How is your vocabulary study progressing? Have you discovered that – no matter how much you grumble about the need to put in some daily study time – the best results come from regular practice? We’re sure of your eventual … Continue reading…
It’s easier to become enthusiastic and involved with a study program – any course of study, not just English vocabulary – if you find reasons to be invested in that program. A good way to make sure you buy into … Continue reading…
In French, they call it l’esprit d’escalier, or “staircase wittiness” – it’s the perfect comeback that you could have used to get the better of the person you’d been arguing with, if only you’d come up with it before you … Continue reading…
There are many ways to learn and remember new vocabulary words. Repetition is a common method, and writing out a word over and over and saying it out loud several times will definitely help that word stick in your mind. … Continue reading…
Did you make a New Year’s resolution to improve your vocabulary? Like many other life-changing programs, it might be hard to keep up over the long run. Studies have shown that most people who make resolutions don’t keep them; in … Continue reading…
Our brains process input from a variety of sources. We get information from two main sensory organs, our eyes and ears, which provide what we see and what we hear, and often the combination of both at once. Having two … Continue reading…
The Lord of the Acoma shifted knobby knees beneath the desk. “I am answering my father’s letter. Listen to this: ‘Dear Father: Are you well? I have won all my wrestling matches at the soldiers’ bath at Sulan-Qu. I am … Continue reading…
The process of vocabulary improvement is something that started when you were an infant, as you heard words and learned to attach them to people and objects around you. Later, you began connecting the sounds of words to their visual … Continue reading…
Do you have questions about the qualities of the English vocabulary words that start with Q? Perhaps there’s a quiz in your future you don’t feel qualified for, or a quotation you’ve heard that leads you to query the spelling … Continue reading…
With the start of the new year, many people make resolutions to improve themselves over the coming twelve months. We encourage you to think about adding one (or all ten) of these vocabulary-improvement resolutions to your list – they’re easier … Continue reading…