How to increase your vocabulary

There is a great blog written by Patrick McMahon called English for University. Here's some advice he gives about learning vocabulary:

Vocabulary is definitely key to improving your language skills. Despite knowing this, students are often disorganised about their vocabulary learning. If you are serious about expanding your vocabulary then you need to have a strategy about how you are going to do this. Unless you are very lucky, it won’t magically happen on its own. You will need to think about which words you are going to learn, how you will record them, and how you will remember them. Probably you are going to need a note-book which you can write words in and revise from. Here’s a very useful source indeed on vocabulary learning from University of Toronto, Scarborough.

The link he recommends is here

The Longman Vocabulary website

You'll find lots more links to vocabulary websites here