“少壮不努力，老大背单词”。词语量不只困扰中国人，也让外国学渣束手无策。有人在quora上发帖求背单词速成办法，2位语言学学士给出了精彩回答。
来自 Joonas Vakkilainen 的回答（芬兰语学士）：
My method is write and pronounce. Writing words on paper leaves a visual memory trail of the words. If you just look words, you may forget them quickly, but writing them makes you concentrate on them more efficiently. Reading words aloud gives you a phonetic memory trail. It creates an echoing sound in my head and that sound I can recall later. When you know words enough, you will understand the principles of word formation in that language. this helps you guess meanings of unfamiliar words, when you read, and create word families in your memory.
我的办法是“写+念”。把单词写在纸上能加深这个词的视觉记忆。假如只不过看看单词，你可能非常快就把它们忘了，但书写能叫你更专注。大声朗读单词能加深单词的听觉记忆。如此做在大脑里创造了一个之后也能第三想起的回声。当你的词语量足够大时，你会了解该语言的构词法。在读到不熟知的单词时，它能助你猜出词义，还能叫你记住这一系列单词。
来自 Dan Lenski 的回答：
Every day, Id try to write down 10-50 words or phrases in French which I didnt understand, or words or phrases in English which I didnt know how to render in French. Id go home and spend an hour or more looking them up in the dictionary.
我天天写10到50个法语新单词或词组，或是我不了解怎么样使用方法语翻译的英语单词词组。回家后花1个多小时在字典里查找这类单词。
Id read newspapers, comic books, textbooks, adverti百度竞价推广ents, and novels.
读新闻、漫画、课本、广告和小说。
Id talk to teachers, fellow students, strangers at the bus sTOP, store clerks, etc.
和老师、同学、车站遇见的陌生人和店员等聊天。
By the way, I rarely watched TV, listened to the radio, watched movies, or listened to music in French... though this might just be a personal thing. I often have great difficulty understanding my native language, English, in recorded form. I still find recorded audio extremely difficult to understand in French, despite the fact that I can carry on largely fluent in-person conversations with native speakers.
对了，我极少怎么看语电影电视，听法语之声或歌曲，当然这可能只不过我一个人的问题。虽然英语是我的母语，我还是常常感觉要听懂英语录音挺难的。尽管我基本上可以非常流利地和母语为法语的人对话，但还是感觉法语录音非常难懂。
