A 5 Day Rote Memory System

[Kenneth Brostrom]

May I add a simple device suggested to me years ago by one of my teachers.
When using a dictionary, place a small dot by the word in pencil so you
will have a record of the number of times you have looked that particular
word up.  When you encounter three or four dots beside a word,
well--Georges makes the point below.

Ken Brostrom

>>> [I'm currently, on and off, going through a Russian
>>> translation of The Hobbit that I came across online.
>>> Sure, it's not authentic Russian literature, but I know
>>> the Hobbit story well enough to be able to figure out
>>> certain things that otherwise would have me stumped)
>>I find that's a really good short cut. I used to do it quite often with
>>Welsh and I'm sure it got me well on the way to reading real Welsh
>>literature.
>>Daf
>
>Reading with a dictionnary is a good way to learn a language. When you
>forget a word, you are obliged to look in the dictionnary twice, or three
>time, or more for the same word, and you are so upset that you don't forget
>your words any more! But I prefer reading  in the original language books
>I have read before in their translation. That's the way I learned English,
>with Peter Cheney and James Hadley Chase. Of course, better to have a
>dictionnary with phonetics indicated.
>Georges

Kenneth Brostrom
Assoc. Prof. of Russian
Dept. of German and Slavic Studies
Wayne State University, Detroit 48202
Telephone: (313) 577-6238
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E-mail: k_brostrom at wayne.edu