Improve Your English Vocabulary

Improve Your English Vocabulary

1. Use self-study vocabulary books, these should include a good dictionary, and a thesaurus.
2. Expose yourself to as much English as possible by reading, watching the TV, films or the news and listening to the radio or music.
3. Read an English magazine. If you can afford it take out a subscription to a magazine or newspaper.
4. Use stick it notes and label things around your home. 
5. Create or play word games. Scrabble, Crossword Puzzles, Hangman, and Dingthings are all great ways to play with words.
6. Try to memorize whole sentences, not just individual words.
   
   
   
   
   
7. Vocabulary Learning Tip One: Read, Read, Read! Most vocabulary words are learned from context. The more words you're exposed to, the better vocabulary you will have. While you read, pay close attention to words you don't know. First, try to figure out their meanings from context. Then look the words up. Read and listen to challenging material so that you'll be exposed to many new words.
• Vocabulary Learning Tip Two: Improve your context skills. Research shows that the vast majority of words are learned from context. To improve your context skills pay close attention to how words are used. Doing a search on a word using dejanews.com (for searching newsgroups) will give you many examples of how that word is used in context. Play our Daily Context Vocabulary Quiz.