Reflections on different techniques of learning new foreign words. I have put myself a clear goal: in the 2 remaining months (July and August) to attain proficiency in English language. It's clear as "Good morning" that in order to master a foreign language you have to know a pretty big amount of active and passive vocabulary. I'm now C1 - C2, my vocabulary size according to my estimations is about 2500 - 3500 words. That is catastrophically few for me. My main accent now is on learning vocabulary and the proper usage of it. I read in English as much as I can (I try to keep the learning process of a foreign language into a pleasure - not transform it into a boring series of lessons) and each time when I see an unknown word - I jot it down on one page of my vocabulary-book, and on the another one - I write the translation. Sometimes i write near that word its transcription if i get messed up with the pronunciation. This technique of writing down new words on a page of my vocab-book and on the another one writing it's translated version, I've been using for 3 months. It gave me significant results but there remains a little feeling of cramming. When I understood the fact that the efficiency level of my vocab-book wasn't enough for me, I've started to make my own small research, and came upon some interesting techniques. One of them is called Mnemonics. It involves the concept of multi-sensorial learning: you write down a new word/collocation, you ascribe to this unit an audiovisual image and if it's occasion - make a phonetic association to one word in your native language. It helped me, a bit. I want to study at least 50 words per day - a bit of cramming is ok, in it's own limits. I also make a sentence with this word in order to remember it better. But there is still a lack of efficiency when it comes to transferring that word from short-term memory to the long-term one. Can you recommend me some efficient techniques/tips for overcoming this difficulty?