Excellent way to improve vocabulary

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	• Mastering New Testament Greek Vocabulary Through Semantic Domains Mark Wilson, Jason Oden Kregel Academic & Professional, 2003 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Excellent way to improve vocabulary

This book organizes words according to their semantic domains and thus allows you to build competence by learning substantially all the terms associated with a particular category of words. I find it much easier to learn words in small groups that encompass a particular category because learning in this kind of context lets you see the similarity and contrasts between terms and genders. For example, learning the terms that describe people was helpful in that I could recognize those terms in a comprehensive way when reading materials (e.g, the words for man, old man, young man, woman, old woman, child, etc). The approach that works best for me it to select a particular category to review one day. The next day, I review that category again and add another category to review. Keep reviewing the categories until all the words in that category come readily to mind. The amount of time needed to review a category becomes less and less each day as your familiarity increases. There is no need or benefit to review the categories in the order presented in the book. I found that concentrating on frequency is counterproductive because learning vocabulary by semantic domains helps you develop a more intuitive sense for vocabulary which helps you to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words when reading texts. The same can be said of learning by cognate groups but I find it more satisfying to learn the terms by semantic groups because it gives me a better sense of the progress I have made towards learning the basic vocabulary.

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Mark Wilson introduces Greek students to a method widely used today in general language learning?semantic domains, or categories.