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If English happens to be your second language, you may have a very special New Years resolution this year: building your English vocabulary. 
If that sounds like a resolution that might be too difficult to keep, then check out the following simple tips for making English vocabulary learning fun and interesting.
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You don’t have to sit down long with a piece of classic literature to realize that your vocabulary is more limited than you think.  The wordsmiths of the literature world weave a wide variety of English into their works, and often they aren’t always words that we come in contact with in daily conversation.  That’s […]

Every standardized test that involves vocabulary has some form of “fill in the blank” style question.  In other words, here is a sentence with a word missing; you choose from the following word options to complete the sentence.
It’s a very basic way to check a student’s word comprehension using sentence context.  Showing that a student […]

I have this weird thing with song lyrics.  I can hear music I haven’t heard in 20 years or more, and suddenly I will realize that I STILL remember the words!!  It’s kind of freaky, actually.  It’s like there is this little “compartment” up in my brain that stores song lyrics without my knowledge!
But the […]