Your study speed is entirely dependent on
the size of your vocabulary.
A student with a small vocabulary, could experience the following if he or she, for example, studied the subject of economics, written in the English language. In the first sentence, they find there are two words that are not understood. If you do not define these two words immediately, then you will not get what the author of the book wants to say to you through the text. So grab your dictionary and follow the rule: "Never bypass a word, that you do not understand."
All the definitions in the first sentence are now clarified. However do also beware of the small words such as: here, from, at, in, etc. and clear them up too as necessary.
Now go back to the text and read the sentence again. Ah - ha, now I understand what the author means.
You continue to clear up words, the entire page down, one or more words in each sentence and a few hours later, the first chapter (four pages long) is finished. Oh dear - it took some time.
Your experience then has been: "It was not very much economics that I got studied, but at least I understood everything I read. But there was also something else, that was very important - you expanded your vocabulary and that is quite significant.
Now we move on to chapter two. Here you will find, that the words that you defined previously appear again in chapter two, so there are not as many new words, that need to be defined this time. The number of words, that you do not understand, has decreased now to a few per page. This chapter is a total of six pages, but it only took about one hour and you understood everything again, that the author explained in the text. You now feel that you had been studying the subject of economics.
But do not forget - that once again you have expanded and improved your vocabulary. Perhaps you also discovered, that the larger a vocabulary you have, the longer it takes before you come across a word, you do not understand. Ah ha - my study speed is obviously completely dependent on the size of my vocabulary.
Perhaps you are thinking: “But when I increase my English vocabulary, while I am studying economics, so I find, that it becomes easier to study economics. I wonder if my extended vocabulary will also make it easier for me to study a different subject?”
Yes - and as a bright reader, which I'm sure you are, then you probably already know the answer: The larger a vocabulary you have, the easier it is for you to study any subject, that you later take up.
See - here we discovered something very central in studying: Your willingness and ability to expand your vocabulary, is the main subject, that you possibly can concern yourself with, when you study. Your vocabulary is the prerequisite, to your ability to study - and that goes for any topic. And your willingness and ability to expand your vocabulary, when you encounter words that you do not understand, is essential to understanding what it is the author of the text writes.
So you could make the following decision with yourself. "For the future I will make sure to extend my vocabulary whenever necessary. It is necessary every time I come across a word, that I do not understand, to clear them up. I will continue expanding my vocabulary when I study. And it is more important to me, than anything else, and my personal path to understanding, not only of the subject I am studying right now, but also of any other issue that I wish to study in the future".
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All the definitions in the first sentence are now clarified. However do also beware of the small words such as: here, from, at, in, etc. and clear them up too as necessary.
Now go back to the text and read the sentence again. Ah - ha, now I understand what the author means.
You continue to clear up words, the entire page down, one or more words in each sentence and a few hours later, the first chapter (four pages long) is finished. Oh dear - it took some time.
Your experience then has been: "It was not very much economics that I got studied, but at least I understood everything I read. But there was also something else, that was very important - you expanded your vocabulary and that is quite significant.
Now we move on to chapter two. Here you will find, that the words that you defined previously appear again in chapter two, so there are not as many new words, that need to be defined this time. The number of words, that you do not understand, has decreased now to a few per page. This chapter is a total of six pages, but it only took about one hour and you understood everything again, that the author explained in the text. You now feel that you had been studying the subject of economics.
But do not forget - that once again you have expanded and improved your vocabulary. Perhaps you also discovered, that the larger a vocabulary you have, the longer it takes before you come across a word, you do not understand. Ah ha - my study speed is obviously completely dependent on the size of my vocabulary.
Perhaps you are thinking: “But when I increase my English vocabulary, while I am studying economics, so I find, that it becomes easier to study economics. I wonder if my extended vocabulary will also make it easier for me to study a different subject?”
Yes - and as a bright reader, which I'm sure you are, then you probably already know the answer: The larger a vocabulary you have, the easier it is for you to study any subject, that you later take up.
See - here we discovered something very central in studying: Your willingness and ability to expand your vocabulary, is the main subject, that you possibly can concern yourself with, when you study. Your vocabulary is the prerequisite, to your ability to study - and that goes for any topic. And your willingness and ability to expand your vocabulary, when you encounter words that you do not understand, is essential to understanding what it is the author of the text writes.
So you could make the following decision with yourself. "For the future I will make sure to extend my vocabulary whenever necessary. It is necessary every time I come across a word, that I do not understand, to clear them up. I will continue expanding my vocabulary when I study. And it is more important to me, than anything else, and my personal path to understanding, not only of the subject I am studying right now, but also of any other issue that I wish to study in the future".
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