According to these experts, once you learn these 3,000 words, you can understand 80-90% of English conversations, websites, newspapers, etc. This is a list of the most useful, and most-frequently used, words in English-speaking countries. More importantly, their experts have also created the Oxford 3000. Oxford University is famous for creating one of the biggest English dictionaries (with 600,000 entries). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD)
They have similar books for learning Phrasal Verbs and Idioms, in case you want to expand your vocabulary even further.
Cambridge University (also famous for their English experts) has created a series of books that can help you learn these tricky phrases. To speak natural English, you will need to spend some time studying collocations.
But there is also the question of how to use the word naturally, like a native speaker. You need to learn what it means, how to pronounce it, how to spell it, and how to use it in a sentence.
English Vocabulary Builder (DK English for Everyone) When you hear about people learning English in 6 months, one reason is that they use good books to learn new words in English methodically methodical: done in logical way, using a plan or system. I can identify which students practice this bad habit, because they struggle to speak fluently – even after many years of English study. Some of these books are a bit pricey pricey: (informal) expensive – but when you consider that you will study them and refer back to them for many weeks, months, or years, they may be the cheapest investment you make in your education.īest Books for Improving English VocabularyĪ very common way to learn a new word is to first think of the word in your native language and then search for its English translation (using Google or a dictionary app). If you’re planning to take the IELTS, I’ve also include 3 useful books specifically for IELTS preparation. Best Books for Speaking & Pronunciation.I’ve organized the list into three categories: With that in mind, here are 8 books that I typically recommend to students who want to do extra self-study. I also find that my students who are the fastest English learners are partial autodidacts: they do extra self-study at home, and they spend their study time learning from books – not movies or games. The more time you spend on a poorly designed learning program, the less time you have for other goals and interests.
Not apps, not podcasts, not YouTube.Įven free learning materials cost something: your time. In my own experience as an autodidact autodidact: a person who teaches himself / herself, rather than being taught by a teacher, no other method offers so much information for so little money. Although the exercises are mostly contained within the books, there is an extra workbook that can be used with Volume I.Although there are many ways to learn English, the best place to begin is with a few high-quality textbooks. Most of the materials date from the 1970s but the songs are available on YouTube and at this level the language has not undergone a great deal of change. Hindi Praveshika includes an introduction to the Devanagari script and simple conversations and exercises such as might be used in a beginning Hindi class.
The first-year Hindi course was adapted from the Gumperz and Rumery Conversational Hindi-Urdu Vol.I (Radhakrishnan Prakashan, Delhi, 1966) by supplementing the existing conversations with Hindi film songs, grammar explanations, exercises, and advertisements and other realia from Hindi newspapers and magazines.
Click on an individual book’s cover to download it as a PDF. The Hindi Urdu Flagship is glad to provide the following introductory Hindi coursebooks by former HUF Director Herman van Olphen.