Writing – is the best way to remember vocabulary
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Writing every day has some amazing benefits. But before I talk about that I want to make it clear, I’m not talking about writing an essay, okay? I’m just talking about writing a few thoughts or a few ideas down. It only has to take a few minutes and nobody ever has to see it. It’s just for you. So there’s a few reasons why writing every day is an excellent habit to get into. It helps your vocabulary to stick. Writing is one of the best ways to recall new words and expressions that you’ve come across. When so many of my students have asked me “What is the best way to remember vocabulary?” this is my recommendation. As you’re reading or watching TV shows or books, you come across new ideas and words and you write them down but then you start to use them yourself. You think of sentences and your own ideas about how to use these words. That way you’re producing your own sentences rather than just listening to other people’s and it helps it just stick in your mind. And then you can improve it. Once you’ve written something, you can do so much with it. You can copy/paste it into a grammar checker like Grammarly to help you to identify some of the errors that you’re making. So Grammarly is free to use, I’ve included a link in the description below because it’s awesome. It helps you to see the mistakes that you’re making like maybe you’re using the wrong preposition or you don’t need to use an article when you’ve written one. So I really recommend that you take a look to help you see and realise the mistakes that you’re making and you can also review your own work. Once you’ve finished writing, leave it for a few days or a few weeks, come back to it. See if you can make any improvements or if you can use a thesaurus to look up synonyms and replace some of the words with more advanced ones. These are just a few ideas but getting into a daily writing practice creates so many opportunities for you to apply what you’ve learned or what you’ve seen or what you’ve experienced in English and then review it and improve it.