- Attitude toward [Words you don’t understand
- Unconsciously skipping over words you don’t understand
- Its presence does not come up in our consciousness.
- 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.
- If it’s Scrapbox, you can bracketing it.
- 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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