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.
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.
《verbal advantage》是一本特立独行的单词书。 这是一本国外大热的单词书,美国出版,本来目标读者是母语为美语的学生,但被热爱英语的人们发现,特别适合有一定基础的学习者提高词汇水平。虽然只有500核心词,但从中引申出无数同义词,近义词,指明了单词的发音变化和来源出...
评分最好的单词书. 现在看了一个月+, 完成了四个level 十个一组的学 然后做笔记. 我一般会学一些比较魔性的GIF图辅助记忆. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 以 level4 word31 为例子 callow = green, naive, la...
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...
评分这本书最适合用来复习巩固,不太适合做词汇学习的初始材料。 如果看本书之前没有系统学习过英语的词汇(是“学习” 而不是“背”单词),那么学习本书的过程中很容易放弃,因为读懂每一个单词的英文释义都需要同级别的其它词汇。阅读一旦卡壳,就容易半途而废。词汇...
这可能是你的最后一本单词书
评分完爆红宝三千韦小绿等各类单词书,值得一背再背。前8个level的词汇难度基本与GRE持平,最后两个level收词较生僻。
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。
评分这样的好书!大家怎么可以错过啊~
评分神作!太震撼了,效果太好了,奇形怪状的单词们只用听一遍讲解就记得八九不离十,而且是意思拼写读音应用引申义同时搞定,稍微预习复习下就能永久掌握,顺带还扩展了同义近义词,还附赠很多语言知识。躺着就能掌握500+单词,太幸福了,相比之下什么17天搞定GRE单词啊都TM反人类的教学法。
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