English Vocabulary
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking.
HOW TO LEARN
- Learn vocabulary from all sources appropriate to your level (websites, apps, YouTube, books, and newspapers).
- Look up the dictionary when learning words to exploit accompanying elements: phonetic transcription, word forms, meaning, and word choice.
In addition, learn more synonyms, near-synonyms, antonyms, collocation, and word family. - When studying, you need to diligently look up in the dictionary, slow but steady. You can incorporate both English-Vietnamese and English-English dictionaries (Lac Viet and Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary seem the best).
- Once you can accumulate numerous basic vocabulary, switching to learning from books or online with English vocabulary resources by topic will be less challenging than studying discursively. The books provide separate lessons to learn and exercises to complete to quickly remember new words.
- You should note down vocabulary in your notebook or create your own unique way of taking notes. Create a habit of taking notes whenever you encounter a word you don’t know or don’t remember to speed up the memorization process.
- Imagine Grammar is like a mortar; Vocabulary is like bricks; perhaps vocabulary is one of the nightmares for English novices. Therefore, apply the rule ‘you will remember every time you meet.’ Don’t force your brain to remember right from the first experience. When you are a new learner, you will remember the words. Next, after studying more time, you will remember the phrases. Then, move on to the stage of remembering sentences, paragraphs, and entire essays. Concentration is that when we have passion, we just persist in reading and studying arduously and continuously, which will help us gather vocabulary very effectively.
Learning a new language is a long process of acquiring knowledge and sharpening skills. Just diligently study and practice without too concentrating on the exams as the score or grade is merely the evident outcome of the ceaseless progress. Just focus on how to learn so that you can use the language fluently and confidently. So, let’s begin learning and persevering with them.
