Building a Word Bank That Sticks
Keep your own store of words and phrases, and bring them back on purpose: write each one in a sentence you would actually say, test yourself from memory, and return to the ones that keep slipping. Meeting a word once is not learning it.
What a learner can do afterwards
- Record a new word inside a sentence of their own rather than as a bare translation
- Test themselves from memory instead of rereading the list
- Go back to words forgotten last time before adding new ones
1 · Read
Words you meet once tend to slip away. Keep your own store so they stick. Add a few each day from books and chats, and never store a bare translation: write each word in a sentence of your own.
Cards turn spare minutes into study. Word on one side, sense plus example on the back. Shuffle them well. Test from memory, not by rereading. Wrong cards join the pile again.
Space your practice over days. Pulling up a sense from memory makes it stick. Go back to last week's misses before new words. Sleep seals the work, so look again near bedtime.
Pin each word down fast. Link it to a funny picture in your head. Use it in talk within a day. A word used fast is a word kept.
Store each word in your own sentence, test from memory, and revisit the misses.
2 · Watch
Take it off screen
Where it sits
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.