Why is it so hard to learn words in English? I have tried every possible way, and still, I am not learning enough words.

Answer 1

You seem to be highly motivated, and frustrated at the same time. It is totally understandable. Perhaps one of the reasons is that some words, even simple ones, have such different meanings. Think of all the phrasal verbs you know that are connected to the word "break": "break up", "break out", "break in", "break out in." The most highly motivated student I ever had read a passage before the class and looked up every word she didn't recognize. Then when we read the passage out loud in the class, I stopped to explain a word that was either used as an idiom, a phrasal verb or had a meaning very different from its commonly used one. Her vocabulary zoomed through the roof! But that method won't work for everyone because few people are that motivated.