Publisher's Synopsis
As in any other field, learners who seek to go from Good to Great in their knowledge of English experience the law of diminishing returns and the phenomenon of exponentially increasing difficulty.
This means that it gets harder to improve your vocabulary by a small incremental amount when you are already very fluent as an English communicator, as compared to when you were just starting out. Of course, there are measures you can take to make the whole thing easier. Here are a few ideas: 1. At higher levels, patterns and relationships between words become more apparent: When you are starting out, the lack of a broad knowledge base means that your mind cannot correlate all the contents related to your English knowledge. But once you already know many words, you group them into sections based on part of speech, or similar meanings, or rhyming properties. These things make it much easier to retain the definitions of difficult words. 2. Set learning goals for yourself that are as ambitious as they were when you started: As a new learner of English, you probably sought to learn 50 new words every day. You need to carry this mindset into the big leagues; when you already know 3000 words, you should aim to go to 3050 by the end of the next day! In this book, you will encounter a huge number of challenges that will supplement these efforts and help you, again, go from Good to Great as an English speaker.
