[Lifestyle] GOOGLE WILL ALLOW YOU TO ACTIVATE ALERTS IN CASE YOU WANT TO LEARN A NEW WORD EVERY DAY

[Akrapovic]

It is a fun way to expand our vocabulary.

 

 

There is a saying that reminds us that "you will not go to bed without knowing one more thing." Well, Google has taken that phrase at face value and wants all of us who use its internet search engine on a daily basis to go to sleep with the peace of mind of having fulfilled that purpose. After all, is there anything more beautiful than going to bed wiser than we wake up?

Within this learning that we carry out every day, vocabulary plays a fundamental role because it is what helps us to communicate better and, the more extensive it is, the more accurately we can convey what we want. In this way, we will create fewer dialectical incidents to avoid that whoever listens to us, or reads, understands just the opposite of what we wanted to express.

Create alerts to learn words
What Google has created is nothing other than the possibility of generating an alert in the search engine, linked to our Gmail account, by which we can tell it to notify us every day to show us a new word, with its respective definition. Something that has been called from Mountain View (and it will seem obvious to you) as the best way to "learn a new word every day".

Learn new words every day.
Google
The funniest thing of all is that after subscribing to this alert system, we will not only receive a word and what it means, but also "some of the interesting facts behind it." You already know, from events that have given rise to that expression or use, to etymological explanations of what the root, origin and even its "use over time" is.

To tell Google that we want to know a word every day, we just have to access the dictionary tool within the search engine and activate the bell that we will see. From that moment on, it will send us notifications every 24 hours with a new piece of knowledge ready for us to consult. Of course, at the moment this function will only be available in English, so we will have to wait until it becomes compatible with Spanish.

In any case, even being in English it can come in handy if we study it and improve our vocabulary to speak more fluently. Keep in mind that in the notification Google shows us the word chosen that day and the definition, and only if we click on it can we enter the full context of the origin, etymology or use over the years.

 

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