3705. Ways to Build Up a Vast Vocabulary when Learning English?

 I’ve been perceiving a curious fact on Granada streets lately, well, from a few years now. It’s parents with their children, walking or cycling anyway, and they’re Spanish definitely, yet they speak to those kids in English, and these ones sometimes respond in the same language. 

I guess Spain is not kind of an isolated country anymore – it used to be one like that after our civil war, in the 1930s and afterward, and now it’s pretty simpler to find young people talking in English on the streets, for example a Spaniard to a foreign person. 

And stays abroad now are much easier and more common than forty years ago, so as to speak. 

A lot of young parents try their kids would learn English as a matter of fact. 

However, today I’d like to point out something I do myself to learn English. On other previous posts I wrote that one way to increase my lexis and subsequently to learn English is what follows, just in case it may help someone. 

I read a lot, or quite a lot. Books in English. Both nonfiction and fiction. Well, you know, I come across a lot of interesting words and phrases, ways of saying things in English in specific ways. And I have a special notebook where I keep and track some of those special ways of saying things in that language. 

Well, you know, it’s one more way, one more source of learning new vocab. And eventually I utilize some of those terms and words for example when I compose a new post in both blogs I keep posting for. 

In no way do I write each new word, just I do with some of them, and not all the time, I mean, I carry out this activity sometimes or some periods of time. 

As well I review those written words and phrases at some periods alike: I do it sometimes: some span of time I track and revise those words and some other times I just study some new words while reading the chapters. 

I may have a list now of some four hundred words and phrases, perhaps more – I number each entry anyway but under the same number there may be three or four points to notice and remember. 

Also I advise my dear students to do so, the same, because it might help them or some of them. 

Something else I do is that when I’ve finished reading a page I randomly go back to some words and phrases to try to fix and retain them stuck in memory – I think the thing turns out fine and aware or unaware I learn quite may words – in other words I learn and also acquire new words. 

May all this help you or your dear students? You may just try. Have a nice day.