Best ways to acquire new ( academic) vocabulary

For international students like me, vocabulary is most critical part for mastering a new language like English. Obviously, how to remember vocabularies efficiently becomes the concern people like me looking for. As far as I am concerned, there are several ways for language learning person to utilize in order to obtain new academic vocabulary.

First, using flashcards is a real wonderful tool to memorize unknown academic vocabulary. The more times you see words, the more quickly you could know them quiet well since for language learning-process, repetition makes perfect, and also you can use spare time you have to review those new words. For instance, when I was in middle school, I used this way to remember the words that we were supposed to handle in order to pass the English exam. Finally, I passed the exam and got a good result at that test.

Second, it is useful to remember some different sentences which include the words you are going to memorize because you can fully comprehend the meanings of the words in different situation. In this way, you could come up the sentences with words which can fasten your memory and you can use words properly.

Last but not the least, imagination also could assist you handle fresh words. One of the reason is using abstract connection with words and picture. This is because from statistic studies, human can know and memorize knowledge fast by connecting another things which they have already known. For example, I would image that a man who is powerful is sitting on a chair to memorize the word ‘chairman’. 

In summary, applying flashcards, remembering words with sentences and using imagination could help you obtain new words faster than using tedious ways. The most importantly, you should figure out which way is best fit you. Therefore, we can study more efficiently and use extra time to explore new things in your own world.