Words in English are mercuric. It's quite hard for English learners to retain and use the new words.
How can I retain the new words? This is, actually, the most frequent question asked by English learners. So here is the answer:
Well, there's a potent strategy that shall absolutely help you.
1. First of all, get the words from the context whether a reading passage, a listening audio or whatever. Getting words in isolation would help increasing your vocabulary repertoire, but it will not help using these words properly.
2. Get a special notebook for the new words.
You, as English learners, tend to run into numerous words from different sources everyday. If these words aren't stored well, they will fade away from the memory and you will not be able to retrieve them.
3. Keep before u sleep and when you wake up!
This is the most powerful tip of all. Have you ever listened to a song before going to bed, and you woke up in the next day singing it all day long? Your answer would probably be "yes". To understand why, you should first know that when we are awake our conscious mind works, and when we are asleep our unconscious mind works. Consequently, when you go to sleep your unconscious mind will substitute your conscious mind. This means that the words you have just kept before going to bed will move to your unconsciousness. Thus, they will be processed during your sleep. When you wake up and read the words again in the morning, they will move to your consciousness. Hence, they will be in process all the day long.
4. When taking the words into your notebook, use them in sentences of your own and write the phonemic transcription of the words so that you pronounce them well.
5. Learn words in categories. Categories makes it easier for you to recall the other words that are linked to the words you have. For example, the word "father" belongs to the category of "family". So when you encounter the word "father", you will remember all other words that belong to the category of "family" such as mother, sister, son, husband, ..etc.
6. When memorizing, use your senses.
Suppose you have the word "book", look at the word with your Eyes. Say it out loud with your Tongue. Hear it with your Ears. And most importantly, imagine it and feel it with your Mind and Heart ; that is, imagine "a book" in your mind. Do this with all the new words because using all the senses makes memorizing easier.
7. Practice makes perfect.
If you memorize words without practising them when you speak, they will surely fade away with the course of time. Hence, you need to speak all the time in order to practise your words. If you have no chance to practise, then think in English! It's a great way to practise. Thinking in English is actually an integral part in the process of getting the hang of this language. When you think in English, you saturate yourself with it.
8. Whenever you cannot retrieve words or make a mistake in spelling or pronunciation , go back and check it instantly, for instant recalling consolidates the word in your mind.
9. Constant revision is a must. Everyday we run into a massive amount of data and knowledge. New words are only one part. So if we don't revise them, we surely will lose them.Try not to begin keeping today's new words until you revise yesterday's words, and allocate the weekend for revision only.
10. Don't get frustrated for not using all the words. It is natural to use only those which correspond to your daily affairs. And don't worry the other ones will go nowhere. They will be stored in your vocabulary repertoire.
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