Increase your Vocabulary

Many times, it happens that we are reading a paragraph and we come across such words that compel us to scratch our heads. We do not understand the meaning of such words and we Google it or refer any dictionary. We look up the meaning, try to remember it and there we are enjoying the celebration if remembering a new word! But after 5 minutes, we even forget what the word was. Implementing that word in daily conversation is a far thing before which we need to increase our ‘RAM'. So here it is.

First of all, make a separate small note book or a dairy for tough words. So whenever you come across such words, you note them down in the diary. You can read any newspaper or any article on internet for getting new words or simply any novel you love. Make sure it contains the language bit high so that you can actually find tough words.

After making a note of that word, see what it defines by using Google or any dictionary. Write down its meaning across it. Note that you need you understand the meaning rather than just mugging the definition. Even if the meaning is too tough to understand, simply use Google Translate and translate the word in any other language you are comfortable with.

But the thing doesn't just end here. After writing down the meaning, all you got to do is just frame a meaningful sentence or more using that word in it.

You also have to focus on the pronunciation of the word. If you know how to pronounce the word, it won't be difficult to remember it's meaning. But if you do not know the pronunciation of the word itself, remembering it's meaning will be out of the league.

95% of the battle is won in just 3-4 steps. But what matters the most is the remaining 5%. No great achievement is achieved without practicing. You need to spend a few minutes in brushing up your mind with the new words everyday. Keep adding new words if they come across your eyes and let your practice grow wide. Of course you can at least spare just 10-15 minutes to develop yourself!

Adding more, there is something I would like to share that will make your learning simpler. Do you use Facebook and Instagram? Of course you do, it is a stupid question to ask! HEHEHE! Well, you just need to search out for pages that focus on new words and vocabulary and follow such pages. That's it! You will stay regularly updated with any new word the page comes up with. So while scrolling down the site, you can just have a look. Hardly 2 minutes it takes to roll your eyes over the word and there you are! You just added a new word in your brain.

Just imagine if you even learn just one word a day, you can increase your vocabulary by leaning 30 new words in a month! Amazing, right? So forget all those cramming up stuff. That is the best way to ruin your vocabulary. If you want to ruin your vocabulary, I would strongly recommend you to cram the words, which would be a futile deed.

Just 10-15 minutes a day, come ahead with new words, practise and enrich you brain dictionary. Now you roll with the words in your speech! Enjoy!

How to read efficiently

It is too common nowadays that many people become victim of boredom while reading anything, whether if it's a newspaper, a novel, a book or a magazine. Many people suffer the irritation that whenever they open the book, after reading a para or two, their hands immediately respond to the command of the mind to keep the book away. The thing they lack is the ‘efficiency in reading'.

When you start reading, the first and the foremost thing you need to do is to keep yourself calm. If you are running a glut of thoughts in your mind and trying to read, there is no way you can achieve focus in what you read. Be cool, be calm. You just need to take few deep breaths before you start reading.

If you are reading an article or a news, first, go through it quickly without pausing in between (this is also known as skimming) so that you can get a brief idea of what you are going to read.

While reading, you need not speak up the words loudly in your mind. This may make you focus more on the words rather than what the author is trying to say. Have a pencil or pen with you and just move the point of it on the lines you are reading. This will help you not to lose track.

If we talk about the learning write-ups, we need not mug up what is written in order to gain the knowledge. You have to know the meaning and have an idea of it. Suppose, if you read, "When piston in the cylinder gets displaced from top dead centre to bottom dead centre, it is known as stroke."  You need to visualize what you read in order to understand it. Here, if said in simple words, the piston moves from one end to another in the cylinder and that phenomenon is called a stroke.

Simple as that! For understanding purpose, keep it as simple as possible. Make use of the technical terms only while representing it to someone. I hope now you've got the point. For more effectiveness, you can write down the main points while reading or just highlight them.

For a better concentration, you can spray a perfume with pleasant fragrance in between the book 5-10 minutes before you start reading. This sounds quite unusual but it works. Sweet fragrance stimulates our mind. It can help us gain focus on our reading.

In spite of all these, if you still face problems while reading, I think you must search for a good psychiatrist in the yellow pages. Just kidding!
Go for the solutions for a better reading, continue for few days. You will surely experience a remarkable difference in your reading.