Learning new words

[إبراهيم المزيد]

It is widely asked the following question from English learners - What is the best method to learn new words
Please, try to post your answers here
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[habeeb]

I always memorize new words and try to use them in sentences from my own

[غريب الدار]

I Think Watching Movies & Programs And Reading An English Magzines & Newspapers Is The Best Method To Learn New Words.

Thanks Ibrahim

[إبراهيم المزيد]

Some Techniques About Learning New Words

Before writing these techniques, you better know that Learning New Words is like Losing Weight- there is no truly easy way to do it. If you want to lose weight, you have to eat less and exercise more. Medicine will not help you to do it. If you want to build up educated vocabulary, you have to work too. Therefore, the more effort you put, the more new words you learn and always remember the saying
You Are The Prisoner Of Your Vocabulary

:The first method is Tricks and Mnemonics

Mnemonics is a device or trick that helps you REMEMBER something specific. It can apply to the spelling, meaning, and pronunciation of new words. It also helps you memorize new sentence. For example, if you want to remember the spelling of a hard word like "arithmetic", you may use the following mnemonic: "A Rate In The House Might Eat Tom's Ice Cream". The first letter in each word in this sentence stands for the letters in the word "arithmetic". Remember the sentence and you remember the spelling of the word

This technique can appeal to our ears too. Look at this sentence
"In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue"
Look also at the spelling mnemonic: "i" before "e" except after "c," and in words that say "a," as in "neighbor" and "weight." This mnemonic say that in writing "i" comes before "e" except if they come after "c" or words that have the sounds "a

Remember
All mnemonics work in the same way: by forcing you to associate what are you trying to remember with something that you already know, or with something that is easier to MEMORIZE

(Robinson, 2001)

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[محمد العليان]

Dear Ibrahim

Thanks a lot for your explanation. If I may add, I think it's very important that a learner MUST discover his/her own way of learning. Some learners may depend mainly of their visual perception of the information. others, may depend on their audial ones.

At the end of the day, what matters is the target ( which is learnign the language), regardless the method. However, learner should be familier woth the variaty of learning methods.

Regards

Mohammed al-Olayan

[إبراهيم المزيد]

Mohammad, you are absolutely right. No method is the only and best method to learn new words. Everyone has to find his/her own method since no one method can apply to everyone. However, these techniques are said to help those who have no method or have not yet discovered their methods of learning new words

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[Light Night]

Thank u sooooo much


I think it is a very useful method

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Light Night

[إبراهيم المزيد]

The second method is deducing the word's meaning from the context

Context will often lead you astray, but doing a bit of detective work is a good way to sharpen your mind and hone your reading comprehension skills. What comes before and after the word always share connections. Just focus on that connection and try to find out the meaning.

Look at this following example about the word "charisma": The undeniable charisma of Bill Clinton enabled him to convince Americans to reelect him

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Thanks everybody

[المشتاق]

That`s good Mr. Ibraheam

I remember my teacher gave me an advice
which is : ( Write every new word in a small notepaper and look at it every day )1

thanks