Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dgs_sgd 2042 days ago
Regarding vocabulary expansion, more than once I've come across the same word during reading, looked up its meaning, and then forgot about it. A quick dictionary lookup in the moment will help me understand it then and there, but the time gap until I encounter the word a second time is large, and I'll likely forget it before then.

A good approach is to use Anki to memorize words but only add words that you've actually encountered in the wild.