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The reader, Anna Quindlen

21 December 2021

twitter: @eugenio_fouz

-shared on @Twitter by M LeMont, @MisterSalesman-

what is literacy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy

@Wikipedia

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‘Perhaps only a truly discontented child can become as seduced by books as I was. Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. There was a club chair in our house, a big one, with curled arms and a square ottoman; it sat in one corner of the living room, catty-corner to the fireplace, with a barrel table next to it. In my mind I am always sprawled in it, reading with my skinny, scabby legs slung over one of its arms. “It’s a beautiful day,” my mother is saying; she said that always, often, autumn, spring, even when there was a fresh snowfall. “All your friends are outside.” It was true; they always were. Sometimes I went out with them, coaxed into the street, out into the fields, down by the creek, by the lure of what I knew intuitively was normal childhood, by the promise of being what I knew instinctively was a normal child, one who lived, raucous, in the world.’

Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed my Life (page 10)

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Dictionaries, stress & good habits of a foreign language teacher

6 December 2020

twitter: @eugenio_fouz

Take into account the importance of these 9 points

1#dictionaries (vocabulary learning plus some sentence examples)

*dictionary.com

**merriam-webster.com

***cambridge.org

2#listening to different types of audios (variety)

3#writing practice

4#video watching (@euronews, @YouTube)

5#learning how to mark stress on words, e.g :asset ignorant / illiterate

asset

^{[ as-et ]}SHOW IPA

SEE SYNONYMS FOR asset ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

a useful and desirable thing or quality: Organizational ability is an asset.

a single item of ownership having exchange value: Our summer home is an asset we’re not willing to sell.

(in intelligence) a person followed or spied upon to obtain information: as a participant in an operation, an asset may be consenting, forced, as by blackmail, or unaware of being used: It was a catalog of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union. Compare confidential informant.

assets,

items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate (opposed to liabilities).
Accounting. the items detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to liabilities and capital.
all property available for the payment of debts, especially of a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.
Law. property in the hands of an heir, executor, or administrator, that is sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a deceased person.

link:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/asset?s=t

ignorant

ignorant

adjective

ig·no·rant | \ ˈig-n(ə-)rənt \

Definition of ignorant

1a: destitute of knowledge or education an ignorant societyalso : lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified parents ignorant of modern mathematics

b: resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence ignorant errors

2: UNAWARE, UNINFORMED

Other Words from ignorant

ignorantly adverb

ignorantness noun

Synonyms & Antonyms for ignorant

Synonyms

Antonyms

Choose the Right Synonym for ignorant

IGNORANT, ILLITERATE, UNLETTERED, UNTUTORED, UNLEARNED mean not having knowledge. IGNORANT may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing. an ignorantfool ignorant of nuclear physics ILLITERATE applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write. much of the population is still illiterate UNLETTERED implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading. an allusion meaningless to the unlettered UNTUTORED may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization. strange monuments built by an untutored people UNLEARNEDsuggests ignorance of advanced subjects. poetry not for academics but for the unlearned masses

The Polite and Not-So-Polite Uses of Ignorant

Ignorant shares a root with the word ignore, one of those etymological connections which appear obvious once they are pointed out, yet remained overlooked by most. Both words come from the Latin ignorare (“to ignore, be ignorant of”). There are several meanings of ignorant, all of which are concerned with a lack of knowledge in some sense; some of these are more insulting than others, and care should be exercised before applying this word to people who you do not wish to offend. Saying “They were ignorant of most of the laws of physics” means that the people in question did not have a specific body of learning. Saying “You are an ignorant person” is possibly describing someone as primitive, crude, or uncivilized.

Examples of ignorant in a Sentence

… the World Series of the wild-card era is the pull of a slot-machine lever, a game of chance ignorant of form. Regularly populated now with second-place clubs or flavor-of-the-month teams more than dominant regular-season franchises …— Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated, 30 Oct. 2006That may be especially true for today’s … 13-year-olds, whose own moms and dads grew up largely ignorant of car seats, bike helmets, antibacterial soaps and childproof locks …— Nancy Gibbs, Time, 8 Aug. 2005

link:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignorant

illiterate

illiterate

adjective

/ɪˈlɪt.ər.ət/ US

/ɪˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ət/

unable to read and write:

A surprising percentage of the population is illiterate.

innumerate

knowing little or nothing about a particular subject:

computer illiterate