Improve your vocabulary
By elsoft12
@elsoft12 (1821)
India
April 3, 2009 4:08am CST
I find many people coming here to improve their English.Mylot is definetely one of the best places online to put their views into words and share.However,if someone is looking to improve their vocabulary then I would suggest the site www.improvingvocabulary.org I hope it helps people who are here to improve their language can improve their vocabulary as well with this site.
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@Hengyuanxiang (13)
• China
3 Apr 09
Thanks for the information.
I wanna come out of my puzzles.As is known,mastery of English is based on the extensive vocabulary.I think i have spent so much time and energy in memorizing massive words.But the result is disappointing.I find my listening English and Oral English are still poor as before.So my problem is that,do it improve ur Listening and oral English to extend the vocabulary?
Thx a lot.
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@elsoft12 (1821)
• India
3 Apr 09
Hello Heng,Thanks for the post.When you try to memorize trying to mug up words,its difficult to remember in the longterm,so it is better to make some of your sentences with those words and use them at appropriate situations like in a relevant mylot dscussion.As mentioned in a previous post "According to the web site www.improvingvocabulary.org making up your own examples can also improve your memory of words by 670%"
@Hengyuanxiang (13)
• China
3 Apr 09
Thank you very much for further advice.
I optted for a not bad dictionary whose every word has a following sentence.The principal point of your opinion for me is trying to make some sentences with the new word i have learnd.
A very good proposal! And I will start that with discussions in Mylot.Haha
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@moneymakeronline (135)
• China
3 Apr 09
Thanks for sharing us the website.But i think mylot is enough to improve my vocabulary.I know my English is not well and my vocabulary is less.So i came to mylot and here i have earn more than i image.
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@elsoft12 (1821)
• India
3 Apr 09
One can learn the words and prepare.Mylot can be like a laboratory where you can participate in discussions and make use of the words learnt.According to the web site www.improvingvocabulary.org, making up your own examples can also improve your memory of words by 670%.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
3 Apr 09
wow that is really encouraging. i will try this site now. i love to learn english more. i feel that i need to learn a lot to be fluent in english. hopefully this one will help me learn faster.
@smacksman (6053)
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3 Apr 09
Good move! As an Englishman, who has a very limited knowledge of other languages, I am always impressed with the general standard of English here on Mylot.
While there may be mistakes, it is a very rare occurrence when I am unable to understand what the member is trying to say.
Well done everybody!
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@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
3 Apr 09
Thank you elsoft for giving us this site, it really help us to improve our vocabulary. Even myself hard to speak English with the right word vocabulary usage. We are not natural English spoken but we have our English class in our education. So we are learning from this but somebody does not took their studies because of poverty that arises in their lives. But being educated does not stop only in school. Again friend thanks for giving this site. Have a nice day!
@IcEcrEaM88 (23)
• Singapore
3 Apr 09
yeah, i agree on your last part! "being educated does not stop only in school"
whats the use of learning all those eight subjects(for me), when you cannot apply it when you go out into society? all these crappy-and i mean CRAPPY-studying can only get you a qualification.
imagine you go out and see someone, he shows you all his fantastic qualifications... you are incredibly impressed... but you look up, see that whoever has been showing you all those is actually a dumb NERD! someone who does not know how to face people... does not know how to interact with people... does not know how to socialise... then what is the #$%@&!% use of those qualifications? yeah, you may argue that the qualification can get you a job. yeah.. just a job. but after getting that job, how are you even going to interact with your colleagues(dunno how to spell lol), much less say your clients!
getting yourself a social life has a heavy weightage in life. SAY NO TO SITTING HOURS IN FRONT OF YOUR TEXTBOOK! oh yeah, another thing, PEOPLE WHO STUDY ARE MOSTLY MEMORISERS! they cannot do without memorising.. if the teacher just twists the question a little, they are dumbfounded! no idea how to be creative. why? cos' their brains are filled with knowledge from the book! i simply can't stand these people
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
4 Apr 09
I checked it out and a lot of it made sense. When I went to school, we were told to not only to look up the word in the dictionary, but to read every example of the word in a sentence or a paragraph until we got the gist of it. Then we were told to also use it either by writing sentences or speaking. It is also helpful because there are some words that mean the same but are used in separate contexts.
This is not helpful just for those who are learning English but for those who want to be writers, for those who had to quit school or changed from the academic stream to the business or vocational stream and find that they have to struggle later on to use the right word in the proper context.
@kawalnarang (1095)
• Trinidad And Tobago
3 Apr 09
Thank s ssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooo much i will try,, My English is really awful, God really sent you to guide meeeeeeeeeee Thanks once again..I was waiting for somebody who could show me what u did right now,,even I can say MyLot is one of the best sites
@kawalnarang (1095)
• Trinidad And Tobago
4 Apr 09
I am not the kind who will say it just to please a boy/girl,, but when u are so nice,,' so 'automatically turns out to appear as ssssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooo,
@kaleem_jr (106)
• Pakistan
27 Apr 09
HOW? Every link is reffered to a next one. How I'm gonna learn then? Start it over here by using new ideas.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
4 Apr 09
English is my first language, but because I don't have a very good reading level I often lack vocabulary skills as well.
I found the book "The Idiot's Guide to a Smart Vocabulary" to be very helpful.
But now I need to learn more advanced vocabulary for the GRE.
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
4 Apr 09
I also think myLot helped me a lot in improving my vocabulary. I am not very good at English initially. I think myLot helped a lot to increase my typing speed and my English. Thank you for the site and I will certainly look forward to increase my language.
@Dasari100 (3791)
• Anantapur, India
4 Apr 09
I think it is good to discuss about Vocabulary expecially when we have probelm prounciation this website may be useful and majority of them facing the problems.
@snow_one (202)
• United States
4 Apr 09
i think that my writing and grammar skills are actually put to the test on sites like this. i read some forums and learn some things and i get to put in my input on them so i get to use my vocabulary that i already have and i learn new words and how to use them. its like school all over again lol
