How to improve your vocabulary?
- Read, read, read and listen.
- Track your vocabulary learning progress with your phone, or book.
- Have a word of the day
- Have a vocabulary list on the wall(at home or office)
- Play games
- Have a dictionary and thesaurus around you
- Practice
- Start a blog
- Translate words into your own language
- Learn about English (and American) culture
- Try vocabulary quizzes
- Use English news broadcast and other resource to hear new words in context
- Correspond with an English pen friend
- Write down new words
- Use pictures
- Learn with other people
- Don’t be scared
- Associate a new word you learn with people and events
- Use the new words in other sentences
- Learn the roots of words
- Study word formation charts
- Repeat the word at least 7 times to remember it
- Create vocabulary themes
- Know the parts of words
- Learn new vocabulary through English stories, songs and films
- Create antonym and synonym word lists
- Learn prefixes and suffixes
- Use flash cards
- Give yourself weekly words to use
- Use dictionary websites
- Write an explanation of the word in English
- When watching English videos, turn on subtitles
- Enjoy yourself with the words you learn
- Learn the vocabulary you need to study
- Use visual dictionaries
- Make your own vocabulary tests
- Find a writing partner
- Learn collocations
- Use word clouds
- Avoid making random word lists
- Use the vocabulary you learn in your own way
- Assign different colors to different words
- Learn groups of words
- Describe the world around you
- Create special vocabulary lists
- Listen the English music and follow the lyrics
- Apply the new words you have learned in daily conversations
- Set a goal of finding and remembering new words everyday