A Powerful Way to Learn New Vocabulary
STOP wasting your time trying to memorise long lists of English words and phrases.
Do you repeat lists of vocabulary many times, hoping to memorise each word or phrase and their translations?
Unfortunately, research shows that 80% of vocabulary you learn this way is forgotten in less than a year.
Think about it, that’s a lot of time and effort wasted.
Do you repeat lists of vocabulary many times, hoping to memorise each word or phrase and their translations?
Unfortunately, research shows that 80% of vocabulary you learn this way is forgotten in less than a year.
Think about it, that’s a lot of time and effort wasted.
Another problem with this learning method, it’s boring and it lowers motivation.
As a student, you must be careful, killing your motivation is the worst thing you can do.
Learning English is a long journey. It requires high levels of motivation that you need to keep for many years.
Therefore, using boring vocabulary learning methods is doubly bad: it doesn’t work and it weakens your motivation.
There is a better way, as some of our students have found out.
It is possible to learn vocabulary in a way that is more powerful and a lot more fun.
When you learn in this way you will be able to remember 80% of the words and phrases a year later.
Now that’s powerful!
As a student, you must be careful, killing your motivation is the worst thing you can do.
Learning English is a long journey. It requires high levels of motivation that you need to keep for many years.
Therefore, using boring vocabulary learning methods is doubly bad: it doesn’t work and it weakens your motivation.
There is a better way, as some of our students have found out.
It is possible to learn vocabulary in a way that is more powerful and a lot more fun.
When you learn in this way you will be able to remember 80% of the words and phrases a year later.
Now that’s powerful!
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The key to long term memory of vocabulary is how much attention or association you give to a new word when you first encounter it.
What do we mean by this? Well, when you learn a new word the more time you spend on associating that word with either it's opposite (antonym) or a (synonym) a different word with the same meaning, the more likely you are to remember the new word. You can also look and find phrases that contain your new word, such as collocations and idioms etc. Then you can associate it with something personal to you. This helps you remember easier. Plus this way you can double the amount of words you learn. To help you do this you can use a mind map or a spider graph to help you record new words. The next time you encounter a new word think about these points. Dictionaries are helpful to learn more about words.
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How to Encounter New Words and Phrases Regularly.
Listen to a podcast or a radio show make note of any words or phrases that are new to you.
You can look at the subtitles or transcript to help you spell new words and phrases.
Read an article online or a chapter from an eBook, again record any new words you see.
Then use the mind mapping technique to help process new words.
You can repeat this process as many times as you like.
You do not need to feel bored and tired.
As an independent learner, you are free to learn in a way that is most effective and enjoyable for you.
Try this method, I guarantee you will see a difference in your ability to remember new vocabulary.
You can look at the subtitles or transcript to help you spell new words and phrases.
Read an article online or a chapter from an eBook, again record any new words you see.
Then use the mind mapping technique to help process new words.
You can repeat this process as many times as you like.
You do not need to feel bored and tired.
As an independent learner, you are free to learn in a way that is most effective and enjoyable for you.
Try this method, I guarantee you will see a difference in your ability to remember new vocabulary.
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