Hi teachers,
In a classroom, I usually see these word written on the white board. And I also see it in text books.
My friends have asked me what is the difference between them? I told them that word is more general than vocabulary, but I’m not really sure.
My question is " [color=blue]What is the difference word and vocabulary?"
Thanks in advance
Jupiter
Hi Jupiter,
Please read:
1/ How about your English vocabulary?
“Vocabulary” here means all the English words that you know and use.
Vocabulary = All the words in a partcular language.
2/ Word: A single unit of language. Words may be in 9 parts of the speech: article, adjectif, adverb, interjection, conjunction, verb, noun, pronoun, preposition.
Ex: “Jupiter” is a word, including 7 letters: j, u, p,i,t,e,r.
K
Ps: How about: used to ask information about sth/sb
Hi Jupiter,
Putting it simply a word is one part of a vocabulary. For example in my sentence:
there are eleven words. Vocabulary is the collective words for all words.
When you learn a foreign language, you try to increase the size of your vocabulary. You try to add more and more words to your vocabulary.
Alan
Hi K and Alan,
Thanks for your great explanation.
Which one should I say?
One should learn new word everyday.
One should learn new vocabulary everyday.
Thanks again
Jupiter
Hi Jupiter,
I think you shoud write:
One should learn a new word every day. (a) (a = one)
One should learn new words every day. (a) (general meaning)
everyday (one word) is an adjectif and is used only before a noun.
Ex:This dictionary is for everyday use. (everyday = ordinary, happening every day)
Every + singular noun (countable)is an adjecif and is used to refer to all the members of sth.
So, every day in (a) means all days.
You can also say:
One should learn new vocabularies every day.
One should learn a new vocabulary every day.
only if you are genius in linguistics. 
The reason is that vocabulary is [color=red]all the words in a particular language. So, if you say:
I learn a new vocabulary every day.
that means:
I learn all English words in any fields one day. Another day,I learn all French words in any fields.
Can you do that?
K
Ps: In short:
Vocabulary: [color=red]All the words in a particular language.
Word: Article (a, an), adjectif, adverb, conjunction, …
So,
How many words are there in this sentence?
This is an interesting book.
First step: Please list:
Article: This, an
verb: is
adjectif: interesting
noun: book.
Second step: only count.
Article: This, an (2 words)
verb: is (one word)
adjectif: interesting (one word)
noun: book. (one word)
Thus, in this sentence, there are 2+1+1+1 =5 words.
These 5 words is a part of your English vocabulary.(because your vocabulary is all of your English words).
Do the same way, you’ll know this sentence has 5 words.
“a” in this sentence is an article, so “a” is also a word.
A word can include one or more than one letter.
Ex: “a” in this sentence is a word including only one letter.
“this” in this sentence is a word including 4 letters (t,h,i,s).
Bye
Khanh
Hi Knah,
Well I had trouble too when it comes to diffrenciating between the word n vocabulary but I guess I got to it clear now. Thanks… Are u an english teacher?
Sorry… I spelled your name wrong. Thank you Khanh.