Boosting English vocabulary

HOW TO BOOST YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY
When learning a foreign language the key element is to learn only the important words, so that the learned words are really useful, e.g. you use them often and/or you hear and read them on a daily basis. Such words are easier to keep in mind as you are repeating them much more often than other words. You are naturally forced to not forget them! There is only one question left: HOW to find the right words?

There is actually a quite simple answer - no matter how good your English abilities are - and Google can help a lot. Just google the list of words that you intend to learn and you will see what happens.

There is an example. I just googled the words I didn't know from an article I read today:

Gigs - appear 24 million times
bailout - appear 28 million times
wanes - appear 1 million times
expariate - appear 6 thousands times
savvy - appear 25 million times

Do you know which of these words I chose to learn? Of course not "wanes" and "expariate". Learning word "savvy" gives me about 25 times more value than learning "wanes" and it will be not so easy to forget this word in the future! It is better to invest time and find more words that provide about 20 millions hits (e.g. by reading another article) than learning the full list.

Of course I do not encourage you to learn less. Its rather a suggestion to invest a bit more time to find the right words to learn. As you do this you could observe 2 effects over the long run:
1) You learn much faster (or actually - you know the words you really need)
2) The "appear"-counter is falling quite rapidly (e.g. As you started to use this method a lot of words on your list appeared 100-200 million times in google's results so you lerned exactly these words... But after some time you can no longer find any word that appear over 100 million times and start to learn the words that appear 50-80 million times...)

Best regards,

Daniel Dusinski