TEOFL TOEIC IELTS, word lists and LingQ

There are a number of important word lists available on the Internet such as

The Academic Word List
TOEIC lists
TOEFL lists

See
http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/sublist1.sh tml
http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/members/mutiyama/voc abridge-toeic/
http://supervoca.net/toefllist.cgi

These can be used in the following way at LingQ.

• create a Collection in the Import section called Lists.
• import each list as an item in the Collection
• open them as content starting with the one that has the lowest % new words
• go through and LingQ the words that you do not know
• use "Examples" to find appropriate phrases for the LingQ box or wait until the word appears again in another text.
• if you want you can Tag these words TOEFL or TOEIC or AWL whatever you want in order to retrieve a list of the words you still need to learn.

This procedure has a number of advantages
1) You can immediately input a long list of words that are necessary for these tests.
2) You get a sense of how many you already know.
3) These words will now appear highlighted in yellow in future texts at LingQ.
4) You will now have the words you need in your database for review in Flash Cards
5) You can track your progress in learning these words.

Why not give it a try at LingQ.

Comments

[Max]

Now these are great resources! I can even brush up my native English not to mention the other languages I am learning!

Thanks Steve!