Today at work I’ve been making flashcards. Whenever I learn a language, I seem to have the best vocabulary growth with flashcards and steady, daily practice. I can learn 20 words a day without much effort via flashcards.
Of course, the more grammatically complex words and uses don’t really work with simple flashcards, it does help build my noun repertoire; most words people use are nouns. Even with no understanding of a language, you can point and say a noun. So I’ll use the flashcards this summer to build my list of nouns.
I’m using the Hippocrene Concise Dictionary “Farsi-English English-Farsi (Persian)” which has 8,400 total entries. At least with American books, I know they use word frequency lists–lists of the most common words used in a language, and then take the X-amount of most used words and put them in the dictionary. So in theory, and against the advice of that previous website I posted (which seemed more like an ad for barrons audio tapes than anything, though it had some good advice), this system works for me.
I’m just going to go down the list starting at A, and make a flashcard for whatever word I don’t already know. I’ll skip the grammar and “guts” of the language, and focus on only Nouns.
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