/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10389773]

>read lots of books but my vocabulary never seems to expand
what do?

[Anonymous No.10389776]

>>10389773
Start taking nootropics. Ability to retain new information (long-term memory) is hard-wired/inborn.

[Anonymous No.10389789]

>>10389773
>buy pocket notebook
>write pages of vocab words and poems to remember
>remember tons of new words and whole poems
>one year later
>find my old notebook
>read hundreds of words I had learned but now can’t remember the definition to 1% of them
Being human is fucking gay.

[Anonymous No.10389903]

>>10389773
Just use a page like vocabulary dot com. You can access it from your phone, it's gamified so it will feel like """fun""". It was actually fun for me, I used it for about two days when preparing for the GRE. Then again I actually enjoyed taking the GRE and TOEFL, too, so maybe I'm not representative.

[Anonymous No.10389923]

>>10389773
Try reading in slower pace or less per day but more often. Take more breaks. dont lookup every word, but just a few.

>>10389776
kek. """nootropics""" are just a stupid meme.

[sin No.10390869]

>>10389789
Because what you're doing isn't enough, my friend. I've been in the same boat. You need to exercise your new words by using them in sentences. It isn't enough to just look up the definition and go over them, hoping rote memorization will take over. Start a diary/journal and incorporate those words in.

[Anonymous No.10391324]

>>10389773
Write. Speak.
Like with any skill, you learn from practicing the art yourself, not from consuming the product.

[Anonymous No.10391396]

>>10389773
you’re dumb dude

[Anonymous No.10391405]

Every time you see a word you don't know the meaning of google that shit