Start with Your Interests & Needs

VocabularyShop lets you pick from 98,790 words for your study. You can draw your new words from any digital source(web page, email, digital file, etc.), or choose words from popular word groups.

•     SAT
•     GRE
•     GMAT
•     TOEFL
•     IELTS
•     CET4 (Chinese College English Test Band 4)
•     CET6 (Chinese College English Test Band 6)
•     Common Vocabulary (commly use words in daily life)

Instead of working alphabetically on fixed word lists, you will follow your own interests and needs without wasting any time on words you don't need to bother. Every second of your time is spent on your goal.

Remember in Your Long-Term Memory

VocabularyShop is the only vocabulary builder capable of facilitating the short-term memory to long-term memory encoding process in your brain.  The intelligence of the Study function incorporates the particularity of your brain and the Spaced Repetition principle into your studying-reviewing operation to maximize the encoding process.  Consequently, every word you choose to learn will be exercised properly in your brain to ensure they will be encoded in your long-term memory.

Multimedia Driven Vocabulary Builder

VocabularyShop uses vocal and visual information to activate different parts of your brain to make learning and memorizing new words much easier.  It will pronounce every word you are studying using Windows' Text to Speech (TTS) technology.  It can also read sample sentences, multiple-choice questions to you as well.  You can choose the reading speed and difference voices (male, female, American or British accent, if installed), and listen to different voices from the online dictionary.  You can attach any image from the Internet or from your hard drive to any word to help you comprehend and remember the word.

Interactive Learning Mode

Small kids build their vocabulary fast by interacting with the world directly. They don’t study definitions before they use any word.  They don’t care about making mistakes. The intelligence in VocabularyShop core function will treat you like a small kid. It will interact with you through multiple-choice questions. This will keep you engaged, encourage you to think, analyze, compare, and learn from errors. You will have the opportunity to get extensive information of any word if you make any mistake.

Keep Your Hard Working Results Alive

Using VocabularyShop, your vocabulary is kept in one place, and each word has a super fast, multi-dimensional flashcard under the Browse function.  You can scan through your vocabulary quickly and restore your memory of a forgotten word easily by clicking on that word.  All information about that word will jump out instantly to refresh your memory, particularly when you have personalized information attached to that word.  Furthermore, you can go into Dictionary Dialog to add, modify, or customize information on that word to strengthen your memory further.  By keeping every bit of your hard-working results alive in your memory, you maximize the return of your investment in your vocabulary improvement venture.

Bridging into the Native English Language World

VocabularyShop can bring you into the native English language world if your native language is not English, like Spanish, Chinese, or Arabic.  You may use your native language as a tool to learn English at the beginning.  But you have to use English to learn English and stop translating if you want to achieve higher proficiency.

You can connect to a bilingual online dictionary and use your native language for your notes.  This way you create a bilingual learning environment.  As your vocabulary grows, your dependency on your native language will fade away gradually.  Eventually, you will become as proficient as native English speakers.