Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 3:46:11 GMT -5
You need to enrich your vocabulary . This is a phrase I often heard as a boy, at school and even at home. But I really didn't feel like enriching my vocabulary, also because I had no idea how to do it. Reading, perhaps? Likely. It's a shame that as a boy I really didn't like reading. In short, I was a lazy person like few others from a literary (and scholastic) point of view. Then fortunately - or unfortunately - you grow up and the passion for books arises by itself, you start reading and reading a lot, without anyone having a hand in it, it's a spontaneous passion, not an arranged marriage - those don't work.
And, as if by magic, the vocabulary is enriched. You discover words that you didn't know before. Now I am amazed that I have never heard such simple words as "inkling", "marbled", "mist", so one day it will Special Data seem strange to me that I have never heard words such as "asterisms", "exicial", "eunasterium", "cenesthesis". ”. What is our vocabulary? Each of us has our own personal vocabulary. Actually two: Active vocabulary : it is the set of words we often use, both in conversations and when we write. It is usually a limited vocabulary. Passive vocabulary : includes all those words whose meaning we know, but which we never use. Everything else is a world to discover.
But what exactly does it mean to enrich your vocabulary? Know the words . Learn them by heart, then memorize them and make them your own. And what does it mean to know a word? Knowing a word does not just mean recognizing it when you hear or read it, nor reading its meaning in the dictionary (because the dictionary is something else). If it were that simple, it would be enough for us to read 100 pages of the dictionary a day and in two weeks we would know all the words of the Italian language. Knowing a word is like knowing its limits, ways of using it, appropriating it - as decades ago I appropriated words like "inkling", "marbled", "bruma" and many others and as one day I will appropriate words like " asterisms”, “exicial”, “eunasterium”, “cenesthesis” and many others.
And, as if by magic, the vocabulary is enriched. You discover words that you didn't know before. Now I am amazed that I have never heard such simple words as "inkling", "marbled", "mist", so one day it will Special Data seem strange to me that I have never heard words such as "asterisms", "exicial", "eunasterium", "cenesthesis". ”. What is our vocabulary? Each of us has our own personal vocabulary. Actually two: Active vocabulary : it is the set of words we often use, both in conversations and when we write. It is usually a limited vocabulary. Passive vocabulary : includes all those words whose meaning we know, but which we never use. Everything else is a world to discover.
But what exactly does it mean to enrich your vocabulary? Know the words . Learn them by heart, then memorize them and make them your own. And what does it mean to know a word? Knowing a word does not just mean recognizing it when you hear or read it, nor reading its meaning in the dictionary (because the dictionary is something else). If it were that simple, it would be enough for us to read 100 pages of the dictionary a day and in two weeks we would know all the words of the Italian language. Knowing a word is like knowing its limits, ways of using it, appropriating it - as decades ago I appropriated words like "inkling", "marbled", "bruma" and many others and as one day I will appropriate words like " asterisms”, “exicial”, “eunasterium”, “cenesthesis” and many others.