My Words is a vocabulary building website that enables you to create and maintain individual vocabulary portfolios by constructing personalized glossaries and assessing your learning progress.

My Words supplies full lexical information (e.g. definitions, synonyms and antonyms, spoken pronunciation, frequency, common collocational patterns, sample sentences, etc.). Games and the comprehensive resources on this site help you to maintain and enhance your glossaries, which can be accessed anytime and from anywhere. You can also identify your vocabulary level through a number of assessment methods (e.g. the ‘Academic Word List test’).

Learn systematically with My Words

My Words can help you improve your vocabulary in four steps:

Step 1: Build your own vocabulary list in 4 easy steps

1. You can either add words automatically from any web site or click “Add New Words” in the menu to add words manually:
   
2. Type in the word you want to add:
   
3. Click the “Show Tools” button for tools and resources. To add a definition or sentence from “Easy Fill”, click on the yellow button. Type in any other information about the word and click “Add this word”:
   
4. After adding words, you will see your colorful word list:
   
   When you first enter a word, it is amber in color.
   This word becomes green if you successfully test yourself on the word.
   The word becomes red if you cannot identify the word in a game or test.
   

Step 2: Play games

Play different games and compete against others for high scores!!

Step 3: Take self tests

Take a ‘self-test’ to see your vocabulary level (on words you select, words assigned by your teacher, or key words, such as common academic words) and change the color of your words. Make all the words GREEN!

After each self-test, a report will be generated and you can see how you performed in the test.

Step 4: Review Your Progress

You can view your overall progress from time to time. The report includes the number of words in your word list, the average mark of each self test and a graph of your average mark for the self tests.