Thanks, Steve.

Andrea
On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Steve Kaufmann wrote:


> Andrea,

>

> I notice that may hastily typed original response had quite a few  

> errors in it. Sorry.

>

> I think that your Thai friend is lucky to have a friend like you.  

> Still she has to do most of the learning on her own. It is just  

> less stressful that way, and the listening is more intense.

>

> One thing that I have found is that words are learned most easily  

> from meaningful contexts. A context, one that we find interesting,  

> constitutes a stickier connection for a word or phrase. I think it  

> involves our episodic memory. The more things we can associate with  

> a word, the better. Even then, words stick in our brains based on a  

> timetable that we cannot control. Some fall into place right away,  

> and others resist all attempts to remember them.

>

> Providing unsolicited "similar words" , or even unrelated sample  

> sentences of phrases, has never worked for me. I find them a  

> distraction. I believe you have to earn your words and phrases  

> through lots of listening and reading.

>

> Good luck.

>

>

>

>

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