English Root Words

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown.

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You will find in this book frequent English words that share the same root. Therefore, you will find it is very easy to relate different English words to the common root and remember its meaning. In this book, you'll find a great guide to English root words and how to use them.

So basically this audiobook has a lot of highfalutin, big shot, 52 cent words that are not used that often in normal conversations (or are they?). Once you learn them you will start to hear and see them all the time in books and movies and when eavesdropping on people's conversations. This audiobook comes complete with 366 words, for every day of the year (plus one extra word for leap year). It has word type, definitions, and a funny example sentence that hopefully gives you a little chuckle and helps you to remember that particular word more easily.

In this book you will find the Spanish and English words side by side for better comprehension and memorization. You can add thousands of words both in English and Spanish by learning just the 100 most used Greek and Latin roots. Learning word roots from Latin and Greek helps you understand the origins of English and Spanish grammar and spelling. So, by learning these, the forms and patterns of English and Spanish will become clearer to you. By studying roots, you’re opening your brain up to understand many other languages, not just English or Spanish.

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