Introduction - Why use voca-builder

Feel Free to Handoff

If you are learning a foreign language, you know how tedious and time-consuming it is to check a new word that you are not familiar with. The full process of lookup and recording can take up to 6 steps:

  1. stop reading if you are not familiar with the word but you know it is really important,
  2. fetch a dictionary or a gadget,
  3. look for the word,
  4. try to comprehensive it,
  5. then you write it down in your vocabulary book, with the meaning,
  6. if you are very serious, you probably write down the sentence as an example.

After all these, you go back to continue reading but lost the flow. voca-builder can do all the tasks, except from 4, for you without your involvement, all you need to do is press F4 key or any other you prefer.

Stay Focused in Reading

After you search a word, voca-builde will first look-up the dictionary database, ususally take less than 0.5 seconds, then popup the meaning of a vocabulary just above the or below the sentence you were reading. Because it is so quick, you don’t have to move your eyeballs, and therefore stay focus on.

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Help To Revise

Whenever you searched a vocabulary, in addition to fetch and show the meaning, voca-builder also

  1. save the meaning to a file
  2. record the sentence you were reading to a file
  3. record the time you lookup at the time,
  4. tag the vocabulary

These information about enables gives you idea of what you have learn and study it, save you time to manually write it down.

Even more important, you can quary your vocbaulary database, and search, for example, if you are prepare an interview in banking sector, you can bring up all the banking related terminology, and study them all together, or you wanna strength your memmoery and wants to remmeber again before you forget, you can bring up all the words you learnt last week, or this month etc.

More how to use it exactly, please refer to the Usage section.

Enjoy Human-Friendly Dictionary

Most of the dictionaries are boring. Take consciousness for example, definition from Oxford Dictionary is

[MASS NOUN] The state of being aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings

The excellent educators in vocabulary.com makes it fun! For consciousness, it has short and long meanings, as shown below.

When you are awake and aware of your surroundings, that's
consciousness. There are different types of consciousness, including
social consciousness, being aware of injustices in society.
The early Latin word conscius meant "with knowing," but it meant a
shared knowledge, a meaning that was retained through the 16th
Century. John Locke was the first to describe consciousness in
relation to the individual, referring to it as “the perception of what
passes in a man’s own mind." If you lose consciousness during the
performance, we'll wake you up with some smelling salts!

You’d agree with me they are fun, and easy to read. We not only know the meaning of the word, but also the roots and how to use it in an excellent situation.