Did you know that by the time you started to talk until you were 10 years old your vocabulary was increasing in an average of 50 words daily. Then from there it started to decline mostly because you've learned all the words you need to function and be able to relay what you need. Upon reaching adulthood, it becomes worse and for some their vocabulary just stopped expanding.
If you're an adult do this: could you think of a new word you've learned yesterday? last week? last month?
If your answer is all no to the questions above, you might be thinking "I'm too old for that, my memory wasn't as sharp as it used to, besides I already know all the words I need."
However for some you might recall feeling or thinking "Gosh, I didn't understand parts of the English movie I just saw, how come they were all laughing?" or
"What did the new-hire mean in his email? What a show off!" or
"My email seems too long, they might never read through all of this, how can I make it concise? if only there is one word that can replace this phrase!" or
"To understand the newspaper articles I had to check the dictionary three times!" or
"It took me a month to finish reading this book if only I didn't have to look up some of the words."
Okay, you get the idea. There are benefits to having a wide vocabulary. If you have felt something similar to those enumerated above, felt ashamed of it and want to take ACTION, this blog will help you create and maintain a wide word bank in your head where you can easily recall the right words when you need them.
Go through the posts in the order they were created, you need to learn the old lessons first to fully maximize learning from the new ones.
Schedule a daily time period for you to take the lessons, do it everyday and never miss out, make it FIXED. Look for a place where you can learn the lessons without any disturbance and make that place fixed also, always do your lessons in the same place. Why? This will make you comfortable with it, in time your mind will be hard wired to start learning every time you go into that place, your brain will automatically set to a learning mode.
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