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This is a great piece of advice from Phil to construct your own sentences with new words that you have learned and structures that you want to make reflexive, and then repeat them out loud. I have included many common vocabulary items and expressions in the grammar exercises on the platform so that every time you're practising a specific structure, you're also expanding your range of verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs. However, it is vital that you expand your vocabulary in areas you're interested in through reading and listening (as I have suggested above), and the method Phil suggests is the best one to make sure you can use these new words and expressions reflexively.

Hello, I think there are two main categories of vocabulary words: the concrete and physical objects that you can see, and "abstract words" such as verbs, adjectives, adverbs, ... I find the first category the easiest to memorize, You just have to search a picture on the internet to illustrate the word, And we can even make flashcards with them. We can organise them by topic groups. The second category is more difficult to keep in mind. As far as I'm concerned, one of the best way to master new words is making up my own sentences with those words and try to use them. It's good to write down the sentences, and say them out loud as Minoo said. This technique is also useful to study any grammar point (especially the English tenses). And I'm going to try your suggestion Minoo for getting rid of English subtitles when I watch a film in original version...

Thank you for your contribution, Pier. Indeed, it is great to use movies and songs that you like to learn new expressions. I would like to add a couple of suggestions: Choose movies you have already seen in your mother tongue and really liked, and watch them three or four times, first with English subtitles, and then two or three more times without subtitles with one or two weeks between each viewing. You will be amazed at how much more you understand each time even without subtitles. Remember that if you have the subtitles on all the time, your listening comprehension does not improve as much, so limit the subtitles only to the first time you watch a movie. Same goes for your favourite songs. Learn the lyrics (with some translation if necessary), and then listen to them again and again, and sing along with them.

Meaning: Understood or implied without being openly expressed, Silent, implicit, unspoken He has tacit approval of his father behind doing this work.