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Language Root Learning

Feb 04, 2015 Adrianus Van den End

Tags Language Learning, Language Learning Techniques, Language Root Learning, Learn To Read A Foreign Language, Read A Foreign Language, Root Learning, Word Root Learning

Do Roots Help To Read Faster? Most words of a language can be classified in word families and many word families are based on the same root. So for example 20.000 words can be from only 2000 word families which are based on just 400 word roots or stems. Dutch "begrijpelijk" (understandable) comes from the word family / verb stem "begrijp" (understand) which in turn is based on the root "grijp" (grasp). We can all grasp the meaning of this. Once you have encountered enough words within a word family you can sort of guess the root. Or vice versa, if you learn...