Tips for languages students Revision techniques

Here are some practical ways to build your language skills and make your learning more effective.

• Regular practice will make you more fluent and confident as last minute cramming is difficult.
• Little and often produces good results as intensive, focused revision will help you to absorb new language structures.
• Arrange vocabulary alphabetically, under topics or according to word families.
• Learn the appropriate article at the same time as the new word (for example le/la/les, der/die/das).
• Write notes and language structures without looking at your module material. You'll be pleasantly surprised by what you can remember. Then work on the things you didn't get right.
• Do any exercises you haven't done before.
• Find someone to talk to in the language.
• Use the language to summarise a unit, saying what you have learnt about the theme.