Name: 10 Tips To Build Your Vocabulary | Ways To Learn More English Words
Uploaded: 2017-08-07T16:33:55.000Z
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The superlative

Hello! I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! What's the
best way to learn new English vocabulary?

The imperative

Ahh the million dollar question! If only I
could give the ultimate answer to that question.

It's a question that I get
asked daily - literally! There is no single

best way. There is no quick solution, but
I do have 10 tips or recommendations in

this lesson that will help you to
improve your English vocabulary. So you

need to find the best way for you and to
do that you need to take a few moments

to think about YOU. Think about your
interests. Do you like reading? The

movies? Watching the news? How do you
like to learn? Do you like to learn

inside or outside, in a group or alone?
What type of learner are you? How do you

best take in information? And what's your
schedule like? When can you study?

On the train or with your kids? Use this
information to find the opportunities to

learn and enjoy English. The truth is
that to successfully learn new

vocabulary, you need to create really
good study habits. You need to keep it

interesting and you need to make sure
that you're having fun! It's something

that you need to be doing every day so
you need to find a way to involve things

that you love to do. Me? I get really
bored reading grammar books and

listening to words through dictionaries.
I'm much more likely to stay motivated

if I'm eating or drinking so I like to
study around meals. Hey, you may laugh but

it works for me! Consistency is key when
you're learning new words.

You can't just learn them once and magically
they're kept inside your head forever.

You need to hear them again and again.
Understand how they're used in different

context or how they're conjugated or used
in different, in word families. You need to

use them yourself. The truth is that we
all learn differently. So in this video

I'm going to talk about 10 different
tools and techniques that you can use to

improve your vocabulary. You might not
like all of them

but you will definitely enjoy some of
them and hopefully you can make them a

part of your daily or your weekly
routine. And if you've got any of your

own suggestions about ways to learn
vocabulary, then add them to the comments

below! Share the love with everyone,
people! So, the first suggestion or the

first tip is get better at studying new
words. Keep a vocabulary journal. Don't

roll your eyes at me, you can do this in
lots of different ways. If you think it's

dorky to carry around a notebook,
then find a way that works for you.

There are lots of apps that can help you to do
this - apps on your smartphone. And it's

just as easy to make notes there. Your
phone is great because it's always with

you but if you prefer to keep a notebook
that's just as good. So neat ways of

doing this are creating lists or by
creating vocabulary maps. However, you do it

you need to keep updating it and you
need to keep building on this list

and don't just write the word down. Go deeper! If it's a noun, learn whether it's

countable or uncountable. Learn the
prefixes and suffixes so that you can

build on those words. Learn synonyms for
those words. You know, if you said "I felt

angry", there are so many other options.
Annoyed, irritated, furious, frustrated, or

cranky. Learn if any of these words are used in phrasal verbs or idioms.

Number two. When you do learn new words, don't just

learn them on their own. Learn them with
the words that they are often used with.

These are called collocations. Two or
more English words that are often said

together or used together. They sound
right because native speakers often use

them together. For example, you throw or
have or plan a party. You don't make a party.

Or instead of memorising the word,
apply, learn the phrase "apply for a job"

or "apply for a citizenship" or "apply for a
visa". You can learn hundreds of new

individual words but you'll be
frustrated if you can't put them

together in a sentence that sounds
correct and natural. When you learn words

in groups, you're learning the words with
the verb, the nouns, the prepositions that

they are commonly used with so you'll
sound much more natural when you speak.

Three. Learn new vocabulary through
stories. Stories are full of new words,

phrases and interesting expressions that
show you how words come together in a

really entertaining way. Just like the
collocation method, you are learning new

vocabulary in context. You're not only
learning what words to use but you're

learning how to use them. An important
note to remember is that it's important

to challenge yourself but not feel
completely overwhelmed and confused.

Read stories that are fun, that are enjoyable
and that help you to feel confident with

English. Start with children's books if
you need to! "Emma are you serious? Start

with children's books?" Yes I'm serious!
There are lots of great children's books

out there that are interesting, they're
funny, they're full of adventure.

Start with children's books and when
you're reading them and it becomes too

easy, you can try something a bit more
challenging. In the description below

I've linked to some great books that you
can get started with. In this wonderful

day and age that we live in, you can also
find audiobooks for almost any book that

you can imagine and when you're learning
English, hearing how the words are

pronounced is so important because
English is not phonetic. In English, words

are often not pronounced the way that
you think they are, so listening and

reading at the same time is even better!
I use Audible to download my audiobooks

and listen to them while I'm jogging,
while I'm travelling, while I'm drifting

off to sleep. And I've listed some really
great books in the description box below.

Plus, there's a link down there to try
your first audio book for free and I

really recommend it. Make sure you choose
stories and topics that you love and

that you're interested in. On that note,
TED Talks are also really great for this

because there's TED Talks on almost
every topic imaginable and you can also

follow the transcript as the speaker is
speaking. I'll link you to some of my

favourite TED Talks in the description
below too.

Another great tip is to learn new
vocabulary through songs. If you love

listening to music, there is no doubt
that learning new vocabulary through

songs will help you to remember them. You
need to find songs where the words are

not sung too fast so that you can hear
each word and how it's pronounced.

It's more effective if you can download the
lyrics and read them as you're listening.

There are so many more benefits to
learning vocabulary through songs! They get stuck

in your head - if they're good - so you'll
be singing them and practising them so

often you won't even feel like you're
doing it - in the shower, while you're

exercising, while you're driving to work.

Songs also use colloquial language or slang
language that's really common in English.

You'll also hear how words are
contracted and reduced and it's going to

improve your speaking skills too. If
you're singing out loud you'll be

improving aspects of your pronunciation.
And the rhythm of music helps you to

memorise new vocabulary. I'll also link
down there to some great websites where

you can get lyrics for English songs and
also, if you've got any suggestions about

great English music that you like to
listen to, make sure you add it to the comments.

The next tip. Get better at using
online dictionaries. Online dictionaries

offer so many ways to practise and learn
new English vocabulary. Let's look at the

word, produce, as an example. When I look
up this word in an online dictionary,

I can read the definition, I can read and
sometimes listen to the different verb forms,

producers, produced, producing. I can
read lots of example sentences that