(Part 2) Top products from r/EnglishLearning
We found 10 product mentions on r/EnglishLearning. We ranked the 29 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. The Things They Carried
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Number of reviews: 1
The Things They Carried
22. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
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Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
23. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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Number of reviews: 1
Bilingual edition
24. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
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Number of reviews: 1
Wusthof
25. Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition: Monolingual Dictionary
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford University Press
26. Oxford American Dictionary Vocabulary Builder (Diccionario Oxford Monolingue Americano)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
27. Oxford Advanced American Dictionary for learners of English (Diccionario Oxford Monolingue Americano)
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Number of reviews: 1
If you find this interesting, I would recommend that might find Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf a fun read. It's interesting because it's widely viewed as the first extant English poem, and also because Heaney does an amazing job of putting the original side-by-side with the English, both artistically as a poem and as a demonstration of the language.
I don't speak German or Frisian, but I studied a bit of linguistics in university and am broadly familiar with the changes that English went through as well as the basic characteristics of more conventional Germanic languages and I found this translation to be quite accessible if you're patient and willing to do a bit of homework. By the time I was done reading it, I'd begun to be able to more or less anticipate the modern English line after reading the original line without too much misunderstanding. I think a German/Dutch/Frisian speaker who knew English would find it even easier simply because the vocabulary wouldn't require switching between Germanic and French terms for the same things and also that the grammatical inflection would seem more natural than to a native English speaker.
In any case, it's a great way of seeing how English clearly is a fully West Germanic language even though our vocabulary is so strongly influenced by Old Norman and French.
All of the big Advanced Learner dictionaries will work for that: Merriam-Webster's, Collins COBUILD, Cambridge, Oxford - American and so on.
However... studying vocabulary from a dictionary is not optimal. I like vocabulary builders for that a lot more: Merriam-Websters and Oxford American are the the two I had used - plus TOEFL, CPE and IELTS vocabulary books. And Swan's Practical English Usage - that last section is a gold mine - highlighting the small differences between words and expressions and whatsnot). And I had found Oxford Collocations Dictionary very useful as well.
And do not underestimate the online resources - all of the big dictionaries are also online and you can look up examples and explanations very easy.
The Elements of Style by Strunk & White
Most books on basic grammar are for young children; older children learn by reading, writing and being corrected bit by bit. I would doubt there are many native speakers who had a school English textbook they thought was very useful.
When I was a child (back in the Stone Age) there was a popular series on TV called "Schoolhouse Rocks" that was made up of songs and video on different topics, including English grammar.
Conjunction Junction
Unpack Your Adjectives
The Tale of Mr. Morton
There are more, those are just some of the more popular ones.
You might be looking for a picture dictionary.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0194505294/
This is a good vocabulary app.
http://www.funeasylearn.com/app/learn-english/
Reading novels is a great way to build vocabulary too.
Here is a wikihow article with practical steps for building vocabulary.
Hi Ivan! If you like military stories you should check out The Things They Carried. This is a book that many American students are required to read in high school and college. I think you'll enjoy it.
Thank you. Is it the right one?
https://www.amazon.com/Collins-English-Dictionary-Dictionaries/dp/0007437862
https://www.amazon.com/New-Dictionary-Cultural-Literacy-American/dp/0618226478/