So, what’s your strategy?
Hi all!! How are you? And where have you been?
‘My last article on Vocabulary will fill my mail box with queries!!’ I thought. Hmmm such a thing did not happen. My dear students, it seems your vocabulary learning strategies are not very active. Hey, I want to ask you all a question- what does the word ‘Vocabulary’ mean? You can define it in your own way. All I want to know is what you understand from the word ‘Vocabulary’? Wikipedia says a person’s vocabulary is the set of words they are familiar with in a language. A vocabulary usually grows and evolves with age, and serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge. Now, the second part of the definition holds my attention and if I am not wrong it held yours too. I would like to slightly modify this definition and rephrase it to the GRE’s requirement. Vocabulary serves as a quintessential and fundamental tool for ones success in the GRE. I guess no one around disagrees with me, Ahem?! In that case before I start propounding theories on Vocabulary Development, tell you all the significance of Vocabulary learning and literally startle you guys declaring that Vocabulary Building is directly proportional to Personality Development….!!….well, well, well, I would like to take a break and hear you all….tell me how do you learn new words? What are those special, beautiful techniques you adopt? And please do tell me your success stories. I am keen to read your responses on this.
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i am applying orthodox techniques to improve my vocab like flash cards, newspapers, magazines, and more over i took online prep sites like that of yours very recently! this is quite quicker than usual orthodox methods! i am improving my vocab extensively though u dont find any good words in my post! i sincerely thank u guys for ur support!
Dear sir , tanks for your attention through improving my vocabulary domin , well according to your questiones , first of all I use some refrences for this imrportance , such as books artivals or even filmes , well I know for connection to other peopel every body needs to be educatied well on vocababularies.
yours throughly
Before I got something to say, let me recognise the idea of newwordlist is a benefict thing to match my english knowledge. I am an english practicer but living in french speaking country; my strategy in newword consist in understanding first the idea of all the sentences where a new word is supposed to be used correctly and then I match the context of the phrase so, I have noticed that my technic has given to me the chance of taking good score. Many of them were over 60/100.
Thank you for your help.
Hi , my name is rana and iam from Egypt.
I think that vocabulary is a set of words that help us to improve our language and help us also to communicate with people all around the world
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And about my strategy i revise more and more new words all the time. I listen all the time to English movies, songs and so on.
hi..
m new to this site…
learning new words is interesting i think.
i think reading books,newspapers and watching english movies (nt the dubbed ones) is the best way to build your vocab
and i find this incredibly helpful for the same.
Thank you very much for creating such a site, that helps to everyone who is eager to improve English and enrich vocabulary. I improve my English by reading articles, listening lectures and watching movies. I write out all the new words and repeat, before I master them.
hi! regarding my leaning from your wordlist, I My self found out that i’m improving.revise more and more new words and lean to spell them oftenly.
when i saw the film entittled by “counting the Bee” i really knew something where the origin of a new word may lye in some manner even i could n’t get a full picture about. even though i live in a multi linguale african country i find english vocablury difficult in many veiws to understand easily..
Thank you for your response as well as question concerning a programme launched through GRE so as to improve English language skills . Vocabulary is key & base for ascending an English language as instruction medium in any nation for any field of specialization .
Thank you
response to ”whats your strategy”……..
i think that vocabulary learning is a gigantic task…..as rome was not buit in 1 day……vocab knowledge cannot be gained in just 1 day….
it requires constant revision……and deligence being the most necessary quality that 1 should adopt.
its been nearly 6-7 months that i hav started learning vocab from barrons….but still i have not completed.
as i m persuing my B.E , i am not able to do it on a regular basis.
but i have been diligent all these days….and now i am confident that i am thorough with atleast 70 percent of the vocab section from barrons…
and this site is really a wonderful website…..its a systematic and organized way of learnig vocab.
thank you
Iam very much glad for yuor help that you giveby building my vocabulary skill Iam realy in debt of that .Sure building vocabulary is one of the door way to success in English language so Iam of the view that all the memebers of this web would benefit more and be well in the meand time.
thank for your support
Mr. koat from Ethiopia, Africa
What I want yhe foremost is to get prepared for toefl and also to improve my english.
amey
did you try our word list tests??
we have more coming soon..
Hi, am Saumu a kenyan,
I Improove my vocab by reading books, reading newspaper and even trying to fill in the code word and crossword so that if am stuck during filling i go to the dictionary to check and thus get to know. Now yet another method of learning is to visit several websites and get to lern more.
Thankyou
i m reading novels 2 improve my vcab n writing skill as well
hey!!
im giving my GRE exam on sept 8 and would like to know from where i should start studying and the best tactics to remember the words. thanks in advance
sathya
i basically pick up words from the movies. my largest resource.
but talkin about the kind of words that make it into the GRE exam, i feel i shud shift more onto my second biggest resource that is “literature”….
learnin a word becomes easier when you stick to a particular genre of movies…. yes that’s the truth behind me.
a particular genre has a complete set a vaocab that keeps on repeatin in every movie….. so listenin it over n over and thru different people…..at different moments… n in slightly different situations..
war movies, corporate films, drama, art movies, comedy, teen movies get u the slangs… so that is it…
Suyash, thanks for sharing these techniques with us..I think what you practice is indeed an effective technique..we tend to learn faster in an audio-visual medium..gr8!
Dear Anu Veluri,
I am extremely grateful to you for your effort. From the moment I discovered this site, I am spending every second of my spare time exploring valuable content. Therefore, I will try to contribute by sharing my experience.
I was lucky enough to have 2 native languages and opportunity to be exposed to 12 more languages from early childhood. Ever since I remember I have been eager to learn new languages and most of the time I was persistent or crazy enough to fulfill everything I was up to. So, on top of what I had by birth I studied 6 more languages including English.
As far as English is concerned I have studied it from the age of 11. In parallel with school textbooks I used assimil method and read every single book I had in English. I tried to increase my knowledge using textbooks from various courses given in Language schools and various grammar practices. As a teenager I was exposed to movies which were not synchronized, but I am not sure that it helped me a lot because I was able to read subtitles fast without noticing that I am actually reading. After the high school I started to buy Speak UP Magazine which helped me a lot to broaden English vocabulary and get acquainted with people and culture in English speaking countries from slightly different perspective than ever before. Whenever I had any chance I tried to speak English with someone, anyone. After graduation was the first major break trough, meaning I had a lot more possibilities to test my English language skills first in written communication and later on speaking too. I was sure that I am in full command of the language until, 4 months ago I started to prepare TOEFL and understood that there are some words that I could not even guess the meaning. Coming back to the blackboard, I tried to gather as much knowledge as possible. Most probably all of the material helped me a lot to be satisfied with what I showed on the exam, but the book that I appreciated more than any other was Barrons 504 Absolutely essential words. It is fascinating how easily and pretty fast I succeeded to remember all of them. Other book that follows the similar pattern Mc Graw Hill’s 400 Must-have Words for the TOEFL did not impress me that much. At the moment I am preparing GRE exam. I am not sure what is my actual strategy. As I said, I use every spare moment to finish all Free GRE prep tests, all Free Word tests and synonyms-antonyms tests on this site. What might be interesting is that I am amazed how some new words, or words which I thought I knew generate completely new sensations now. I feel that I can fly with them, when I catch them it seems like I can taste them with all their particular flavors. All in all it is a fabulous feeling.
Everything I learned, heard or felt, contributed to my current knowledge and appreciation of words. Nevertheless, I can not say that what I am writing is a success story. I am still puzzled and dazzled with all these GRE words. How come that after everything I have learned during my life I still can not fully understand fifty percent of all the words on any average GRE test?
That’s an amazing write-up!! Thanks for drafting all this so patiently..and thanks for sharing all your valuable experience…
Regards,
Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate your work and it seems I have succeeded to show my appreciation with my post. I will try to contribute regularly and hopefully it might be useful for someone else too.
Yesterday, I got one more proof that what I wrote is not a success story, yet. I tried one more practice test (from Peterson’s Master The GRE 2009) and scored on verbal segment only 50%, again. I will try to adopt some strategy and will inform you about my progress. Moreover, I will try to find some corresponding blog to post a comment about my overall preparation for GRE and some thoughts about it.
Regards,
Dusan
Thanks Dusan, awaiting your contributions…pls do that after all this is a site for industrious students like you..isn’t it??..:-)
Yup, you are right! Site is great and lot of students who are not industrious could and should use it more than it is used now…
yup!!..:-)
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