English is the most used language of today. Personally, I have been learning it since I was in the fifth grade, which makes it many, many years by now. And it is not possible to learn enough of it: different words and notions depending on a field and a situation, type of text or entertainment, a dialect, not the least, be it British or Australian. So the learning is limitless.
My weekly routine is to learn a minimum of three new words spotted in news articles, books, television. Just last summer, one week, the most used new English words in my vocabulary would become animosity, a logjam, indignation, skirmishes that can give you a pretty good idea of what the world (or me) was preoccupied with.
At this moment, the past week when the world is holding its breath living in fear, counting patients and victims, practicing social-distancing and self-isolation, the words that have entered my vocabulary are containment, to be nixed, to parse (the news), to furlough somebody, a hiatus. They seem like rather useful, good-to-know words but preferably used in other, more positive contexts. As becoming more relevant, they become more and more practiced, this way memorized and at the end stuck in the head. An excellent way to acquire new vocabulary under less than excellent circumstances.
Keep well, stay safe, learn language.
Ventral Striatum 