How to Increase Vocabulary - Studying English Vocabulary

Learn tips and tricks to increase your vocabulary. First learn how to pick up new words, then learn tips for memorization. Always study the pronunciation and practice words out loud!

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Cải thiện nói tiếng Anh Mỹ / 改善美式英語的發音 / 미국 영어 발음 향상 / アメリカ英語の話し言葉のアクセントを向上させる / Улучшение произношения американского английского языка / Meningkatkan berbicara bahasa Inggris Amerika / Melhore sua pronúncia do inglês americano / Mejora tu pronunciación en Inglés Americano / बात अमेरिकी अंग्रेजी में सुधार / تحسين لهجتك الأمريكية الإنجليزية / שפר את המבטא האמריקאי שלך

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[nica]

1. Read
Think of a similar word
Learn the pronunciation
Write down new words with its meaning
Look for related words (adj, noun, verb, etc)
Look for its antonym or a synonym of a word

2. Watch TV, movies or online videos
Watch with your notebook
Practice out loud
Pay attention to pronunciation (imitate)

How to memorize everything?
Try to memorize 3-5 words day.
Tip 1. The Laura
Add a melody to the information or words (Make a song)
Tip 2. Repetition and grouping
Organize your words or information
Tip 3. Visualization

[matheusscharf]

Unbelievable. 90% of the methods you mentioned I've been using since I started learning English. That's how I also succeeded learning German, Spanish and now Swedish. I watch series and movies with english subtitles and every time I read/hear a new word I check it out in the dictionary and write it down, together with the meaning, IPA-spell and a sentence. It has helped me a lot! Thanks a lot for the lessons by the way, you are doing an excelent job!

[joybelllopez]

I am 50 years old, i've learned english for many years, and i find that learn english is a kind of hobbie for me. Thanks you

[Alex-mpwr]

I'm finally found a good teacher for improving my English, thank you so much all video is amazing

[abdogamal]

most of Egyptian English learners love you so much you're a famous person here in Egypt we love you

[Maoveeds]

i am egyptian i have been practicing english by myself for few years and i finally dicovered your channel, really its smothing, your lessons really make me improve more, thank u

[vkorchnoifan]

I use "The Synonym Finder" best book for finding words that mean the same. Excellent book.

[frankoarmani]

I learned so much English because of you. God bless you.

[robertopino]

Hi! I found many of your videos useful, especially because of their focus on pronunciation, which definetely is the most difficult aspect of this language, in my opinion. Regarding how to improve the vocab, well I think I have a good tip: MUSIC.
What I personally do is trying to understand the lyrics the best I can, but when a song is particularly tough to understand (great!) I download the lyrics. Then I copy them and I delete some of the words, so the next time I listen to the song I will play the game of filling the gaps. Of course I also sing along, which is great for pronunciation. I think this works better than movies. And that's because it's very hard to enjoy a movie with many pauses to jot down words or sentences. And in the end you don't do it. Music, instead, gives you the opportunity to listen to the same language input over and over again without getting bored. And you get a lot of phrasal verbs and idioms in context! If you love music as much as I do, you will improve your english and really enjoy the songs you listen to.
Greetings from Italy!

[fatimabarreto]

Rachel, I feel good listening to you. Some American people told me I have a good pronunciation. Unfortunatelly, I live in the country and I have nobody to talk in English and practice. But I found you here and this is a marvelous gift to me.

[MinzyC]

OMG, I'm not so good at listening but I can understand almost what she said! Love this channel! Thank you, Rachel!

[folheandoaventuras]

I'm a Portuguese speaker, I'm from Brazil and your videos have helped me a lot, thank you very much.

[NazidreckInDieTonne]

Ok, here I tell you, how I've learned roundabout 10.000 English vocabularies....

1. I have written a storage program in Excel VBA (visual basic application), where I stored and organised new vocabularies from books I've read.


2. When I read a new book, I entered new vocabulaies into my Excel database, with example-sentences and a scorefield for nowledge with the marks 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . 6 meant no clue-new word and 1 meant, that I know the word very good.

On each learning session, I took about 20 vokabulary and gave them new score marks. If they reached the score 2 or 1 then they were finished. By this 'system' I learned all new new words.

[lyllies]

I can't, I can't, I just can't watch one of your videos without taking my notebook and write notes...your words are like gold. something that has helped me a lot is to write words and notes on my cellphone, use the voice recorder and practice as many times.

[Sivolcss]

Hello, Rachel. I am from Brasil (with "S") and I really love the way you teach English.

[jennynguyen]

The Best teacher ever! Thank you for everything you have done for us. I appreciate you. I have learned so much when ever I watched your video.

[susyvargas]

Thank you for giving us those important tips. I remember when I was taking ESL classes at school, watching some of your videos. They really helped me a lot to comprehend more about how the American English is spoken and used. Even though at school students learn grammar it is very helpful to know how American people talk and pronoun words. It is nice that teachers like you are doing such an amazing job by teaching and helping ESL students. You are also encouraging students to keep studying, I found that extremely important. Thank you for taking the time and effort to do all those amazing videos! :)

[rolijain]

very helpful. thanks for sharing ! I am immigrant I USA. after 17 years, this is the first time ...I can get directions that are so clear and helpful to improve my English.
great teacher !

[aniballopezmunoz]

Thank you Rachel for the tips. For improve my english skills, my coach recomended me to follow your channel 😊😊, specially for the pronunciation, but with this video, I realize that one of my disadvantages in english is that I don't handle a lot of vocabulary. I'll put in practice your english methods, let's see how I goes. A big fan, from Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱

[samantham]

This channel is just incredible 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️