Vocabulary
A vocabulary (from the Latin vocabulum ' naming ') is used to designate a single word in a language - especially that of a foreign language if it is learned with the corresponding German word - or, more generally, an expression .
When learning a foreign language is the meaning of a word or a Vokabels - this word is in German higher German and Swiss Standard German only feminine , the Austrian High German and neuter (after the Latin origin word vocabulum , n. ) - usually by appropriate words of their own language specified , often entered in a booklet.
It is not uncommon for it to be found that different vocabulary can have a similar meaning and that different meanings can have the same expression according to the sequence of sounds or letters. A dictionary is useful for looking up these vocabulary differences and similarities .
You don't get to know a language without getting to know its vocabulary. It helps to learn vocabulary that you do not yet know in order to acquire an extensive vocabulary . The basic vocabulary of a language usually requires knowledge of around 2000 words.
Learn vocabulary
Foreign language vocabulary can be learned in different ways. Of course, it is particularly interesting to talk to others in the other language, who can show and explain both rough and subtle differences.
A number of other methods are also used, for example
- a loud repeated reading,
- keeping a vocabulary book,
- memorizing the word entries,
- querying by a second person,
- creating your own flashcard ,
- a computerized vocabulary trainer ,
- a mnemonics like the keyword method .
Knowing the meaning of expressions in a foreign language does not, however, in itself constitute mastery of a foreign language, since language works in sentences and in contexts; Sentences are put together according to the rules of the language's own grammar , contexts usually only arise from the context of the respective situation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry on the word vocabulary in Duden (online)
- ↑ VOCABEL, f.. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
- ↑ Ulrich Ammon etc. (ed.): German dictionary of variants . P. 846.