Sweeten Up Your Vocab: 10 Fun and Effective Ways to Learn English Vocabulary

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Autos = Self
Bios = Life
Graphy=Writing

An autobiography is the author's retelling of their life. This is written in first person and the author is the main character.

Fun and Effective Ways to Learn English Vocabulary

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10. Use Pictures

Drawing what the word means helps you see the definition in your mind whenever you hear it.

Find new vocabulary words and draw what they mean.

9. Find Ways to Use “Words of the Day”

The dictionary Merriam-Webster has a “Word of the Day”

Find ways to use these words in conversation.

Every day when you’re having your morning coffee, choose two or three words to be your “Words of the Day.”

8. Start a Blog in English

Share your blog with your friends

Write with a dictionary nearby, so that every time you can’t think of the right word to use, you can look it up.

You learn a lot through writing, too.

7. Use New Words in Cowrite.net, an Online Community Writing Game

In this game, you create a story with other users

But instead of keeping these sentences to yourself, use them at cowrite.net, a fun writing game.

If you make a sentence with it, you’ll remember it better.

6. Have Fun with Word Magnets

Then you can make sentences with them and get something to munch on.

There are many different word magnet sets available to buy at stores and on Amazon, so pick the one that is the most interesting to you.

Put some vocabulary words on your refrigerator .

5. Play Text-heavy Games

Games have a lot to teach us, and they remind us that studying doesn’t have to be boring.

Text-heavy games (games with lots of text) like Inkle’s 80 Days can introduce you to new words through simple phrases. Other games like Elegy for a Dead World can actually help you feel confident enough to write your own stories and poems.

4. Play a Vocabulary Game That Helps End Hunger

The game tests your vocabulary skills by giving you a word and letting you choose its definition.

That’s the idea behind Free Rice, a free game you can play online.

3.Use FluentU to Learn Vocabulary in Real-world Contexts

There are six levels, from beginner to native.

Takes real-world videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.

New words need context for you to remember them.

2. Read, Read, Read

If these are too difficult for your English level, you can try reading comic books instead

There are even some books that are meant to teach vocabulary.

The more you read, the more you learn.

1. Join Meetup.com

You might make a few new friends that way too.

Joining a Meetup group about something that you’re interested in can help ease your fear about speaking to new people.

One of the best ways to learn real vocabulary that you would use in a conversation is by actually having conversations with other people.

How to Make the Most of Your Vocabulary Building Activities

Add information about your family. Usually, the mother's maiden name is written.
Additionally, you can add their age.

If you still can’t understand the word, look it up in a dictionary or ask somebody to explain it to you.

You should read around the word to try and figure out what it means.

Use context clues

Beyond Flashcards

Add your personal information.

Once you link the word with something bigger, it sticks better in your mind.

But to actually learn a new word, you have to see it in a sentence

Flashcards are great to remember words you already learned.

And that’s all flashcards are—random words.

Your brain has trouble remembering too many random things.