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