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.
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...
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...
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...
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。
评分词汇的细致辨析很棒。
评分这可能是你的最后一本单词书
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。
评分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。
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