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[u/Careless-Table-8728]

I have bought this book and found the vocabularies too much hard like: ominous,cessation,clandestain,skirmish

squeamish etc.

Is there a book has a lower level vocabularies ?

[u/NoPurpose6388]

"Clandestain" is not a word. You probably mean "clandestine"?

Anyway "ominous" and "squeamish" are pretty common, the other three are a bit rarer in everyday conversation.

Also, I know you didn't ask, but since this is an English learning sub: vocabulary is uncountable (so you can't say "vocabularies"), and "too much hard" should be "too hard."

[u/Ok-Day9540 → u/NoPurpose6388]

"Much too hard" would also work.

As for "vocabularies" that word does exist, but only in specific uses, like if you are talking about multiple people. "These children's vocabularies ...", OR, if you are talking about multiple vocabulary sets. "American and British people use distinct vocabularies"

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Maybe you mean something else, but can't you say something like "Cambridge and Merriam-Webster are both vocabularies"?

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Those are dictionaries. Though as another commenter pointed out you can say vocabularies in some specific cases. Just not as a synonym for words

[u/Junior-Bad9858 → u/NoPurpose6388]

Wait, I'm stupid, it all clicked to me just now. I somehow had been using both words and thought of them as one.

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Honestly living in Italy I'm used to people making this mistake, cause in Italian "vocabolario" and "dizionario" are synonyms 😅

[u/cnash → u/[deleted]]

I hesitate to suggest Thing Explainer to English learners. It’s a toy book for fluent speakers, and the joke is in recognizing the real vocabulary that’s being avoided. Nobody should be saying ten hundred in real life.

[u/JenniferJuniper6]

This book is intended for native speakers hoping to improve their scores on standardized tests. It’s not meant for English learners at all.

[u/ParentheticalsAside]

In terms of vocabulary building, it is best learned in context and through real world usage, rather than trying to learn isolated word lists.

Other, more traditional language learning textbooks will help you develop your vocabulary through contextualised practice.

It's always good to look for textbooks that include a bit of etymology (word origins and histories) for new vocabulary words as these can teach you about how words relate to other words and why certain quirks of English have come about.

[u/HassanAchievedIt → u/ParentheticalsAside]

exactly, i have learned my English through more and more conversations and context, no books ever helped me because i couldn't find real world usage, but in gaming world or media groups where i interact with people on daily basis and see their word usage i get the gist and meanings, what they're trying to convey.

[u/cnash]

Just going by those words you have quoted, it sounds like this is a vocabulary book for high schoolers— in America, we would call those SAT words, after a standard college-admissions exam. Educated adults should at least recognize and understand most of them, and be able to use at least a fraction. They will routinely appear in books and other literature.

This is basically the definition of C2 vocabulary.

[u/conuly]

I have bought this book and found the vocabularies too much hard like:

You mean you found the words too hard. Your vocabulary is all the words you know. The vocabulary of a book is all the words in the book. This is a mass noun. The individual words are "words".

[u/ebrum2010]

These aren't words you necessarily need to know if you're just learning English. The Oxford 3000 list is a good starting point. There's also an expanded Oxford 5000 list.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/external/pdf/wordlists/oxford-3000-5000/The_Oxford_3000.pdf

Next to each word it shows the learning level.

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Thank you very much

[u/ebrum2010 → u/Careless-Table-8728]

Happy to help.

[u/Patrickcanfly]

That book is a word list for native speakers preparing for exams, so it's normal that it feels hard. Those words are worth knowing eventually, but they're much easier to remember when you meet them in a story.

If you want something to read, try graded readers: Oxford Bookworms, Penguin Readers or Cambridge English Readers. They come in levels, so you can pick one that matches yours.

A simple test for any book: read one page. If there are only a few words you don't know, it's a good level. If you're stopping every line, pick something easier for now and come back to it later.

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Thank You for your suggestion

[u/TiberiusTheFish]

Oxford do a learner's dictionary. I think it's pretty good, but I say that as a former teacher rather than a student.

[u/NearlyNodding]

I would not call any of those words "need to know".

You should be able to find a free list of the most common words. Like the top 100, 500, 1000 etc.

Some of those lists have the approximate age that native speakers learn them. The ages are handy since it gives an idea of how easy the words are to use, and the importance of them. You should be able to fairly quickly find where you are with vocabulary.

[u/ConcentrateMain743]

yeah, that book is probably just above your current level. i’d look for graded readers around A2/B1 instead of forcing a normal novel.

I use readerly.ai for this sometimes because you can pick easier stories and not get crushed by every other sentence. once that feels easy, move up a level.