Ten ways to learn new words as a language learner Teacher and teacher trainer Svetlana Kandybovich, our latest TeachingEnglish blog award winner, shares her top tips for remembering new words. As a language learner, you work hard to expand your vocabulary. You plough through new words every day, make long lists of words and practise with flashcards. Remembering and using new words in speech is often a challenge for language learners. 1. We remember what is relevant to us. Tip: The British Council LearnEnglish website features tons of interactive videos, games and podcasts. 2. We retain words better when we learn them in small ‘chunks’ (i.e. small phrases that combine several words) and ‘scripts’ (i.e. typical dialogues). Tip: If you are into learning with video, TV and films, try FluentU. 3. Learning is essentially an internal process. Tip: On Forvo, you can listen to native and non-native speakers from different parts of the world pronouncing different words and phrases. 4. 5. Here are a few mnemonics created by my students: 6. 7. 8.
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Word frequency: based on 450 million word COCA corpus You can now freely download a list of the top 5000 words/lemmas from the 450 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English, which is the only large and balanced corpus of American English. Although there are many word and frequency lists of English on the web, we believe that this list is the most accurate one available (compare...). The free list contains the lemma and part of speech for the top 5,000 words in American English. If you want an eBook version of the 5,000 word list -- with collocates, genre information, etc -- you can purchase it for about $20 here. Finally, if you are a teacher of children, you might be interested in two free lists created by Dick Brandt, which show the most frequent sounds in English, based on a cross-match between the 20,000 word list and the CMU pronouncing dictionary: all words, monosyllables. Although the list is available on this page, you may not copy the list to another site. Download this list.
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Depression Quest: An Interactive (non)Fiction About Living with Depression How to Learn English Words Learn English words quickly and easily with these tips and resources. We all know we must learn English words—and lots of them—to speak the language well. A native English speaker knows approximately 12,000 to 20,000 words according to experts. Mother tongue English speakers learn these words over a lifetime of informal daily life and in formal schooling. There are anywhere from 450,000 to one million English words depending on whether you count words separately (e.g., sit, sitting, sat, sitter) or as part of a word family (e.g., sit). We also learn words as part of idiomatic phrases (a set group of words that together have a meaning that's different than the separate words. e.g, sitting on top of the world). So how does someone learning English as a second language know where to begin? Before we look at which words to learn and how to learn them, please note that this website includes many vocabulary word lists and lessons as you can see below. Learn English Have Fun's vocabulary lessons
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