Build your vocabulary to sound more professional and confident in your daily life.
Having a rich vocabulary is a great personality and professional trait. Knowing a lot of phrases, terms and words gives you freedom of communication and brings you to the next level. You sound professional to your managers and colleagues when you can operate aт expansive vocabulary. On top of that, it is just pleasant to speak with a person who has no linguistic boundaries and therefore becomes very interesting for the interlocutor.
For sure, you know that to increase your vocabulary you need to read a lot, watch some educational videos or listen to audiobooks. Any consumption of information brings you a lot of useful phrases, new words, and terms. But first of all select the content you listen to or watch mindfully. Do not opt for any low-quality information that might be entertaining but will hardly teach you something new. Secondly, you need really work with the information you consume. That implies writing out or underlining words and phrases, searching their meaning in the dictionary, and learning by multiple repeating. It seems to be a not very exciting job, right? Yes, but it is awesomely useful!
Actually, we’ve mentioned referring to the dictionary in the previous item and now let’s sort out why this is so important. Just writing down new phrases without understanding their meaning won’t be of much use for you. Firstly, you may use the phrase incorrectly at work or in a conversation with friends causing an awkward situation. Secondly, it is really hard and useless to learn phrases and words that you do not understand. We mostly memorize them by associating them with some concepts or notions and in the case, the meaning is not clear, such memorizing technique is not the option.
Do not stick to the same subjects, books, and videos. Vary your information sources. Challenge yourself with new topics to enrich your vocabulary, thoughts, and ideas. You may not like it at first, but try to step outside the comfort zone and find new topics that encourage your learning and are interesting for you.
Do not forget that repeating is the key to memorizing all you’ve learned. Repeat the phrases while commuting to work, waiting in a traffic jam, or at lunchtime. Try to use new words in your everyday conversations with family and friends. Practice is the best way to make this lexicon your everyday habit.