4 out of 4 stars
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From an editorial manager with a long history in the publishing industry comes this unique, interesting approach to tackling the problems many young people, teachers, and world leaders of today struggle with when it comes to grasping the English language as a whole. Shalom Kumar Sigworth is the founder of Anglosphere Education Networks, a company seeking to educate the general public with "English and personal excellence courses". He wrote this book because he saw a need for less dull English-learning material.
Think of a child relishing a delicious, mouth-watering flavor of ice cream, a bowl full of ice cream perhaps; then, envision yourself as this child. Now think of this book as the ice you're eating. Doesn't this book sound delicious? Don't you want to sit down, right now, with this book, and start learning English right away? If you do, becalm yourself--this happened to me as well--the author of this book has already halfway succeeded in his main reason for writing this book: to make English and grammar learning "easy, enjoyable and, most of all, memorable".
This is not your usual classroom textbook. Filled with eye-catchy illustrations, spider diagrams, ice cream icons and "licks", this book is an effortlessly comprehensible, simplified beginner's guide to the rules of English communication, crafty sentence building, and punctuation. Divided into four parts (Background, Methods, Grammar, and English Communication), the student or any relevant individual, can reference any section of this book not just after reading it, but even before doing so. "You can read this book in several ways".
The author writes and gives examples, illustrations,
and quotes from influential people both alive and long a part of this world's history to help motivate and inspire readers to achieve great things. In this book you can find all you need to know about the origin of English (which, surprisingly, did not originate from the country many people think it did), potential career fields that await you if you learn to communicate in English effectively, adverbs and adjectives, the three tenses and how to correctly write in them, the correct use of semicolons and dashes, and so much more.
There were a few surprises that waited for me in this book, the true origin of English being one. Another being a certain rule about semicolons I never knew, or forgot. There are more than a few things I will take with me long after I store this book away into my personal library. The first is Shalom's magic formula to "Learning English the Ice Cream Way," Sorry, but you'll have to read this book if you want to know what the magic formula is. The second, and certainly not the last, is an easy-to-recite poem that explains the "nine parts of speech" which I intend to print out someday, laminate it, and stick it on my fridge's door. My guess is many readers will do the same.
Aside from all I've mentioned above, I dare not say this is a great English-learning guide. I'll recommend this book only for English-language novices, perhaps for parents with children who struggle at English. Having said this, I'm giving this book an amazing 4 out of 4 simply because Shalom stuck to his main purpose of writing this book: English-learning simplicity.
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Learn English the Ice Cream Way
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