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Many people realize the importance of vocabulary when its too late. When you are appearing for an exam or an interview or some Group Discussion rounds where your command over English language will be tested - that is when you start preparing. People then adopt some techniques which are largely based on learning the new words by repeating it, till you remember it - may be a sentence which makes use of the word. This works in improving your knowledge about meaning of many words - but just for a short period of time!
This is because you tend to learn many words in less time - say like you want to learn 20-25 words in less than an hour. Many will think that 1 hour is okay to learn 20-25 words, whats big deal in it? But do you want to understand them properly and remember those words even after many years? Then many will realize that learning so many words and learning them forever in so little time is not that easy. When I say learning the words I mean understanding the exact usage of words. You not only should know the exact meaning of it, but also you should be able to make its use in day to day conversations - whenever you find perfect situations to use the new words. Are you still finding yourself to use same old words in daily conversations even you have learned many many new words through various vocabulary building books? If you can't use the new words, have you really increased your vocabulary? No.
So, if not this then what is the correct way of increasing vocabulary? The answer is reading exhaustively! Yes my dear, read and read..more and more...read exhaustively about diverse topics and domains. You will encounter words which you don't know, rush for a dictionary! Find it out! Google it! See different usages of that word, try to find out the situations in which the word is used. And then when your research is complete, you can say that you have learned a new word! Is this a hard way to learn? Yes it is! But this is a very guaranteed way to learn new words and learn them so nicely that you start using them in your daily conversations without any extra effort! And that is what our goal is - learning new words and using them in our daily conversations all through the rest of our life.
This is because you tend to learn many words in less time - say like you want to learn 20-25 words in less than an hour. Many will think that 1 hour is okay to learn 20-25 words, whats big deal in it? But do you want to understand them properly and remember those words even after many years? Then many will realize that learning so many words and learning them forever in so little time is not that easy. When I say learning the words I mean understanding the exact usage of words. You not only should know the exact meaning of it, but also you should be able to make its use in day to day conversations - whenever you find perfect situations to use the new words. Are you still finding yourself to use same old words in daily conversations even you have learned many many new words through various vocabulary building books? If you can't use the new words, have you really increased your vocabulary? No.
So, if not this then what is the correct way of increasing vocabulary? The answer is reading exhaustively! Yes my dear, read and read..more and more...read exhaustively about diverse topics and domains. You will encounter words which you don't know, rush for a dictionary! Find it out! Google it! See different usages of that word, try to find out the situations in which the word is used. And then when your research is complete, you can say that you have learned a new word! Is this a hard way to learn? Yes it is! But this is a very guaranteed way to learn new words and learn them so nicely that you start using them in your daily conversations without any extra effort! And that is what our goal is - learning new words and using them in our daily conversations all through the rest of our life.
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