Pieces of advice on learning vocabulary

Leaning all of the vocabulary of a language is really difficult. There's a lot of vocabulary but you don't  expect to know all of it. If you want to learn vocabulary or to improve how to interpret the vocabulary that you don't understand of the language you’re learning, follow these advices:

-Read newspapers, books, magazines, and underline new vocabulary.You have to read texts on your level where you don't understand three of four words, but don't chose text with a lot of words you don't know.


-Listen to songs and read their lyrics to learn new words. It's a funny way of learning. Don't try to search words in the dictionary, it's boring and not very useful.

-If you don't know a word try to describe it with other words or just use another word or expression that is closer to it. 

-The new words you lear, write them in a Post-it and put it somewhere yo ucan read it every day. Don't try to memorise, just read this vocabulary every day to get used with it. 

- If you don’t know some of the word in a text, don’t stop reading; think about their meaning according to the context. 

-If you're writing a text and you don't know a word, look for some synonyms that you're more used to write. 


If you want to learn a new word you will have to pronouce it well, spell it well, know the situation when you can use it and finally know the positive or negative connotations that it has.