My current approach to learning new words (Morefon#3) #morefon2018 #moreфон2018 Day 3 Yesterday I talked about H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out Of Space". To add a few words to that topic, today I want to reveal my current method of learning new words on the example of my reading of this story. It's rather simple and consist of two steps. On the first step, when you see a new word, you copy it to the Excel file with some additional information. On the second step, when your reading of a piece of literature is over, you import these Excel notes to Anki. The Excel sheet would typicly have three columns. In the first one you copy the new word, the second column is usially for copying the sentence in which this word occured, and in the third column you copy down an explanation from the dictionary. The main purpose of this process is to effortlessly create a list of new words, ready to export to Anki. It's tiresome to do this as a single and isolated task, but doing it that way is just a little prolongation of natural process of looking up a new word. Importing the whole list to Anki is much easier and time-effective than creating every single card by hand. It is important to note that certainly NOT all of new words that you run into should be imported. It's meaningless to learn the vast majority of the nouns that way, because they come naturally. But adjectives and verbs are a lot more tricky, as their right usage is dependent on collocations and context. So, I just exclude the nouns from the final export list. That method gives you a little bonus: you can see your statistics. Lovecraft's story discussed above consists of around 12,400 words, of which 179 were copied into the Excel sheet and 107 was subsequently added to Anki.