Cheryl from Manitoba asks about the Gold List method

Cheryl from Manitoba in Canada gives 5 great questions about the Gold List method which will certainly help people who are using the method and still have uncertainties about its application.

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Education

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• Gold
• List
• Method
• Language
• learning
• methodology
• memory
• tool
• Cheryl
• Manitoba

[templje]

Thanks for your videos. I plan to use the Gold List while deployed to Iraq. I plan to do it in 2500 word blocks. I hope I will be able to give feedback while overseas. J

[usenetposts]

I hope you will to. Keep your head low. And if the last letter should change, in that country, then keep your head even lower.

[Sanyadr]

Вы прикалываетесь, или это Ваше реальное произношение?

[BarbaricMoose]

@usenetposts No, that should be a free resource.

[siafulinux]

I personally would adapt from the "100 most common English words"; whichever applies to the language I'm attempting to study. Then I'd move onto 500 most common words and so forth.

[usenetposts]

You could then make money publishing your frequentative dictionaries as pdfs.

[usenetposts]

If you wanna be really geeky, you can go to the wikipedia for the language involved, slap a whole bunch of the articles there into a .txt file, get rid of all punctuation except spaces using find and replace, then turn the spaces into commas, upload the csv file into microsoft excel so that it's one word per cell and then do a pivot table on the frequency of the return of each word. Hey presto! You have a frequency dictionary. Most people I think would prefer the disadvantages of a dictionary...

[usenetposts]

Well, that could involve quite a lot of additional admin time. One possibility could be to take a frequentative dictionary like the one I keep recommending for Russian, in fact that is a very superior solution to the whole which is why one should always look and see if there is a frequentative dictionary.

[usenetposts]

Dictionaries are not the most interesting way of building vocab per se, but there are two times I can think of when they do have an advantage: first for languages where there aren't many courses that go past 2000. The small dictionary can give you the next 8-10,000 words. The second case if if you want to learn a new language via a better known language - the dictionary serves as a checklist and reminder also for the better known - but not native - language. In these 2 cases I do recommend them.

[usenetposts]

It just goes to show the truth of the saying "Primum non necare".

[templje]

Thank you for a quick response. I am now watching your Discourse to Lord Moggy