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Through memorization, you make drawers of sentence patterns. Then you practice when to pull out those drawers.
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I repeated Spanish so many times to practice. Using one tense as a base, I conjugated into negative, question, reflexive, future, past, present perfect, etc. I forced myself to learn. But more than that, I forced myself so that the words would come out instantly.
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Strong motivation and memorization to the degree of absurdity. These 2 are what we need to learn a foreign language.
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When I was learning a new vocabulary, I learned related words and synonym also. I remember saying them aloud and writing them many times to practice.

I said them aloud and wrote them down many times. The memorization didn't bother me much when they (vocabularies) were in example sentences.
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I've always been learning new vocabularies by memorizing a sentence.
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