Suffering from the epidemic of limited vocabulary? Read on!!!

It has been quite long since I have penned down something useful for you guys. Well, honestly there is always a ready excuse, deep with work till neck; trying to stay afloat...blah blah.... but the muse doesn’t take over often here. I was trying to expose myself to a lot of information and assuming some or the other miracle will happen. Anyway people, needless to say, after a long sabbatical, here I come with the gyan :)

The CAT-09 season has already begun and therefore first things first, vocabulary plays a very important role in contributing to good scores, when it comes to Verbal Ability section of CAT. I know not many of you excel in this forte and I also agree to the fact that taming this section could be a daunting task but it’s almost like “now and never” and so on a regular basis I have resolved to expose you to new words in this site. It’s how one says, ‘vitamins, work best when imposed rather than selected.’

For starters let us take a look at a few easy ways, if followed diligently would ensure enhancement of our vocabulary.

(1)Read, read and read: I am aware of the fact that reading is not everyone’s favourite. But with a little motivation and the want to be an eloquent speaker, take reading as little doses of medicine :) To truly begin, you could pick up anything and start reading. Newspapers, magazines even the very favourite ‘Pune Times’ along with its regular masala can teach quite a few new words. Here the occurrence of foreign words is frequent so ‘time to be fancy’:)

(2)Listen to English channels: Time for some entertainment guys! If news channels like BBC, CNN appear like humongous tasks, you have lots to choose from. For example if you are one of the movie buffs you could watch some great ones in HBO, Star movies, Sony Pix , Zee-studio and the list is endless. I particularly could always vouch for this method of picking up new words like ‘weaned, nemesis, sabotage, condescend’ to name a few. You also have some ‘on the edge of the seat entertainment serials. My personal favourites would be ‘prison break, how I met your mother, heroes, friends’ Although 'Friends and How I met your mother' couldn't be included in the 'adventure' genre.

(3) Conversing in English: Try conversing in English with few/ at least one of your friends or colleagues. This helps you to remain in the groove.

(4) Try thinking in English: Although English will always be a second language for most of us, we need to quit the translation which takes place in our little heads. The day we can overcome this impediment we will definitely be fluent.

So you could follow these few easy steps to be the one (read conversant in English) :) All the best. Signing off now and will be back with more.