Let's explore two English language learners. One is familiar with roughly 500 words and knows how they fit into sentences. The other has some grammar issues but knows roughly 1,000 words.

Who is better at communicating and understanding English?

It is obviously the one with a thousand words of knowledge.

According to certain research, students must be familiar with at least 95% of the terms in a written piece in order to comprehend it completely. This implies that you may not fully comprehend a 100-word document if there are just five or more unfamiliar terms in it!

We'll give you some tips for expanding your vocabulary in today's session. "Vocabulary" can refer to a single word, two words, like phrasal verbs, or a large number of words combined, like an expression.

Two crucial factors

When attempting to acquire new vocabulary, there are two key considerations.

Start by relating new terms to a scenario or a story. Compared to learning words from lists, this makes vocabulary retention easier.

Second, don't be passive; be active. Make use of the new vocabulary.

Here are a few methods for doing that:

• When a new word or expression appears in a story, repeat the sentence and consider the context in which the new word or expression is used. Write down three or five more sentences using the new jargon, and then mentally repeat them.
• Write a short tale using a few new words you wish to remember. You will mentally go over the new words each time you recount the event.
• Try to explain the new word as though you were a teacher. This is an excellent method of assessing your vocabulary comprehension and usage skills. Additionally, you can act as a teacher by explaining the new language to your study partner.

More Learning Tips

• It is preferable to memorize only a few terms from a collection of related objects rather than the entire set. For example, if you try to learn the names of 12 different birds, you will undoubtedly confuse which name matches with which species. However, if you only learn the names of two or three birds and then add a few more later, you will remember them better.
• Discover how a word can be employed in several parts of speech, including noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. Here are four different ways to utilize the word "hope."

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Make sure you understand which finishes, or suffixes, are appropriate for specific portions of speech. For instance, the suffixes -ion and -ness form nouns, but the suffixes -ous, -ic, -ful, and -less form adjectives.

• One of the most difficult things for English language learners to remember is prepositions. For instance, we say "happy with" and "amused by." However, we can't say "happy by." Therefore, rather than learning two distinct words, you should commit the word and its preposition to memory as a single entity.
• It's common for music to help people remember words or phrases. Play a song and join in. However, be sure that you can also recall the new words without the music. You don't want to sing each time you're trying to recall something, after all!
• Learn the vocabulary's tone. Tone refers to the emotion that a word evokes. Formal or informal, good or negative, can be the tone. The word "idiotic," for instance, denotes "very stupid." It can be used as an insult and has a strong negative connotation. Additionally, "Howdy" is a pretty casual way to say "Hello." Learning tone on your own is challenging. Asking native speakers about a word's tone is the greatest method to learn it.
• Numerous apps are available to aid in vocabulary learning. They employ a learning strategy known as spaced repetition. An app might, for instance, display a new term to you seven times in a single day when it is first introduced to you, but just once a week once you have a better understanding of it.
• Above all, keep in mind to be active rather than passive. Use fresh terms and force yourself to think. Additionally, you'll notice that your vocabulary is expanding daily!