Learning/Improving New Language Tips/Skills

Learn/improve your learning new language skills
 Tip #1: Living in the United States of America for little over 6 years, I have developed couple of habits that facilitates me on learning and expanding my English vocabulary. Overtime, as I sought advise from my English professors, writers, and friends, they all gave me different tips on improving my English vocabulary. As I started reading different types of books, news, newsletters, blogs and magazines, I underlined the word that was foreign to me, and wrote the synonym(s) of the word(s) on top of it that was familiar to me; so when I referred back to the reading - rereading the word would refresh my vocabulary.

• i.e. when I first read the word "benevolence" it was foreign to me, so instead of translating it to other language(s) that I speak and understand, I searched the definition of the word in English and wrote the synonym(s) of "benevolence" on top of it, which means: friendliness, kindness, sympathy.

Tip #2: Try to correct your misspelled word(s) without using auto-correction or what is an easy technique now by "right clicking" on the program and choosing the correct word listed. Correcting your own misspelled word will establish confidence in hand writing and will assure that you do not depend on technology to proof-read your work.

Hope you found this tip (my developed habit) useful and benefits you in learning any other language(s) as it did to me learning English language.

Useful links to bookmark and subscribe to that provides different flavors and styles of writing:
Dictionary.com - http://dictionary.reference.com/
New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/
Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/
San Francisco Gate - http://www.sfgate.com/
Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/






















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