Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words.
He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as "the best survey of the spoken field in years." In 2005 Harcourt published What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions About Language, and in 2006 Houghton Mifflin released the second edition of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, featuring nearly 200 new entries.
Charlie was pronunciation editor of the seventh and eighth editions of Black's Law Dictionary and a consultant for Garner's Modern American Usage. He is a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications.
Charlie has also been talking about language on the radio since 1985. He has been interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered and been a guest on hundreds of radio shows around the country. For five and a half years he cohosted a weekly public radio talk show on language called A Way with Words.
Charlie was born in New York City in 1957 and earned his B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1981. He lives in San Diego with his wife and two daughters.
发表于2024-04-27
Verbal Advantage 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
市面上词汇书汗牛充栋,但内容基本大同小异,很多仅仅是单词和释义的简单罗列,学习效果并不好。今天要推荐的Verbal Advantage是个例外,这是一本相当有诚意的词汇提升书籍。 Verbal Advantage的作者Charles Harrington Elster是一名美国作家、播音员以及狂热的单词爱好者。他...
评分2个月时间,认真读完了这本书,每一个单词,每一个短语,每一句话 不敢相信,发现了一个错误。在第十个level的quiz中,应该是作者的笔误吧。 第十个level中有世界上最长的一个单词, 29-letter, 12-syllable word,floccinaucinihipilification读出来像和尚念经, meaning “...
评分 评分到底要有多大的词汇量才能开始看原版书?单词记了忘,忘了记怎么办?有什么诀窍来对付英文考试吗?这是许多人都关心的问题。 但归根结底,如果你能回答——词汇到底有多重要?这个问题,那么以上的问题想必就迎刃而解了。 词汇之于的阅读的重要性,就好比嗅觉之于享受大餐一...
评分很棒的词汇书,好像光说是词汇书还不够全面,可以说是将英语作为交流工具的再升华吧,400多页,10 levels,总过就500个左右,但是每个单词,由其引申出的词汇就够读书者研究很久了。 作为读者,推荐大家可以先看Longman里面的Communication 3000和Academic Word List,都是最...
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First time in book form! A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselling audio vocabulary series.
"People judge you by the words you use." Millions of Americans know this phrase from radio and print advertising for the Verbal Advantage audio series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Now this bestselling information is available for the first time in book form, in an easy-to-follow, graduated vocabulary building program that teaches an outstanding vocabulary in just ten steps.
Unlike other vocabulary books, Verbal Advantage provides a complete learning experience, with clear explanations of meanings, word histories, usages, pronunciation, and more. Far more than a cram session for a standardized test, the book is designed as a lifetime vocabulary builder, teaching a vocabulary shared by only the top percentage of Americans, with a proven method that helps the knowledge last.
A 10-step vocabulary program teaches 500 key words and 3,000 synonyms.
Lively, accessible writing from an expert author and radio personality.
词汇的细致辨析很棒。
评分单词书我主要看了两本,一本是《Word Power Made Easy》,另外一本是《Verbal Advantage》,还有就是根据再要你命3000背了一些前两本书没有出现过的单词。从教授单词的方法上来说,我觉得前者更有意思、更可读一些。但从对GRE考试的帮助上来说,还是《Verbal Advantage》更有效,因为它囊括了更多的难词。我用程序对比过《Word Power Made Easy》和《Verbal Advantage》与要你命3000的重合度,后者是前者的两倍。但无论如何,我觉得两本书对我的词汇提升都有很大帮助,备考GRE的功劳也都不小。 当然,这两本书不一定适合所有人,毕竟是写给美国人看的书,不是备考的书。但他们对词根的分析和串联,在词汇量的长期提升上还是大有裨益。
评分这是我至今为止读过的最有趣最实用,读完后记得最牢的词汇书!
评分这是我至今为止读过的最有趣最实用,读完后记得最牢的词汇书!
评分虽然不是考试用书,但考G看这本书绝对比红宝更好,不仅仅学到单词,还有更多,词源,用法,等等。红宝太扯了,词根错误,记忆法什么的,只能暂时应付考试,长远来说对英文进步是没什么好处的。这本书是真正提高英语词汇量和水平的书,如果能把整本书里的单词(不光是列出来的)都搞清楚,绝对牛了。还有音频,结合学习效果更佳。目前只读了一遍,还没记全,会不断温习。
Verbal Advantage 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书