Never Forget English Vocabulary Again with These Tips!

do you keep forgetting the new vocabulary you've learned it's really annoying to study hard and then discover that you can't remember the words a few days later but there are proven ways to remember what you learn much better and I'll teach you two very effective ones today these techniques are what we use inside my vocabulary builder courses I'll put a link to those in the video description tip number one we remember words better with images let me tell you about an interesting experiment students learned a lesson then were tested to see how much of the lesson they remembered 3 days later when the lesson was only verbal the teacher talking students remembered about 20% of the content they had heard when the lesson was only written reading a text things were even worse students could only remember about 10% of what they had read but when the lesson was verbal and visual students remembered 65% of the content at after 3 days that's a big Improvement there is a lot of scientific evidence showing that pictures and images help you remember what you're learning more effectively our brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text and we remember visual information for a longer time so how can this help you improve your vocabulary when studying English most students just study text text and more text they read word lists and definitions trying to memorize them it's difficult and it's not very effective but learning vocabulary with pictures has a lot of benefits you understand the word faster you remember it longer you learn to associate the image directly with the English word not by translating from your native language and it's just more fun to learn with pictures that's why my vocabulary builder course is full of great pictures and illustrations tip number two actively use new vocabulary words yourself there's nothing worse than wanting to use a particular English word and knowing that you know the word you've studied the word but you just can't think of it at the moment it's really frustrating why is it so hard to bring words to mind when you need to use them the answer is related to active versus passive vocabulary your passive vocabulary includes words that you can recognize and understand if you see them or if someone else says them to you and your active vocabulary is the words that you can understand and use yourself this has nothing to do with active voice and passive voice in grammar it's a completely different concept most people have a bigger passive vocabulary than active vocabulary this means you can understand better than you can speak so you know a lot of English words but you feel like you can't use the vocabulary to express yourself fully so how can you turn your passive vocabulary words you recognize into active vocabulary words you can use to remember your new vocabulary better use the new words right away every time you learn a new English word I suggest writing down the word the definition in English or the translation one example sentence from the article or from your dictionary and one example sentence that you create my vocabulary builder course makes it easy to put new words into practice because at the end of each lesson there are two exercises a quiz to help you review and test your knowledge of the new words and short answer writing exercises to help you create your own sentences using the new vocabulary you can even send in your sentences for correction from the espresso English teaching team this strategy of using new words actively right away and creating your own example sentences is something you can do at any level of English from beginner to Advanced if you make this a habit then you'll find yourself with a much larger active vocabulary making it easier to speak and write in English without pausing to think of the right word I hope you found these two tips helpful and I'd love to see you inside the vocabulary builder courses again click on the link in the video description to learn more and sign up [Music]