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.
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【帖前声明】:提升单词量和掌握精深程度的终极武器当然是阅读(如专业文献及英美的报纸杂志等),这里只是针对那些想要找些高品质的词汇书来学习的朋友做些介绍。 大家当时为了考G,一路红宝和再要你命三千背下来,单词量想必有了不小的提升,但是背单词这件事儿,用句俗话讲...
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 “...
很好的词汇书,每个词都有情境和用法举例,有辨析,有同义词,有正确读音强调,有小测验,后面会反复提示前面学过的词,读起来很有趣味。遗憾的是,跟哲学史一样看到第二章就忘了第一章,刷一遍记不住
评分读一次是不够的!!
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!
评分渣JD把书给我发错了 今天才到 #比什么红宝书绿宝书高到哪里去了,看完肯定可以和Economist谈笑风生
评分#实践证明对付急阿姨不能指望这本书。。。
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