How to Increase the Vocabulary

December 25th, 2007 by admin

All the students have to remember much educational information and have it in the mind. Especially it refers for such subjects as foreign languages, as the students have to remember thousands of foreign words and to know the meaning of such words. During the studying many students collide with a problem of poor vocabulary. Below some tips how to increase the vocabulary and to make it fast and effective are described. The person increases his vocabulary during the life. It is permanent and continuous process. The main thing the people have to do is to choose the best method of word remembering and use it during the studying. Usually in the childhood people remember the words faster, as they collide every day with new life situations and it is very impressive and exciting for them. The children often ask the questions to their parents and other adult people and they are motivated to learn more. According to the researches the children knew about 5.600 words in the age of 4, in the age of 5 - 9.600 words, in the age of 6 – 14.700 words, in the age of 7 – 21.200, in the age of 8 – 26.300, in the age of 9 – 29.300, in the age of 10 – 34.000. In the college the students usually knows about 120.000 words.
 
This statistic data confirms that the more people learn, the more words they know. It does not matter how old are you, you have to continue your learning all the time during the life.
 
To increase the vocabulary the person can do the following things: read, as the more the person read, the more words he learns; try to use new words in everyday communications and situations, use the dictionary as often as possible and pay attention on different meanings of the same word; try to learn 5-10 new words every day.

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