My Vocabulary Notebook

I have never been the "keeping a vocab note book" kind of student, but my opinion about them changed throughout this semester. At first my thoughts were quit rebellious. I had never been fond of the idea of piling up vocab just so I can, like a machine, hammer them into my head one by one. Pretty quickly at the beginning of this semester I learned the hard way that I really had to find a way of learning massive amounts of vocab without resenting it so much. Not just in English also in Russian my former system couldn't manage the masses anymore. Because of that, partly also due to the fact that we had to, I started keeping a handwritten vocab diary where I collected vocab and additional information important to me. 

That was already a step forward since just looking the words up, and writting all this stuff down by hand did a great deal of the trick. However I did not find the ultimate perfect system until I tried gFlash+. With the help of this useful app I managed to keep up with the gigantic vocabulary lists in both languages. Everything this app needs, to help me to study my vocab everywhere I go, is a simple Google spreadsheet. Here is what my vocabulary notebook for PC2 looks like:

Unfortunately I cannot directly listen to the links I put in the spreadsheet for pronunciation. Since I already listened to the recordings twice while creating the list and the google doc gives me the opportunity to listen to them from any computer in the world, this fact is not actually hindering me. Now, at the end of semester3, I think I have found THE way for me to learn my vocab: detailed Google spreadsheets and gFlash+.