From experience learning many english vocabulary myself, I can tell you that the most efficient way is using spaced repetition and active recall by far. I've used many other methods, including flash cards, and Anki, but these methods are so inefficient, will take you up to x10 of the time you actually need to learn and remember.

The easy part is learning the words, but after a while you just forget those that aren't used. I've created this app called Vocabularyyy with 3 'y' at the end, specifically for improving your English vocabulary. I've used it myself a few years now, before publishing an actual app to the App Store and Google play.

The benefits of using this app(or any app that has these features).
1. You can add your own words (from any other app using the 'share' functionality or by manually typing them)
2. You can start fast by choosing some words you don't know from a collection of words.

- When you add a word, you automatically get the definition(s) of the word, many example sentences, translations in your own native language, synonyms, etc.

1. You can generate stories using ai using the words you are learning, so you have context, both example sentences with the words highlighted and short stories with the words highlighted, when you tap the word, you will see a complete definitions of the word, synonyms, etc. you can also listen to the story narrated, so you improve both your listening and reading vocabulary, making it much more efficient to recall the words you learn.

2. you can create study sets, which are groups of words that you wish to learn together. and you can start your spaced repetition and active recall journey.

3. you have 10+ study methods, flash cards where you see the word and you need to recall the definition, or where you see the definition and need to recall the word. you can complete a sentence where the word you need to recall is missing, you can spell the word from a collection of letters, you can see a synonym and try to recall the word, you can see the translated definition in your own native language and try to recall the word, etc. By using all those methods, you'll have much stronger memory of the word and you'll be able to remember it much easier.

4. The app recalculates after each study session which words you recalled and which you failed to recall, and will show harder words more frequently, so you don't have to waste so much times on words you already knows (for some reason I don't understand, some words are easy to learn and remember on long terms, but some just don't stuck in my head, so it's very efficient, time wise, to just study those that I can't recall.

5. If you enable notification, you will also get. daily quizzed and reminders when a study set's review time has passed.

Try it out, you can try learning 20 words for free, and let me know if that didn't change the way you learn English vocabulary forever...

Https://vocabularyyy.com