Helping a fellow blogger February 18, 2009
Posted by CLibra in Uncategorized.1 comment so far
Dan, the blogger at UneasySilence, has had is laptop stolen.
He gives more details in his blog (link below), but I’m helping to spread the word so that he can get it back soon and write more awesome blog posts.
Two tools to bulk up your vocab February 1, 2009
Posted by CLibra in Websites.add a comment
There seems to be a vacivity in the use of varied language these days. Repetition has become standard, as subterfuge has led is to believe that certain well known words are sophisticated – how wry.
(I’ve been trying to drop in some interesting words from these two websites)
Verbalearn tests your existing knowledge of vocabulary, and builds up a list of ten unknown words for you. You then subscribe to your own personal podcast, which consists of audio flashcards for you to revise & review your your wordlist, and then follow another short test online to make sure you know how to use them. Rinse, repeat with a list of new words makes for a super-efficient system.
As for SaveTheWords.org, you get to ‘adopt’ a word that’s at risk of ‘extinction’. Basically, you chose a word that is extremely underused and pledge to use it as much as possible to make people aware of it’s existence.
[http://www.verbalearn.com/homepage.html]
[http://www.savethewords.org/]
