Improve your vocabulary!
Words are powerful! They show knowledge, they can describe in great detail and become great literature; so use these top tips to help you on your way to improving your vocabulary!
According to a study conducted in 2006, 11 million U.S. adults (about one in 20_ have such poor English skills that they can't read a newspaper. This is astonishing, but with technology booming, we are constantly using text talk to make messages shorter and more phonetic.
According to a study conducted in 2006, 11 million U.S. adults (about one in 20_ have such poor English skills that they can't read a newspaper. This is astonishing, but with technology booming, we are constantly using text talk to make messages shorter and more phonetic.
1: Listen to more radio
Radio (or podcasts) obviously has no picture; it's all words. Therefore, the presenters have to be good with words to describe things, rather than being able to show something on a TV. The quality of vocabulary varies a lot, so to start you off, I'd recommend The Russell Brand Show Podcast. 2: Read more books
This may sound obvious, but books are a great source of words. Try reading a variety of genres to get a wider variety of words. Authors live to write, so they have some of the greatest vocabulary's around. 3: Read blogs and columns
I personally prefer columns, because if a newspaper has actually taken the steps to employ someone to write about the world around them, they're obviously going to be good at observing and describing.Blogs also do this but on a non-professional level, which is why I prefer the columns. Columnists are renowned for their great English vocabulary.
So subscribe to a newspaper column. This is one of my favourite ways of expanding my vocabulary.
4: Subscribe to 'A Word a Day'
It's what it says on the tin. It comes in various forms: email, rss, iGoogle widget etc.I use the iGoogle widget, so it's on my homepage whenever I open my browser. It's convenient, and even has an icon to click for the word to be read aloud.
You can even get a 'Word a day' calendar! Check it out!
Word A Day
From Dictionary.com
Fetching RSS feed... please stand by5: Using Google
If you hear a word that you aren't sure of, say from a radio show or podcast, then Google has a very helpful function.If I wanted to know what the word 'Hypothetical' meant, I could go to Google and in the search bar type:
Define: Hypothetical
This brings up the definitions of the word from various sources. I find this easier than going to Dictionary.com, because I have Google as my default Search Plugin for Firefox.
Another brilliant little feature from Google!
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