Hey what's up Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime.com recently I got a
message on Instagram from a woman who is saying she is really frustrated because she can't
seem to build her vocabulary and in her native language she loves having deep conversations
about all kind of things her ideas her beliefs psychology etcetera but in English she feels
like she can't even have this conversations because again she just doesn't have the words
so in this video I'm going to give you guys one of the most powerful ways to build your
vocabulary now what am I talking about? I'm talking about reading it has been proven that
people who read more tend to have bigger vocabularies than people who don't read and the more you
read the bigger your vocabulary so this makes a lot of sense when you are reading something
there are so many words right there and you are consuming all of them and if you don't
understand what something means you look it up in the dictionary so that you can understand
the idea of whatever it is you are reading and then the more you read the more you encounter
the same words over and over and over again until those words get stored in your long
term memory remember the first time that you see a word or the second, the third, even
the tenth time the word doesn't necessarily make it's way to your long term memory you
have to see something and be exposed to it time and time again for you to be able to
access that information just like that ok so the more you read the more words you will
add to your vocabulary also another thing for you to think about is when writers are
writing the only thing that they have to communicate their ideas is words on a paper they can't
use their tone they can't use the volume of their voice they can't use body language so
they are limited they are highly limited to that to just the words on a piece of paper
so they have to be very precise with their language every sentence is measured they can't
have unnecessary words there they can't have any words that are gonna confuse the reader
the words have to be precise so that they say exactly what they wanna say and how they
wanna say it the sentences have to be precise so that it builds the correct argument or
expresses the idea accurately everything has to be logical about what they do and the more
you consume this type of language professional writing written either in books novels magazines
etcetera the more you are going to subconsciously incorporate that into your own language skills
so again reading is one of the most powerful ways to build your vocabulary now I have more
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read so now lets talk a little about fiction versus non fiction. It's been proven that
people who read more fiction tend to have a bigger vocabulary than just people who read
non fiction now why is this because in fiction books the author is much more descriptive
they are describing scenes they are describing events they are describing dialog it's a story
so because of that fiction in general has a much wider variety of words than non fiction
with that said though if you are struggling to have conversations in English I highly
recommend that you start by reading lots of non fiction because in fiction authors are
sometimes so descriptive that sentences sound long and poetic and the words that are used
aren't always the words that people use in everyday life and if you don't know that and
you start incorporating all of that into your speech you might sound a little bit awkward
so I recommend that you start with non fiction read lots of non fiction about all the things
you already know and enjoy and use in your native language and then you can tell other
people about what you've read you can even start a book club if you want or talk to a
friend talk to someone else who enjoys the same topics as you and say hey, recently I
read this book about XYZ whatever it is and tell them what you've learned telling other
people what you learned is one of the best ways to incorporate knowledge into you long
term memory if you just read it and consume it that's not as powerful as reading it consuming
it and then telling someone else about it or sharing it with someone else ok remember
that so when I read books I actually tell my husband Renzo I say ok I read a book today
this is what I learned and I tell him the points that I thought were really interesting
to me because I know that by telling him and communicating them I'm going over them again
in my mind and I'm more likely to remember them and I don't want to forget the stuff
that I read because a lot of it is really really powerful so sometimes I even read the
same book more than once actually I do that now that I have the Blinkist app because before
this I literally did not have time and the idea of reading one book I'm also kind of
a slow reader I just would avoid it completely but now that I know hey in 15 minutes I can
have a book read I listen to books all the time which is good because I really am learning
a lot so it's awesome ok so that pretty much covers everything that I wanted to talk about
but now I wanna hear from you if you have any other ideas about why reading specifically
is so powerful for building vocabulary anything aside from what I've already mentioned please
share it with us in the comments I'm sure there are other studies that have been done
that I don't know about that explain in even more detail why reading is so powerful for
building vocabulary but yes lets discuss it in the comments and if you want more help
with your English or if you want to learn about my online courses go to EnglishFullTime.com
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the comment what you think about it ok that's it and I'll see you in another video bye