How to Memorize English Vocabulary by Training Our Brain

 How to  Memorize or Remember English Vocabulary by Training  Our Brain



Today we will learn how to  memorize English Vocabulary by training  our brain.

If you ask a  teacher of language,how can I improve or memorize  my vocabulary?They'll probably say something similar to:
*read books
*watch films
*speak with natives
*do vocabulary exercises
*read newspaper
and  then repeat, repeat, repeat!

These are all valid points! When I was learning Spanish(for example),I was able  to enrich my vocabulary incredibly quickly and this was possible for the method that I created for myself.


This method or technique  may already exists but I identified my need and I created a  amazing solution.I needed something that I could do bit by bit ,day by day.

And now  I am  going to  explain to you how you can do this method  or technique too to memorize vocabulary.

My method of memorizing vocabulary  is going to train your brain to start thinking in that second language that you have targeted to learn.

So, what's the first step?

Well, when you wake up in the morning,you somehow need to remind yourself that today I'm going to be searching for words that I don't already know.

Constantly!

So you  can put a poster on your door,a post-it note on your fridge ,a reminder on your phone or anything to remind you that today.
New words!

So, from the minute you leave the house, you need to be on the look out for words that you don't know.Try to start thinking in the language that you're trying to learn for me it's Spanish.So, I'm thinking in Spanish.
I see a pigeon(English)
'paloma'(Spanish).I Know it.


OK, I  see a bus stop.I'm not sure how to say that in Spanish.So, I whip out my phone quickly and write it down in English and then I forget about it. And I keep on doing that throughout the day.

So you're constantly on the look out.Do I know that in Spanish?Yes I do. Left it.
Do I know that in Spanish?
No, I don't. Write it down.

You might end up with five words at the end of the day.You might end up with twenty words at the end of the day.

It depends on your level, and also where you are.By doing this, you are train your brain to become accustomed to thinking about things in that second language that you want to learn fast.And it will help you towards fluency.

Then, you're also creating a list on your phone of all the things that you've seen throughout the day that you don't know how to say.

Now the important part of this comes when you arrive home in the evening.So when you get home from work or university that day,you need to dedicate a couple of minutes to creating a word diary.

I use a notepad for this because I like to  use two pages per day.so, I write the date.I write a short sentence about what I did that day.And then I go ahead and I look at the words that I didn't know today
on my phone and I add them into my diary.

So the words I saw today were:
pigeon, litter, bus stop, jeweller's and skyscraper.

and I don't know how to say those in Spanish.So I move on to the next page

And I go and search them on the internet

So the first word was pigeon

So I get my computer

I use a website like 'WordReference'

I search 'pigeon'

and I listen to the pronunciation

'paloma'

great, 'paloma'

and then I add that to my word diary one of my words was 'skyscraper' that I didn't know.

so I use 'WordReference' to search for 'skyscraper'

and then I listen to the pronunciation

'rascacielos'

'Rascacielos' ok, and I add that to my word diary

'rascacielos'

great! And then I just keep on doing that Untill my list is full! and then I have a definitive list of all the new vocabulary that I saw today.

So ideally you need to do this diary every day.Make it a part of your life and a part of your routine.So what you're actually doing by following this process and this method is you're training your brain to be constantly looking and confirming that it knows words in that second language and immediately when it doesn't know alert! you write that word down and then you know that you're going to search for it later.

It's really interesting to look back through your word diary after months of doing this process because you see words and you just think 'Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't know how to say that!'

When you wake up the next morning after having completed your diary the night before,you'll immediately see:

skyscraper = rascacielos

pigeon = paloma

You just are constantly, it's there, it's in your mind.Once you've trained your brain to think and process in this way.It's going to be so much easier to pick up vocabulary and also to identify where your vocabulary is lacking!

For many of you, this might not work! Give it a try.If it does work I'd love to hear about your success stories.