I realized how much this English course does. I get a ‘grid’ I can put my vocabulary on and fill the holes with new words I learn, but the main concept is there, because I understand the small words and the grammar.
It’s easier now to build on that for more conceptual understanding.
I had an interesting epiphany on the drill. When you have a definition with three parts — like ‘in the place of,’ ‘instead of,’ ‘as a substitute’ — you need to get the concept of every part in order to get the full concept of the whole definition. If one is missing, you can’t fully grasp it. That’s so amazing.
I did not believe that I would have so many wins on learning these definitions. I am really looking forward to studying English texts.
It is like a Malakoff cake. You put the biscuits (little words) with coffee and rum aroma (drilling), and then you fill it with buttercream (the other text), and you get the full taste of the cake when reading and really understanding it.
And the cherry on the cake is that you can use some of the definitions for the German words too, because most of them are only described in terms in the German ‘Duden’ (dictionary). So this program gives you a better understanding of your own language too.