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AL_aSeeR Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

How can I improve my vocabulary?

Greetings,

I have started learning english since I was in the intermediate school. I can write, listen and speak quite good. However, I am facing difficulty with vocabulary as I don't understand most things I read, listen and very often I face problems expressing my thoughts and ideas. This feeling makes me depressed and sad and I just want to overcome such weakness.

I tried to read some books but I failed because I get bored very soon since I refer to the dictionary more than 20 times just to read one page! I tried to watch english movies without translation and I just understand few things through the actions and events.

What do you advise me to do in order to go over this nightmare?

Thanks in advance...

Regards,
aL_aSeeR
  

Top answer

You are looking at it wrongly! You have written a phrased you question well. There will always be words that you don't understand - that even happens when English people read a book.

— Dave Phillips

  • You are looking at it wrongly!
  • You have written a phrased you question well.
  • There will always be words that you don't understand - that even happens when English people read a book.
  • You are trying to 'bottom up read' which means that you want to understand every word before you understand the meaning.
  • In your native language you read the title, then your brain thinks about everything you know about that subject before you read.
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You are looking at it wrongly! You have written a phrased you question well. There will always be words that you don't understand - that even happens when English people read a book. You are trying to 'bottom up read' which means that you want to understand every word before you understand the meaning. In your native language you read the title, then your brain thinks about everything you kno
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Aslam al_aSeeR

I m an english teacher in Turkey.indeed i had memorized many words and have a good grammer in english it is not enough to talk.Although if u have many words in your mind it wont be a solution to your problem.The thing that you can come over from this problem is try to speak with one whose native languge is English or whose english is very fluent.May be u can go abroad f
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Dave,

First of all, thanks a lot for your advice. I do agree with you in most of your stated points. However, I don't think that my problem is a technique issue rather than weak vocab. The reason I am saying this is that I am having difficulty understanding the meaning of text because of the large number of new words to me! So, could it be that I started reading the wrong type of book? I
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Wa-Alaikum Alsalam efsun_42,

As most people around me are speaking Arabic, it is kind of impossible to practice English with anyone. Online audio or video conferencing would help a lot but I always feel shy because I don't know what to say to someone that I don't know. This is in fact one of the reasons I registered in this forum and I hope that I can find someone to chat with.

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It is a bit difficult for us to recommend books for you to read. Firstly they have to be of interest to you. Secondly we can't really guess your level. We have lots of member on this site that go through all the news websites then post questions on the parts they don't understand. This might be more interesting to you as there are subtleties in the language by using a different tense or word
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