what is the best way to remember the new vocabs if you are starting to learn a new foreign language?

Answer 1

For study outside of class, flash cards!

Write a phrase in the new language on one side (that way you not only learn a single word, but the words that generally go with it--I am happy, not just I, am, or happy.

On the back, draw a colored picture that represents that phrase for you. Yes draw it yourself. Your brain learns better with color and imagery than it does with words alone! And if you draw it yourself, you are thinking about the new phrase while you figure out how to represent it.

Then practice. Word side up, go through all your phrases. Make three piles: (and say the answer outloud. We learn by hearing as well as thinking!)
pile A: I know this word!
pile B: I know this word, but I had to think about it a while before I got it.
pile C: I had to look.

When you've gone through all your words, pick up pile C and redistribute. This may take several times. When pile C is gone (all the words on pile A and B), work through pile B. Don't worry is some words return to C. Just work through C again, then B, then finally A. When they're all in A, go through it again to make sure they all stay there (some won't).

If you still have study time left, go through the whole process with the picture side up.

Don't bother with flashcards for words you are already very good at. (most concrete nouns..house, car, girl...don't need flashcards except in the context of a phrases. More abstract concepts--during the weekend, because he said so--will need more work)

Don't bother with low-frequency words that will appear on one test and never again. You can 'cram' it for the test and forget it. (I was once supposed to teach my beginning students the word for to listen through a stethoscope...why? they weren't medical students, they were just regular 12-year olds!)

Every so often (every month or so), go through all the cards you have ever made to make sure that the words are still in your head!

Good luck.

Answer 2

Well think about how a word from another language sounds in ur language. Does it sound familiar to ur language? Use tricks like comparing words.

Answer 3

I associate the word with a word that sounds the same in English, and imagine those two words in a scenario.

Example:

Limpiar (spanish) = to clean. "A "limp" rag cleaning a dish"
Charlar (spanish) = to talk. "Two people on fire (char) holding a conversation"