English for Everyone: English Vocabulary Builder

by D.K. Publishing

Teach yourself more than 3,000 of the most common and essential English words and phrases using illustrations, a free audio app, and hundreds of practice exercises.

Expand your English vocabulary with a unique combination of illustrated vocabulary reference and practical workbook that makes all of the most useful words and phrases easy to remember. Each of the 3,000+ entries uses illustrations and an audio app to give you a 3D view of the language. Write your own translations and work through hundreds of practice exercises to cement English words--related to people, food and drink, work, travel, environment, animals, activities, arts, health, and more--in your mind and improve your English-language skills. You can use the book by itself or as part of the comprehensive English for Everyone course, and regardless of proficiency level.

You can access the accompanying audio with the app (Apple or Android), or by registering at dkefe.com; from there you can select module numbers to hear each of the 3,000+ words and phrases spoken by native English speakers.

Genres: Language, Dictionaries, Nonfiction

359 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2018

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[otakutyrant · Rating 4 out of 5]

It drained me utterly! I have recored 1505 cards in Anki. Of course this is an up-to-date, essential and pure vocabulary book for all ESL learners, really covering almost all everyday situations, even including some sounds made by animals, and thoughtfully dividing words between AmE and BrE, unlike that antediluvian and BrE-only *English in Use* series which had wasted me a lot of time. And this book is published by DK too, containing colorful and plentiful illustrations as usual.

Recoding those new words into Anki is really, really exhasting. To lighten burden, you can skip some unimportant words, like some cosmetics if you are male. If not in order to read English literature, maybe it is better off living in a real anglosphere environment and memorizing everyday words implicitily. However, you won't be stuck in consulting a dictionary at first when you are dealing with an urgent or important matter like how to find a restroom or how to board on a plane, so you should memorze some essential words befhorehand throught this book, like restroom, boarding pass and so on.

[Prakash Datta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book to learn unknown name of common stuff

I liked the use of good words in the meaningful context. Helps improve vocabulary and speaking power by using names and terms and common phrases.

[Liping Liang · Rating 5 out of 5]

the illustrations are relevant and quite interesting

[bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to systematically make up for the lack of basic English vocabulary words, so I patiently read this book. It was very helpful for me.

[Colin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whether you're a native speaker of English or not, writer or otherwise, this is an excellent resource to have. It's tremendously useful for the visually-oriented and simple to follow.