To Learn Vocabulary We Must Forget Vocabulary

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An obstacle to acquiring vocabulary is our reluctance to accept forgetting, our vain hope to hang on to vocabulary we have tried to learn. Maybe we should just let go of new vocabulary, repeatedly catch and release, until it sticks.

0:00 The most important measure of how well we know a language is the number of words we know.
1:35 Fluent in a language with 500 words?
3:50 To do well in a langauge we need a large vocabulary.
5:03 The importance of reading different contexts when learning a language.
6:17 An example of how I learn vocabulary.

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