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Lost? Here’s Your Map For A Bigger Vocabulary

October 23, 2016 by Ryan Viguerie

This is my neighborhood in Prague.

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Notice the two tourists looking at the giant map?

Like a lot of European capitals, we get a lot of tourists.

And in addition, because this isn’t Manhattan…

Streets of New York
Streets of New York

 

And the streets are a little…

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Streets of Prague.

Confusing…

We end up with a lot of lost tourists.

(Also, I don’t know which genius bureaucrat decided to write the tourists signs in Czech, but they don’t help!)

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Back to the map…

See anything that’s missing?

Here’s a closer look.

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How about this?

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That could be useful, right?

If you want to walk from here to there, you have to know two things: “there” and “here.”

A Map For English?

What would a map for English look like?

For vocabulary, I think this is pretty good:

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This is your map for a bigger vocabulary.

So where is “there” for you?

Is it 2,800 words — you want to understand regular conversation?

Or is it 4,500 — you want to read “The Financial Times”?

Once you know that, you can ask “Where am I?” “Where is my ‘here’”?

Do you know the “Core Vocabulary” yet? What I call the “Super Words”?

You can quickly find out by downloading my simplified checklist here.

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