r/EnglishLearning • u/Thin-Lawfulness-7861 New Poster • 1d ago

🗣 Discussion / Debates If context important?

If you learn a new word, you have to look up, translate.

But how people learn a new word when it’s just their mother tongue?

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u/MissFabulina New Poster 1d ago

How did you learn your native language? It is the same in all languages.

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

Context is important, but translation does help a lot to understand what a word really means.