Harun and Robeto's essay

Effective Ways for Your Words

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” ― Voltaire. Language is one of the vital important needs of human being. Language is a means for communication, because through the language people could socialize and interact each other. Every language has different vocabularies. As the learners of language, you need to enlarge your vocabularies in order to improve your language thoroughly. There are some effective ways which really can help you to improve your vocabularies.

To begin with, note down some vocabularies that you do not know before. There are so many new vocabularies that are often found in the daily activities. It may be from entertainments, such as from movies, songs, radio broadcasts etc. Also, it can be from conversations with native speakers where you do not always know and understand the word one by one. Sometimes in books, such as novels, magazines or encyclopedias, there are many new vocabularies or some particular unknown terms. After getting those new words, you need to note them down or make a list in a special note book. Be careful not to miss noting down the words or you might actually forget it. The more words you note down, the more vocabularies that you will get next.

After you note down the unfamiliar vocabularies, look up in the dictionary. Having a dictionary is the major solution, because those all vocabularies are clearly listed inside it. All vocabularies for writing or speaking are provided in the dictionary. There are two kinds of dictionaries that we can get in this modern era, manual dictionary and electric dictionary. The electric dictionary is recommended because it is more practical than the manual one. Just install that electric dictionary in mobile phone so you can bring and open it wherever you want.  Do not open your dictionary only for looking up the meaning. The meaning is important but the uses and the pronunciations of those words are also important. Sometimes people use some words incorrectly, it makes the hearers or readers cannot understand what we are saying or writing. Therefore, a good language user not only know what the words mean, but also know how to use, where to use, and when to use the words.

Knowing and noting down those new words are not enough, there must be some practices to really make you memorize and keep them in your brain. You have to apply them in your life, especially in your speaking and writing activities. In term of speaking, you may use those words in your daily conversations, formal meetings, speeches or debate competitions. In term of writing, you can apply them in your diaries, letters, English writing assignments, English writing competitions such as writing an academic article, research, short story or poem. From applying those methods above, you are not only able to enrich your vocabularies but also increase your confidence in front of people.

Eventually, by applying those steps, your vocabularies will increase rapidly. Those steps mentioned above prove to be really useful in improving your vocabularies. As quoted from Dr. Seuss, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”