Learn German Vocabulary

Learn German Vocabulary - Back To The Basics (Part 2)

One of the four main basic abilities you need to learn German vocabulary is the ability to read. Most of us don't realise that when we are reading a text, we read sentence by sentence and not word for word. A sentence is several words in a specific sequence. It is the whole sequence that we subconsciously register. Therefore, just knowing the keywords in a sentence is enough to comprehend what you've read.

The same format should be applied when reading German. Language students usually make the mistake of reading slowly word by word thinking that they need to understand every word of the sentence in order to comprehend the text. This results in low comprehension despite a good knowledge of German vocabulary. You'll learn German vocabulary when reading German but you should read the WHOLE sentence or clause at once. Why? Because you'll be more quickly able to distinguish the sentence structure and also its meaning.

Learn German Vocabulary