How to improve your vocabulary |
| Case 2. Gathering and organizing your own vocabulary material in four easy steps |
1...Imagine you're in New York, on a businesstrip or just as tourist. |
2. Coming home you get your laptop and you open your browser. You start googlin' to find a nice, comprehensive article about money, atm's, banking in general. "banking terms", "banking definitions or terminology", or "atm getting money" etc. Google will present you lots of hits and it's up to you to choose a page with a lot of banking terms. |
3. Now go and write down all the relevant words you can find referred to banking terms. You can do this either using just a paper notebook or any text-application in your computer. • you can use a pocket dicitionary [Hold your mouse over the yellow area to open two pictures showing how both options work] |
4. Now get your flashcard program and create a new file called something like "Banking terminology". Don't overload your flashcard file: 20 cards per file should be enough: it's better to memorize in small portions than long extended lists. |
| Using this strategy consequently every time you cannot find the right word or phrase, can quickly help you to build your very personal vocabulary. |

