"I am an avid user of your Verbal Advantage program, having listened to it more than ten times. I love it. Thank you for helping me discover the wonder of English." - D. Salerno "I have been a fan of your audio program and book Verbal Advantage for years. I think you should have a second book, with another 3500 words." - T. McKeon "I absolutely love VERBAL ADVANTAGE! You present it in such an educational and entertaining way, I never tire of it." - B. Moffett "You have an amazing, yet practical selection of words. Verbal Advantage has helped to bring my writing to a new level." - E. Clark

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words. He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as "the best survey of the spoken field in years." He was pronunciation editor of the seventh and eighth editions of Black's Law Dictionary and a consultant for Garner's Modern American Usage. He is a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications. He has also been talking about language on the radio since 1985. He has been interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered and been a guest on hundreds of radio shows around the country. For five and a half years he cohosted a weekly public radio talk show on language called A Way with Words. Mr. Elster was born in New York City in 1957 and earned his B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1981.

People Judge You By The Words You Use.
Studies over many decades have proven that a strong command of the English language is directly linked to career advancement, to the money you make and even to social success. To move ahead in your career, your vocabulary level must at least equal the average level of the members of your profession. To excel, your vocabulary must surpass that of your colleagues. Every day, people judge you by the words you use. Rightly or wrongly, they make assumptions about your intelligence, your education and your capabilities. Nothing makes a better impression than a solid mastery of the English language.

With over 18 years of experience, Verbal Advantage is a proven leader in audio education. Top companies (IBM, Microsoft, XEROX, Disney, AT&T) and universities (Harvard, Yale, Duke, USC, UCLA) have responded by making Verbal Advantage an important part of their investment in education.

Program Contents:
* 24 Audio CD’s (3,000 plus words)
* 2 CD Guidebooks.
* 2-Library quality binders.

Program Features:
* Over thousands of words spelled, defined, and used in their proper context for you to gain your Verbal Advantage.
* 23+ hours of listening time.
* In as little as 15 minutes a day, Verbal Advantage audio educational programs can substantially improve your overall vocabulary and communication skills.
* Take your vocabulary skills from a basic college level up to a PhD. level and put you in the top 5% of all educated adults when it comes to vocabulary skills.
* Words are graduated in difficulty.
* Each word is introduced one at a time, with the proper pronunciation, spelling, definition, antonyms and synonyms.
* Each word is used in a sentence or short story so you are able to use the word in its proper context.
* Short quiz - After every ten words there is a short true/false quiz so you can immediately see your level of retention.
* Guidebook contains 99 pages of audio program content. Including vowel, consonant, and foreign sounds with a key on how to properly pronounce sounds.

Program Benefits:
* You become more articulate and colorful when speaking.
* Gives you an excellent command of the English language.
* Allows you to be more competitive in your career.
* Gives you an edge over others.

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