I watch movies for listening practice, these are Japanese dubs of movies I've seen before in my native language, so I have a rough gist of what's being said. I understand 70-80% of what's being said. If I encounter a word I don't know, I pause the video and write it down so I can study it later.
My reasoning for writing down all of these words is:
- I want to go from 70% understanding to 100%. I'm not good at learning through osmosis and will not remember the new words if I can't go back and study them.
- Even if I can understand the gist of a new word, it takes more work to be able to use the word myself. Expanding vocabulary is important for speaking fluency
- These words might not appear frequently in other places, or might be used primarily in spoken rather than written language. So if I don't learn them now, I might not come across them again for a while
However even if I more or less understand the meaning of a sentence, each sentence will still have multiple words I haven't encountered before. This means frequently pausing the video to write down words, which interferes with listening practice – it can take me an hour to get through ten minutes of a movie.
Is the mentality that "I need to learn specifically this list of words" overthinking things, and leading to less efficient study?
by OkIdeal9852