How to expand your vocabulary quickly and easily. If you are a native speaker of English, Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese, you will find many similarities in some areas of the language you've chosen to learn. Therefore, reading texts, whether articles, newspapers, magazines, books of whatever nature that interests you in the language in which you want to expand your vocabulary will give you a whole range of vocabulary to add to your list, mental or otherwise. The same applies to written matter in your native language, you can "convert" it then double check your translations in a dictionary or glossary. Before you know it you will have increased your vocabulary!

So, how do you do this? Well, with the languages mentioned above, the most similarities are found in words with the following endings and these provide a fast-track way to expand your vocabulary. Here we go:

English:  -tion. How many words can you think of? Try writing 10

Here are the other language equivalents:

Spanish: -ción

French: -tion

Italian: -zione

Portuguese: -ção

OK, not every single word throughout an entire language's lexicon will have such a direct equivalent but that's why you check in a dictionary and it's all part of the learning curve. But it's a good, quick way to learn new words without spending a lot of time.

Any questions? Just ask!