Mr. Steve/Fellow Lingq’ers

I wanted to know how you felt about learning actual Lingq's (2, 3, 4, or 5 words combined) as it would be used in an actual sentence vs. learning single words. To me, learning single words is much easier and I can quickly get my numbers up that way. However, I'm not sure if knowing a vast amount of single words would be as beneficial as learning how these words are used in a structured sentence. When listening to a conversation, I would think knowing several words in a row would be easier to recognize and understand since everything is already in order and conjugated rather than trying to piece all these single words together, conjugate them in your head, and try to figure out what was being said. Obviously, having a great vocabulary as well as knowing sentence structure are both important but if you had to choose one or the other, which would you say would help the most in acquiring a language---Learning by Linging or Learning by Vast Vocab---. I'm obviously no expert here so I was hoping quite a few would share their experience on which way worked best for them. Your thoughts, please..

Everyone learns their own way. I mostly save and learn words. Without the words, I cannot make sense of the phrases. Once I have a lot of words, I tend to increase the number of phrases that I save. I will often make one pass through a text only saving words, using QuickLingQs for example, and then make another pass saving phrases. But I save a lot more words. I consider them the essential building blocks.

I think people don't say it often enough, but many of us should make more of an effort to follow Steve's advice.

So what if you have to change you routine for three months, just do it! I'll be worth it! After a 3-6 months, make up your own mind about how you want to do it, but in the beginning try to follow the advice of those of who have done it before :)

Steve/Peter,
Thanks for the quick replies. I've spent more time watching Steve's youtube video's and scouring the message boards so far than actually hitting the lessons. I've "reset my language" four or five times so far as I wasn't sure which way I liked best. I'll follow Steve's advice as he obviously has much more knowledge of languages than I. Many thanks.