Could I suggest that perhaps the best way to achieve goals is to build mental models?
For example in language learning we can use the understanding of our native language to build a model of the necessary structure that we can then use as a map onto the new language. For example Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, Syntax and Morphology.
These are 4 universal characteristics (the invariant parts of language). Vocabulary graphs meaning onto pneumonics (words), POS describes the function of words within sentences, morphology describes Gender/Tense/Conjugation/Pluralization rules and syntax describes the structure, relationships, and necessary agreement between morphological entities.
It’s often more important to learn these rules first rather than focusing specifically on vocabulary since doing so makes discovering and understanding these rules explicit rather than inferential. This is something that having a model would make obvious and thus creating a learning map more methodical.
Could I suggest that perhaps the best way to achieve goals is to build mental models?
For example in language learning we can use the understanding of our native language to build a model of the necessary structure that we can then use as a map onto the new language. For example Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, Syntax and Morphology.
These are 4 universal characteristics (the invariant parts of language). Vocabulary graphs meaning onto pneumonics (words), POS describes the function of words within sentences, morphology describes Gender/Tense/Conjugation/Pluralization rules and syntax describes the structure, relationships, and necessary agreement between morphological entities.
It’s often more important to learn these rules first rather than focusing specifically on vocabulary since doing so makes discovering and understanding these rules explicit rather than inferential. This is something that having a model would make obvious and thus creating a learning map more methodical.