##Introduction to an Informative and Factual Blog Post on How to Improve Your Vocabulary If you're a student or a someone who likes reading, chances are that your vocabulary is rather limited. And if your career doesn't require a lot of verbal communication, then vocabulary may not be as important as it is for more vocally-involved jobs. It's not until you really need what you don't have that the lack becomes obvious! If this describes you, don't worry — by making some small changes to your daily habits and learning some tricks from experts, it becomes much easier than one might think. So, without further ado, let's dive in and learn some tricks on how to improve your vocab! The first thing to understand is something I call 'the Four-Layer Vocabulary', which is a simple idea that becomes increasingly important as we go along. The Four-Layer Vocabulary: Let's break this down: The most important thing about vocabulary is that it's learned — meaning that you need to keep learning new words and making them your own. Also, most noteworthy about the vocabulary we learn in school is that it tends to be rather generic (i.e., meaning you need a certain amount of it for almost any subject material). It's the same with the vocab you learn on your own — it's all about finding your own vocabulary and making it yours. Let's recap: The Four-Layer Vocabulary: The most important thing about vocabulary is that it's learned — meaning that you need to keep learning new words and making them your own. Also, most noteworthy about the vocabulary we learn in school is that it tends to be rather generic (i.e., meaning you need a certain amount of it for almost any subject material). It's the same with the vocab you learn on your own — it's all about finding your own vocabulary and making it yours. We learn vocabulary from a few sources: Books, TV, Movies, Music, and of course yourself. Our ability to memorize things is limited. When we read a book for the first time, we'll likely only remember half of what we read by the end of it. This is how it goes with almost all the media you consume on a daily basis — your brain doesn't know which words to apply to which situations or people! To get around this issue, the majority of us will use our own knowledge from life experiences and from what we've been exposed to by reading books, TV shows, movies etc. to learn new words on our own. So for example if you've ever played online games, you're likely to have learned a lot of gaming-related words that way. If you're an avid reader, you're likely to have picked up a lot of 'fiction' words that the author hasn't explained in detail, which is pretty much how it goes with everything we read or watch on TV or online. The problem is that most people don't do anything with this! They'll simply learn the word and forget it, forgetting the context in which they learned it in. 8eeb4e9f32 47
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