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Summary: Not Quite Enough
Review: At first I thought this book would help me increase my score of 650. But I soon found the book lacking in more difficult words. Words such as gainsay and mundane are words that I seem to use in my so-called coloquial language. I only recommend this book to those who want to reinforce their vocabulary or have trouble recalling things under pressure.
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Summary: How To Double Your Vocabulary
Review: How To Double Your Vocabulary Despite advertising hype, no ONE book will double your vocabulary, but reading several vocabulary-building books can double your vocabulary. Different vocabulary-building books have different words and different explanations. If you don't learn a word from one book, you can learn it from another book. Any vocabulary-building book will have many words, a fourth to half the book, that you already understand. You can always skip or skim the easy-to-you words. Varied, incomplete word selection is another reason for using several books. Some books just take words used on past-standardized tests, neglecting other words. Other books, limit their words to words based on word roots, neglecting others. Often authors have thrown in personal favorite words, even if others rarely use the words. If you see a word in two or three books, it's generally a need-to-know word. Cartoon/Mnemonic vocabulary books have their fans who like the mnemonic memory aids, which are useful before tests. If you don't like cartoons with mnemonic reminders, don't buy this book. The main weakness of Vocabulary Cartoons is with only one word and one cartoon per page, these books may only have a few hundred words and are expensive per word. Audio vocabulary books such as Elite Word Power, let you hearing each word pronounced correctly, helpful for improving speaking vocabulary.
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Summary: Extremely Helpful
Review: I absolutely loved this book. Not only have I learned the 250 words effeciently in a fun way, but I also developed the ability to use menomic device for other words as well.
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Summary: Extremely Helpful
Review: i hate verbal, but i love this book. its the only book that has helped me!. Go buy it
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Summary: BUY THIS BOOK
Review: i hate verbal, but i love this book. its the only book that has helped me!. Go buy it
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Summary: Fun & Educational
Review: I have been reading this book to our 9 & 6 year old and they love it. These are "big" words but the kids have fun with them because they enjoy the pictures and easy to understand definitions. The best part is they are retaining the meaning of the words. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Fun & Educational
Review: I have been reading this book to our 9 & 6 year old and they love it. These are "big" words but the kids have fun with them because they enjoy the pictures and easy to understand definitions. The best part is they are retaining the meaning of the words. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: STUDENTS LEARN A WORD A MINUTE
Review: i have personally talked with other teachers who conducted research on the vocabulary cartoon books and the claims made by the authors are completely as represented. Memory aids of both visual and rhyming association mnemonics provide an entertaining and rapid way to learn and retain new words. If there is a better way to build vocabulary I have never found it in my eighteen years of teaching english. Samantha Ann Vogt
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Summary: STUDENTS LEARNED THREE TIMES MORE WITH MEMORY AIDS
Review: I was one of the Florida teachers who tested Vocabulary Cartoon study aids in actual classroom tests in 1997. In double blind tests, my eighth grade students with the vocabulary cartoon books learned three times more than in the control class with traditional rote memory vocabulary books. Both classes studied the same words and were given the same study time. I highly recommend the memory aid format found in the vocabulary books to both parents and teachers. Diane Woolley Port Charlotte Middle School Port Charlotte, Florida
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Summary: Good book using mnemonics
Review: Like many of you, I have used lots of other methods in memorizing vocabularies, and only found that it is totally useless. Even though you have learned those new words one day, you forgot them the next day. It is because we do not make the best use of our brain in memorization. If you know psychology, you know that human memorize by association, that is, you link up a new fact with the old information already contained in your mind. The success of this book is to help you to form association with other English words that you have already known. For example, according the book, the word "Giddy" is associated with an easier word "City", because they have similar pronounciation. Then a picture showing a village farmer getting dizzy with all the complicated roads in the city remind you the meaning of "giddy": dizzy, frivolous. The mnemonic method are based on psychological research, and that is why it is a good source in learning new words. I have tried Princeton Review Word Smart Cassette Programme before, and found that I forgot those learned words within a few days. This book has better methods, and the cartoon makes the whole learning experience less stressful.
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