Phrase Cards and Dictionary Checks: Keep the Expressions You Will Actually Use
Pick 12 new expressions from the role-play and email, make two-way cards, check AI's meanings and examples against an authoritative dictionary, and schedule reviews at roughly one, three, and seven days.
Today's Goals
- Choose expressions from your own conversations and writing rather than a ready-made word list.
- Check AI's meanings and example sentences against an authoritative dictionary, catching false friends and unnatural examples.
- Make cards in both directions, recognition and production, and schedule spaced reviews.
Three days of practice have produced a lot of new Spanish: corrected forms, phrases Lin reached for and did not have, and repair phrases for C6. On Thursday 29 October, Lin turns the most useful of them into phrase cards, so they are still there on Monday 16 November in a Valencia hotel lobby. An assistant can draft a dozen cards in seconds, and that is exactly the risk. It can give a false friend the wrong meaning, or build an example sentence out of the very error Lin made two days ago. Today, every card is checked against a dictionary before it goes into the deck, and the deck is reviewed on a schedule, not crammed.
Plain-Language Walkthrough
Choose expressions from your own practice
Ready-made vocabulary lists are tempting, with titles like "100 essential Spanish words for business travel." They are also inefficient. Many words on them you already know, many you will never use, and none of them is attached to a moment when you actually needed it. The most valuable expressions for Lin are the ones that came up this week: the forms Lin got wrong, the phrases Lin reached for and did not have, and the ones the trip clearly requires.
Lin goes through the practice log and transcripts and picks twelve, as whole phrases rather than single words. A phrase like "¿Me puede ayudar?" carries its word order with it, and that word order was Lin's E4 error. A single word like "ayudar" would not help with that at all.
| # | Expression | From |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tengo muchas ganas de… | D1 (E3 correction) |
| 2 | He llegado hoy | D2 (E1 correction) |
| 3 | ¿Me puede ayudar? | D2 (E4 correction) |
| 4 | Necesito cambiar las fechas | D2 (E2 correction) |
| 5 | a nombre de… | D2 |
| 6 | ¿Me da la contraseña del wifi? | D2 |
| 7 | Perdone, ¿puede repetirlo más despacio? | D2, for C6 |
| 8 | ¿Quiere decir que…? | D2, for C6 |
| 9 | No como carne | D3 (E1 correction) |
| 10 | ¿Hay un sitio para dejar…? | D3 |
| 11 | conocer al equipo | D3 (E5 correction) |
| 12 | A phrase to agree with a colleague's suggestion | Needed for C4 lunch talk |
Item 12 is a gap rather than a correction. During lunch small talk, Lin will want to say that a colleague's suggestion sounds sensible, and does not know how.
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Interview questions
Why is choosing expressions from your own conversations more effective than learning a ready-made word list?为什么从自己的对话里挑说法，比背现成词表更有效？
Common in ChinaCommon overseasBasic#language#vocabulary🔒 Unlock this chapter to see the answer keys.
Why check the meanings an AI gives for words against a dictionary?AI 给出的释义，为什么还要再查一次词典？
Common in ChinaCommon overseasIntermediate#language#verification🔒 Unlock this chapter to see the answer keys.
Why make cards in both directions, recognition and production?为什么卡片要做识别和产出两个方向？
Common in ChinaCommon overseasBasic#language#review🔒 Unlock this chapter to see the answer keys.