5 STEPS FOR A BETTER VOCABULARY
If you want to be a great communicator, then you need to have a great vocabulary, as a translator. Then, you need as much vocabulary as you can get in order to express yourself in a better way. But, the question is how to maintain that much of vocabulary without forgetting some!
First: Read , read as much as you can, the more you read the more words you will encounter. anything you hear might contain a new or bizarre word of some kind. Try to keep yourself in contact with your second language and try to know, hear and use new things enriched with information and vocabulary you don't know.
Second: Keep yourself curious; try to find out what does any word you encounter or hear mean by looking at the context around it and if you found it unrecognizable then you may try to look it up in the dictionary. Try to keep in your mind seeking it in the context that fits the most. For maybe you will let yourself think of the better usage and thus you will never forget it.
Third: Write down; try to keep a a notebook for all the words you hear, review it every day, and you will see how much you can remember by then.
Fourth: Expand; Learn the roots of words. See how many words you can think of that contain the same root — for example, “predict,” and “verdict,” “dictionary,” and “dictate,” and do exchange words. Then you will have to see how many words you can replace without changing the meaning. Try regularly to use a thesaurus. and find synonyms for words you use often
Fifth: Words are fun, so Play word games like Scrabble, Hangman and Mad Libs and do crosswords and other word puzzles to train your mind for new words.
Written by
Aseel K. Mahmood
