well-rested between the studying like Pomodoro Technique.

Suppose that you study for 45 minutes’ study and take a rest for 15 minutes and learn 10 new words each study session

If you are awake for approximately 16hours and you use the time efficiently, you could learn 160 new words.

10 X 16hours = 160 words.

160words a day sounds like the same number of words that many people consider, between 100 and 200 words.

But if you learn the language for an hour a day, 5-10 words is also good enough ideally

 

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