The first useful tactic to learn vocabulary I used, I presume all of you did, is the Porter Book. I did all the exercises from unit one to unit six. I looked up every single vocab that was unfamiliar to me and wrote it down in my "Vocab Notebook". Moreover I wrote out specific collocations and example sentences.
I used two tactic of writing important words out. The first was writing everything down manually in my vocab book.
This, however turned out to be very time consuming. This gave me idea of writing everything down in a word document on my laptop. It turned out to be the perfect solution because I have my laptop always with me and I am able to revise the vocabulary on the go.
Another useful help I discovered is an application for smart-phones. It is called gFlash+ which makes it possible to turn a google spreadsheet with your vocabulary into small and handy flashcards on your phone. This is an even better way to learn and revise vocabulary whenever and wherever you want because one thing you will never forget to take along when walking out of the house is your phone,
