Does anyone know of any websites out there, or information in general, that can tell me diffrent ways of studing? I am LD and am taking a foreign language, I study, study, study but I can’t seem to retain the information. Any help would be great.
Does anyone know of any websites out there, or information in general, that can tell me diffrent ways of studing? I am LD and am taking a foreign language, I study, study, study but I can’t seem to retain the information. Any help would be great.
Read older posts here — lots of advice about study methods here and there. Use the search option with various key words like study skills, study methods, etc.
For a language, study *out loud*. And not mumbling or whispering or slurring either, at a mimimum of conversation volume.
Say every new vocabulary word and its English equivalent loud and clear, at least three times over. Recite your conjugations out loud over and over, five times or more.
Read your stories out loud to yourself. After each sentence, stop and figure out what it means. Then go back and read the story again.
Do spaced practice — recite that vocabulary and those conjugations for ten or fifteen minutes in the morning, ten or fifteen minutes before supper, and ten or fifteen minutes at bedtime.
If you have tapes for the course, listen to them over and over and answer the questions or repeat the vocabulary out loud.
I often hear people say they study and study for hours. Unfortunately, what they are often doing is staring silently at a page and reciting internally a mantra of how they can’t do this, it’s too hard, it’s stupid, etc. This is self-defeating.
Instead of staring and saying negative things, spend less time but spend it DOING the subject. Speaking the foreign language, writing and solving the math problems, writing the English story, and so on.