Learn to write vocabulary - our tips

Spelling mistakes in the vocabulary test? That's annoying: You can remember the vocabulary, but you don't know exactly anymore How to write them Or where the accent is set precisely. It is a real challenge to remember the exact spelling of some words: immediately, nauseous, cueillir, mœurs, izquierda, diecisiete,... How do you remember the correct spelling now? The good news: You don't have to copy the vocabulary a hundred times into the vocabulary book.

Tips for spelling your vocabulary correctly

1. Repetition is your best friend

This tip is old hat, but it shouldn't go unmentioned here: Whether the vocabulary is “saved” successfully depends on how often it is repeated. In other words: Repeating helps you remember! It is therefore important to keep up with vocabulary training regularly.

If you have difficult vocabulary, it is worth a extra pile of index cards or in your Vocabulary app eine separate list so that you can repeat them specifically.

2. Time for stories

Quite mean: You often pronounce completely different letter sequences the same way, which can lead to memory errors, for example in English “ee” and “ea” as in the words “week” and “weak” (weak).

1. As a first step, collect vocabulary that similar patterns feature. As an example: English words with “ee”: week, steep, green, cheese, feel, meet, street,... and words with “ea”: team, eat, leaf, sea, cream, weak,...
2. Think to yourself Phrases with this vocabulary collection Off - it's allowed to be silly! • Every week the cheese feels green on the street. • Our weak team eats a cream made of a leaf.
3. visualize your stories. By imagining the sentences figuratively, you make sure that your head associations produces and is able to remember the vocabulary better. It is even better if you draw a picture of your sentence or even a collage Do and write the vocabulary next to it.

3. Say the words “German”

Another valuable tip comes from learning therapist Helke Voss-Becher. Speak the vocabulary while studying Syllable by syllable Off as if it were a German word:

• beautiful: be - a - u - ti -ful
• Colour: ko - lo -ur
• Government: go - ver - n - ment

In addition, it can help yourself Memorize prefixes and suffixes, because they are always spelled the same way:

• “-ize” in “realize” (real + ize), “recognize” (re + cogn + ize).
• “-ion” or “-ation”, as in “information” (in + form + ation) or “vaccination” (vaccin + ation).

What's left as a root word is usually short, so you don't have to remember much anymore. You should also basic rules Remember the language, such as that there are no umlauts (ä, ü, ö) and no sharp s (ß) in English.

Type or write off? Many think that they can only learn vocabulary correctly if they be written off into the notebook. If you like to learn with a vocabulary app, you don't have to worry that you won't learn the spelling correctly as a result. Rather, it is important that the app various writing exercises offers, you effective learning methods Use and you repeat regularly. We've dedicated an entire blog post to this topic which you can read here.

4. Remember accents correctly with gestures

In French, Spanish and Italian, in addition to spelling, you also have to the accents Remember. The accents indicate that a syllable is particularly emphasized or pronounced differently, and that is exactly what you should do with your query: Pronounce the stressed syllable with an accent very clearly! In addition, you can also use a finger or hand movement Make it that visualizes the accent. For example, it could look like this:

• Cómo (span.: how): Emphasize the ó with a movement of the hand upwards to the right.
• Niña (Spanish: girl): Emphasize the ñ and draw a wave in the air.
• Città (Italian: city): Emphasize the à with a movement of the hand from down to the right.

Learning with movement: Anyone who makes an appropriate gesture into a vocabulary memorize it better. If you want to learn more about this learning method, you should this blog post Read through.

Finally write vocabulary correctly

As you can see, it's basically always about use many senses And with something more imagination to learn. This way of learning does not only more fun, but is also a lot more effectivethan learning from the book. Finally, a (not entirely serious) tip on how to make spelling even easier:

Writing is easy. You just have to omit the wrong words.

Mark Twain

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