Hi friends in this video you're gonna learn how to do really, really well on the vocabulary questions on the
Duolingo English Test. For these questions you need to select and click on the real English words like this,
you click on the real ones and you ignore the ones that are not real. A question I get asked a lot is What is a
real word? Well, don't overthink it. A real word is simply a word with a meaning. For example, this word
here means this maybe a more difficult word would be this one dismay, which means to have deep concern about
something both of these are real words because they have a meaning some words which are not real or fake
might be these ones here we have valatie trovan These words they look and sound like real English words, but
they are not real because they have no meaning. They're just to keep it simple. A real word is a word which has
a meaning attached to it. So now you know what do you lingo mean by a real word? Now let's take a look at
some tips to help you succeed on vocabulary question types. Number one, don't guess only select the words
you know, the reason why I say don't guess is because it's actually impossible to guess. If you look at these
words, again, these could be real English words because they do follow the correct English spelling rules and
the pronunciation rules as well but they're not real because there's no meaning attached to them. So it's
actually impossible to guess. So my first suggestion is for you to only select the words you actually know are
real because you know the meaning of them. Also don't select all of the words because you will lose points if
you choose words which are not real. So don't guess just choose the words you know are real English words.
All word categories are considered real. For example, swim swam swims. So all verb categories, like in this
example, but also all different words adjectives, adverbs conjunctions, any word can come up in the list,
so go through it carefully and select all the words which have a meaning. Number three is to build your
vocabulary. The best way to prepare for these question types is to keep learning new words. You can learn new
words by going through topic related vocabulary. For example, here, you might think of a topic like
technology and then learn lots of words based on that topic. Another way to build your vocabulary is to learn
affixes. affixes are parts of words which come at the start or at the end of a word. For example, a prefix
comes at the start, like re dis over into, and suffixes come at the end like tion meant age all learning vocab
related to topics or with affixes is a good way. You could also study large word lists to test yourself,
such as the ones you can find on the Oxford Learner's Dictionary here. This is a fantastic word list you can
go through just to recap or learn new words. Another way to prepare for this question type is to practice
with a time limit. For both of these question types, you don't get long to go through the lists and choose
the real words. So being able to practice with a time limit and improve your speed is important. For this, I
recommend you visit our website d t ready.com. And practice with our practice platform. Like I said, you
can practice with the correct time limit and check your answers immediately. Also, we have a dictionary
function so you can learn the words you did not know you can learn the definition and by clicking the
speaker, you can learn the pronunciation. Because a lot of times when someone learns a new word, they just
learned the spelling and how it's written out. They don't learn how it's pronounced. But of course, English
pronunciation and spelling rules don't match always. So it's very important for you to learn the pronunciation
of new words your learning again, our practice platform on dTT ready will help you with that. Next tip is to
always take your time and double check your answers. And you can change your answer if needed. Even though
the time limit is quite short, it's still really important for you to double check. Even for me when I
do this question type. I always have to double check because I do miss words. So take your time double check
and you can change your answers as many times as you want to as long as it's within the time limit. So those
were some tips. Now let's jump into some practice.
The practice if you're still watching this video put a heart emoji below in the comments to let me know I'm
always wondering who watches these videos all the way to the end. Now I recommend you watch this video here
because it will help you with your Duolingo test speaking that's very important. So I'll see you in this
video. Bye