We are judged a hundred times a day by the things we say and the way we say them. Does the impression you give other people do you justice? Most of the desirable rewards of our bustling, cooperative world go to those who win them by effective use of words.
Happily, powerful use of the tool of language is not limited to geniuses or scholars. Any person of average intelligence can enrich his conversational powers, enlarge his vocabulary, banish fear of committing "boners," and be well on the way to mastery of speech and writing in an astonishingly short time.
This book has one major aim: to make you a self-confident expert in the understanding and use of words. It is a unique book in which you won't find a single dry-as-dust rule. Rather, you follow the simple, natural road to word mastery and under Mr. Lewis's expert guidance it turns out to be a surprising lot of fun.
In six weeks' time, spending only a few minutes a day, you can increase your language efficiency enormously. The first week you learn how human grammar really is, how easy to avoid embarrassing errors. The second week you master specific ways of becoming an expert speller. The third week you banish worries about pronunciation. The fourth week you increase your reading skill. The fifth week you enlarge your vocabulary, and the sixth week you increase your general language efficiency.
All this is accomplished by a few simple, easy to-follow principles, having nothing in common with old-fashioned methods of rule memorizing. Scores of fascinating tests and quizzes test your knowledge, measure your progress, and make the learning process so interesting that it has all the excitement of a game. Indeed, the numerous word games are so much fun that they furnish grand entertainment as party stunts.
