• Attitude toward [Words you don’t understand
  • Unconsciously skipping over words you don’t understand
  • I notice words I don’t understand, but I skip over them all.
    • It’s not memorable.
  • Notice unfamiliar words and keep them in short-term memory
    • If the word appears a few times while it’s still in your short-term memory, you’ll think, “This word comes up a lot, let’s look it up.”
  • Record words you don’t understand.
    • Record the occurrence and frequency of unfamiliar words without relying on short-term memory.
    • With paper books, there was an easy way to draw a marker.
  • Quickly look up unfamiliar words
    • Good option if you have time to spare.
    • If you don’t have enough time, you’ll be like, “I spent too much time looking things up, and I haven’t made any progress on the main text.
      • A case in which a person unfamiliar with English and the paper translates the English paper verbatim from the beginning and runs out of time before reaching the important conclusion.

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