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Открыта: 09-07-2001
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Продвинутый English Advanced English Newsletter #145


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Выпуск #145
 "ПРОДВИНУТЫЙ ENGLISH" 25/03/10
Электронные записки для изучающих английский язык
Hi there. My apologies for not being able to post tips more or less regularly - time is tough, and mastering English is at all not a priority for me at the moment. I'll tell you about a couple of things that can help you learn English on your own, without anyone's help. It all boils down to reading a lot and making notes, unless you have a blotting-paper memory and can carry all you read easily, of course.

Adjectives that may help
You have certainly been taught (at some stage of your life) that in good English an article is always followed by a noun. It is no less certain that you realised (at some other stage of your life) that such a rule contributes little good to your writing. How about always inserting a helpful and pertinent adjective between them? Since the most helpful of them are surely those you haven't yet learned, or those you (think you) know but never use, this section is intended to help you qualify nouns in a little better way than an article can do. For example, 

  1. inexorable (fact)
  2. picturesque (statement)
  3. peevish (egoism) 
  4. scarred and weary (warrior)
  5. intolerable (insignificance)
  6. ludicrous (inadequacy)
  7. superfluous (literature)

Make it a big one
You might have been told that your English should be succinct, and that small senetneces do not look in English as stupid as they look in Chinese, say. I'd rather you accept the opposite, wherever possible, as short sentences may often look dull and dreary in any language. For example,   

  1. [Everyone knows that...] One would think it evident to any of ordinary intellect that...
  2. [Read it carefully.] Do not scamper through 3 or 4 chapters in 20 minutes.
  3. [This is also useless.] But even this desperate device is of no avail.
  4. [I disagree.] So be it, if so it seems to you; to me it has another seeming.
  5. [I like this message.] To me, this message is not depressing but comforting and fortifying.
  6. [Both near and remote.] Whether near or remote did not seem to me to make a particle of difference.
  7. [You may agree or disagree, but...] I don't known how many of you have shared this mood, and to how many it will seem far-fetched and fantastic.
I'd be interested to learn what helps YOU enhance your command of English, writing English in particular. Maybe I'll refelect on that in the future issues.
All correspondence to eenglishproo@mail.ru, and please write (good) English. Thank you.

Warmly,
Andrey Kostenko
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