Learning how to build a better vocabulary can be pleasurable and a profitable investment of your time and effort. At least fifteen minutes of concentrated study a day on a regular basis can bring a rapid improvement in your vocabulary skills.

This, in turn, can increase your ability to communicate in writing, conversation and making speeches.

Acquiring a large vocabulary can benefit you in school, at work, and socially. It will enable you to understand others’ ideas better or get your thoughts and ideas across more effectively.

Of course, you already know thousands of words, you will continue to learn more whether you work at it or not. The fact is that many of the words you know, you probably learned simply by coming across them, are often sufficient for your reading, conversations and even while watching television.

But increasing the pace of your learning requires a consistent, dedicated approach. If you learned only one word a day for the next three years, you would have over a thousand new words in your vocabulary.

However, if you decide right now to learn ten new words a day, in one year you would have added over three thousand to what you already know and probably have established a lifetime habit of learning and self-improvement.

While there are not any magic shortcuts to learning words, the larger your vocabulary becomes, the easier it will be to connect a new word with words you already know and thus remember its meaning. So your learning speed, or pace, should increase as your vocabulary grows.

<B>Ashveen Kutowaroo</B>