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.
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...
评分单词是坎。英文不懂,多半是单词不懂。学(不用“背”字)单词,难,意义难,用法难,数量更让人难。词根法就是管理复杂度的方法(我不想说它是“捷径”,但却有点忍不住想说“正确的方法”)。 仅考虑被动单词量,记单词,即训练自己能够从单词的拼写反应到单词的意义。词典可...
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 “...
评分看这本书的时候,一直在患得患失——害怕看完了,就再也无法期待如此好书了。事实证明:我想多了。反反复复看了三年、书都看烂了两本,还是觉得很多东西都记不下来。可能要一直看下去了。 但是还是觉得自己有很大的进步。因为遇到美国人的时候,我能说一些甚至连他们都不能说的...
读完一本成为这个会自嘲会坚持观点的作者的脑残粉,而且让我狠狠地检讨了一下自己对语言模糊学习的态度。编排方面最棒的部分是同反和读音纠正。值得一读再读一读再读一读再读。
评分这本书真是太好了,外国人写的书就是好,死记硬背单词是不行的,这本书让我由衷地感到了英文的美。。。
评分在台湾诚品买的 当年英语六级磕磕巴巴过的 竟然敢挑战这本书 当然啦 没有坚持下去
评分这样的好书!大家怎么可以错过啊~
评分爽!词汇上升到一个新的境界绝非妄言。最有效的一点是作者通过各种手段不厌其烦地重复讲解过的词汇,在阅读过程中自然而然就能得到很好的巩固。虽然此书不是为GRE考试撰写,但包含的高级词汇和GRE考试高度重合,GRE单词掌握到70%+再刷这本书,效果极佳。
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