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Your problems with vocabulary. #1 (permalink) Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:42 am   Your problems with vocabulary.
 

Please do not take this post the wrong way, for it is only my personal opinion, offered in the hope of reassuring those with a limited vocabulary, that all is not lost.

Building your vocabulary should always be done slowly, and in a manner that ensures that you fully understand a particular word, and the context in which (and where) it should be used in a sentence.

Having a limited vocabulary should NEVER be considered as an obstacle to writing an interesting essay. A correctly used simple phrase can be more impressive and moving than an incorrectly used word in a long-winded text.

The simplest of essays can prove to be the most rewarding.

Kitos.

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Your problems with vocabulary. #2 (permalink) Mon Nov 30, 2009 20:12 pm   Your problems with vocabulary.
 

Hello Kitos!

How are you today?
Many thanks for your advice. We really need to develope our vocabulary. There're moment we want to give an opinion and then we give up because of the lack of words to express. :)
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Your problems with vocabulary. #3 (permalink) Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:11 am   Your problems with vocabulary.
 

Hi kitos.
I quite agree.
There are so many people who have a wide vocabulary but they aren't able to write a good essay or make beautiful sentences. Besides, from my perspective, grammatical structure plays a vitally important role in writing a good essay and it depends heavily on how one can organize his/her essay and outline it.
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