new words: best way to memorize vocabularies?

[uzair]

best way to memorize vocabularies?

[Haihao]

Forget everything else.

[Jamie (K)]

By "vocabularies" do you mean words?

Note that "vocabulary" does not mean "word". You should look it up in the dictionary. That can be your first vocabulary word for today.

The best way to memorize new words is to read and listen to materials that use the words again and again in different contexts. The worst way to learn words is to try to memorize them from lists.

However, because of the way some language classes are structured, we sometimes can't avoid the task of learning from a list.

Your mind can't hold more than seven new items at a time, so if you try to learn 20 new words at one sitting, you'll probably forget 13 of them. So the best thing is to learn seven, walk away for a few hours, and learn another seven.

Many teachers believe that words are best learned in semantic groupings, such as all food vocabulary at the same time, all airport vocabulary at the same time, etc. Scientific research shows that this is not true, and that the mind learns words better if they are not related in meaning.

[sophie]

Hello,
I've been learning English for 8 years but I still find it an ordeal to memorize new words especially ambiguous words. So could you please give me some advice on how to memorize ambiguous words. Do we have to learn all of its meaning simultaneously? THank you very much!