Unit 5 Vocabulary Answers

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[mention]Lisa[/mention] I've moved this to the Spanish forum for greater visibility of Spanish learners. I'm not aware of any, but hopefully someone can help you here. I can recommend getting a duolingo schools account, that will let you see what they teach each unit and also review. Having a schools account however will prevent you from getting new updates to the units straight away until they have been tested.

Thanks for the links & the timely response. However none of the links are exactly what I'm looking for. What I really want is the duolingo spanish vocabulary for english speakers by section and unit. I'm developing my own set of tools to reinforce & review the material in C# & SQL Server.

It was quite a lot of work, but I created the lists by myself while advancing through my own courses. That could be an option. This has the added benefit of being able to also save a lot of information about the words, for example, you can save the sample sentences and link them to the individual words.

I created a script that add downloads buttons the vocabulary sites
I find it convenient to have them as data so I can print them and learn page by page or use them to create learn cards with additional information. That is easier if you can access them all at once.

A dictionary won't help me where I'm at in my learn path. Yo never know what people need the Duolingo specific words for. In my case I built a database for a vocabulary trainer. I don't like that you can't see in their App which words belong to which section.

My point in posting it in this thread is that it comes up third in google when you search for Duolingo vocabular list. Someone else built such a script years ago but it is discontinued for a while. That's why I coded a new one. My post may not be fully relevant to the previous conversation but other people like me will find this thread.

Once again, one could argue that a script could easily keep the list updated, but once again, I would say how dl also likes to change their system internals making any user scripts useless: one just needs to do a search on this duome forum regarding this topic.

It all depends on your own preferred way of learning. For my part I see it as @bubblehead(function(script) script.previousElementSibling.href = script.dataset.baseurl + 'memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=' + encodeURIComponent(script.dataset.username); script.remove();)(document.currentScript);. I like to have a list of words and a set of pattern sentences ordered by skills. I realize that Duolingo changes things at any time without notice so my approach is to dash through a course the quickest possible to make a snapshot and move that data to a stable spaced repetition software of my choice. While I appreciate the contents of Duolingo courses I find their user interface useless and it gets only worse. Of course it is in Duolingo's interest to keep you spell-bound to their application so they remove step by step any API that allows exporting the course data in an automated way.

Firstly, from the point of view of including the section, unit or whatever organizational information may be currently available. Given how dl loves to change everything at a moment's notice, that effort seems truly futile.

I'd say that we can all agree that learning a language is way more that just learning vocabulary. Learning vocabulary comes from actual studying, so it's a consequence, a result, thus, not the main objective. I can just imagine the rightly pointed out observations that @eI000yo would have made regarding this topic

If your goal is to share the vocabulary list with a broader community I'd say yes, you are right. If your goal is to make a list for yourself then it does make sense to structure the vocabulary thematically, for example based on the old "skills". The language itself does not changes so rapidly as Duolingo methodology does so once you have your private copy of a course you can continue learning independently of the the green chicken.

It depends on your individual talent as well as the language itself.
I does take me many, many repetions to learn Korean or Chinese words. I can't rely on the Duolingo app to provide me with sufficient practice in the way that I feel is right for me hence I find my own vocabulary lists indispensable.

I do create my lists myself because the the process of making such a list already helps the learning process - just as you write. Yet it is convenient to have a possibility to create a base structure automatically and complement it with additional information that one deems useful / necessary.

From my own experience once you master the basics of grammar what you need for succesful communication is vocabulary - especially if your target language has no relation to anything you know so you can't rely on guessing things. It is the most tedious and boring task but there is no workaround so I do believe that vocabulary lists are a key to success. It is a matter of ordering the words to be learned such that you can acquire them faster and retain longer - this is where grouping words thematically helps in my opinion.

Grouping by theme does make sense, but then it's up to one's own criteria to do that. Indeed, I did that during my duolingo course. You may agree that this is definitely different from using an arbitrary "section/unit number" that doesn't really provide any useful information.

If sequence is what is desired, then another grouping option would be by period of time, that is, period 1, I learned all these words; period 2, etc. I used to register the date in my vocabulary file.

Yes, I know, I'm currently with several really unrelated languages, like Arabic, Korean, etc, but once again, we are both agreeing: one should do the work, not just copy an abstract and irrelevant structure from somewhere/someone

My point from the very beginning was that a basic word, translation, grammar value, plus some "arbitrary categorization scheme provided by a company" list, seems really irrelevant and not that useful in the long run.

From a memorization/learning point of view, context and association are fundamental, and will also help to make things less tedious and boring. So, rather than just repeating words from a list, it would be better to review/study sentences that contain the words to be learned. As soon as one is able, one should start reading basic children books, listening to children songs or audiobooks. That will provide a context for the words.

The vocabulary curriculum accessible from this Google folder was originally created by two STAR trainers from the Adult Learning Resource Center, Arlington Heights, IL, in 2009-2010. With their permission, the units and lessons were adapted by Melissa Lupinek and Vicki Ostrom, Central MN ABE (Cambridge), in 2012. The original units covered 10 Tier 2 words. The adapted lessons cover only 5 Tier 2 words, a more reasonable number for students to learn deeply.

As a way to support instructors who are teaching academic (Tier 2) vocabulary to adult learners, complete vocabulary units have been developed by Illinois STAR training participants and edited by the ALRC staff. Each unit covers ten academic words and includes the following components:

After this introduction to the unit vocabulary, students will know howto use social studies terminology correctly, including cash crop;Centralism; Federalism; empresario; nationalism; and The Old 300. Vocabulary includes terms, key people, and events of theTexas Revolution.

Lack of understanding of basic vocabulary is one of the most commonobstacles to understanding new content that we see in the classroom.This applies for all students but is especially important for studentswith various learning needs. This activity is meant to be anintroduction activity to the vocabulary words students will seethroughout the Mexican National Unit. When students have an opportunityto make their own connections there is a higher chance that they willremember the meaning of the word.