I'm terrible at learning and remembering new vocabulary, for the most part. The only way I've been able to retain new words is by using them in a creative way. Back in my freshmen year of high school, we had 30 or so vocab words each week. Our teacher had us either write sentences for them or use them in a poem or short story. I always wrote poems. I'd look up every definition I could find of a word from a few different sources. I'd follow one definition to another one and would end up getting distracted by a different word on the same page and end up actually reading the dictionary; not like a normal book but more like those ones that you'd read as a kid where you got to choose the plot and could end up with multiple endings (I always read the Goosebumps ones).
Anyway, I realized today that I could do that with French! I'm going to randomly choose 30-40 new words to learn each week, study their every minutiae and write a short story. Right now I'm figuring it will be about one story a week. Once I really get into it, I might be able to move faster, who knows. I started today by looking up words completely at random; I found some pretty good ones too! I'm so excited :D
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