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Poetry_girl Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

I need help with vocabulary AND reading

0Hello,02br
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00My name is Indiana. Bulgarian is my native language. I moved to San Francisco before ten months and I am still trying to learn English but I am having a lot of trouble with spelling and vocabulary. Grammar it's easier but I can't read either. I love to read books but since I am here I begun to hate them. I don't understand many of the vocabulary. And my reading is for a third grade level. I can read 01i00Cinderella02i00 only. In school, my teacher tells me to read 01i00Black Boy02i00. But I don't know what does the vocabulary mean. I am just reading the words and the main point is loosing somewhere between the lines. Could you please tell me what the following words mean?:02br
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00admittance, sentiments, touchstone, fraternity, hostility, premeditated, loitering, reckon, extension, weave, roll, spurt, veer, swell and hogs.02br
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00I don't know any of these and I am supposed to read that book. Could you please help?02br
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00Thank you!0-
  

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02br 02br 00I love books, too. 02br 02br 00My first reaction is to wonder why you can't just find these words in your dictionary. Is there some problem for you in doing that?

— Clive

  • 02br 02br 00I love books, too.
  • 02br 02br 00My first reaction is to wonder why you can't just find these words in your dictionary.
  • Is there some problem for you in doing that?
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi Indiana,02br
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00Welcome to the Forum.02br
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00I love books, too. Don't give up.02br
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00My first reaction is to wonder why you can't just find these words in your dictionary. Is there some problem for you in doing that? Or is it hard to understand what the dictionary says?02br
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00Best wishes, Clive
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0Well Clive, I think I get what she means. She's saying that it's really difficult to read a book when you don't know most of the words that are used, for you won't understand almost anything of it, and you will get bored after a couple of minutes.02br
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00I experienced this some years ago, and the only thing to do is to keep reading and reading, so to broaden your vocabul
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Thanks, Both of you!

It is hard for me to find them because I don't really know the alphabet and I have to try to count it every time I have to find a word. And the words I do not know are a lot and If I will have to look every single one, I need more than a month. I am reading a book now, in English class. It's called: Black Boy, But I am having trouble doing it. The vocabulary i
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Hi again,

It takes time to learn a language but, every day, you learn a little bit more.

Your teacher has given you a hard book to read. But it is a great and important book. There is a lot of information on the Internet about it. Here is a summary of it. I got it from this site

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