How do we learn new words? It’s a simple question, isn’t it? It’s enough that you:
- Take a new word.
- Understand meaning.
- Memorize the meaning.
Everyone executes the above steps a little differently. I think that the way how we do it has the most impact on learning productively.
1. Take a word
How do you choose a word that you want to understand? Is It a random word? One word from a thousand most popular ones? Maybe the word is from your recent or last English lesson at school or with your native speaker?
I think that words you choose affect your motivation and pleasure in learning. The words you choose will influence how quickly you learn these new words and ease with which you memorize the definitions.
It is obvious that you gather new words from learning English when you speak, write and read. If you enjoyed your lesson it should be simple enough to recognize interesting words to learn. If your lessons aren’t interesting, change your teacher. Of course, try to suggest another topic or suggest yourself before you decided to take a definitive step.
I get to know new words during my free timelike watching videos on TEDx, vlogs on youtube and reading articles that are interesting to me such as tech or productivity. I get to know new words when I look up definitions.
Second part of this article you can find How get to know words better? Part 2.
