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.
This is a graduated, comprehensive vocabulary-building program for adults who are serious about using the English language correctly and with confidence. Mr. Elster takes you on an edifying and entertaining tour of the language, coaching you all along the way on how to use words with greater clarity, precision, and style. This extraordinary audio course will help you avoid common errors in pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and usage. Every key word is defined, spelled out, carefully pronounced and used in a sentence. You will never be caught in a blunder again.
This comprehensive program is the single best way to expand your vocabulary and sharpen your command of the English language. Best of all, it's on audio tapes or CDs. To benefit, all you have to do is listen!
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我听的音频对应的是这一版,内容与豆瓣上评论最多的那一版几乎一模一样,一些细微处略有不同,完全不影响学习。该走上复习之路了。
评分打算複習VA這次選擇了音頻。和書有細微出入
评分我听的音频对应的是这一版,内容与豆瓣上评论最多的那一版几乎一模一样,一些细微处略有不同,完全不影响学习。该走上复习之路了。
评分打算複習VA這次選擇了音頻。和書有細微出入
评分我听的音频对应的是这一版,内容与豆瓣上评论最多的那一版几乎一模一样,一些细微处略有不同,完全不影响学习。该走上复习之路了。
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