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Sylwia Clayton's avatar

Great post Katie! I'll share it with my students. Shows how important it is to actually start using new vocabulary!

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Katie's avatar

Thanks Sylwia!

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Mezcoszanka's avatar

Thank you! For now I’m not trying that much to keep improving my English, but your post so much resonated with my ongoing Polish learning, especially the fact that I have a passive vocabulary, I didn’t know that it has a name!

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Katie's avatar

Getting words from our passive vocabulary into our active vocabulary is a big part of learning a language. We have to practise using the new words until they become automatic.

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Mezcoszanka's avatar

Thank you for your insights, it’s very interesting and helpful to read you :)

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Katie's avatar

Thank you and you're welcome.

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