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English Grammar로 유명한 Azar 시리즈 입니다.

Grammar in Use 와 쌍벽을 이루는 문법책이죠. 한국에서는 GIU가 큰 인기를 끌고 있지만, 개인적으로는 Azar을 더 좋아합니다. 좀더 자세한 설명과 표현, 활용면에서 GIU보다 더 많은 도움을 받은 것 같네요. 현재 4/E(Fourth Edition)까지 나와있습니다.

Azar의 Grammar는 3단계로 구성되어 있습니다. 흔히 빨간, 검정, 파란책이라 불리죠.

Step 1. Basic

Step 2. Fundamentals of 

Step 3. Understanging and Using

가지고 있는 파란책의 내용입니다.

그림과 도표가 직관적이라 잘 이해가 됩니다. 특히 조동사 부분의 설명이 여태까지 본 책 중에 가장 깔끔했습니다.

한국에서는 교재로 GIU가 많이 쓰이지만, 미국이나 다른 나라에서는 Azar이 더 많이 쓰이는 것 같네요. 하지만 둘다 좋은 책인건 분명합니다.

난이도

Basic English Grammar < Basic Grammar in Use < Fundamentals of English Grammar < Grammar in Use Intermediate < Understanding and Using English Grammar < Advanced Grammar in Use

Understanding and Using 과정이라고 해도 한국의 수능 수준도 안된다는 사실…. Advanced Grammar in Use는 무척이나 어려운 단계라 일반인은 그 정도까지 필요가 없을 것 같습니다.

주로 미국 및 캐나다의 언어교육원(language school)에서 주로 사용됩니다. Azar 시리즈는 영어를 모국어로 쓰지 않는 나라의 학생들에게 영문법을 가르칠 때 사용하는 수업용 교재 쓰입니다. 그래서 그런지 연습문제가 무척이나 많고, 조금은 지루한 경향이 있습니다. 하지만 책에서 제시하는 문제들을 열심히, 인내심을 가지고 하다보면 어느샌가 자연스럽게 자기 입과 손에서 나오는 정확한 문법을 느낄 수 있을 것입니다. 

특히 Azar 시리즈는 시제 부분에 있어 무척이나 탁월한 설명을 보여줍니다.(위의 사진 참고)

Azar 시리즈가 문법을 암기식으로 만든다는 의견도 보았으나, 저 개인적으론 살짝 햇갈리는 문법들이 있을 때 책을 보면 적절한 예문이나 도표들이 있어 헷갈렸던 부분을 설명이 아니라 감각적으로 알게 되었던 경우가 많습니다.

GIU가 회화에 도움이 많이 된다면 Azar은 토익, 토플 등의 문법에 많은 도움이 될 것같네요.

 참고블로그 :  http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/grammar_ex/message_board/archive/index.html

The sounds of spoken language

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/

-from the University of Iowa

You can learn about phonetics. 

Pronunciation is base of listening and speaking.

So, if you want to listen more or speak like native american, you have to know about position of  lip and tongue.

100 Free Online Books Everyone Should Read

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2009/03/31/100-free-online-books-everyone-should-read/

-from best colleges online.com

contents

Classics

1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
5. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
10. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
11. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
14. Ulysses by James Joyce
15. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
16. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
19. Little Women by Louise May Alcott
20. Don Quixote by Cervantes
21. The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
22. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
23. Dracula by Bram Stoker
24. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
25. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Philosophy and Religion

1. Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary
2. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Neitszche
5. Discourse of a Method by Renee Descartes
6. The Tao Te Ching by Laozi
7. The Bible
8. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
9. The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
10. The Sayings of Confucius
11. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
12. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
13. The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

Politics, Economics and History

1. The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
2. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
3. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
4. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
5. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Plays and Poems

1. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
2. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
3. The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
5. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
6. Paradise Lost by John Milton
7. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
8. Hedda Gabler by Heinrich Ibsen
9. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
10. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
11. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Ancient Writings

1. The Iliad by Homer
2. The Odyssey by Homer
3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
4. The Works of Aristotle
5. Symposium by Plato
6. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato
7. Aesop’s Fables
8. Beowulf
9. The Aeneid by Virgil
10. Poetics by Aristotle

Technology and Business

1. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
2. Professional Customer Service
3. Fail As Fast As You Can and Other Contrarian Business Secrets
4. Beginners Guide to the Internet
5. Web Marketing Success
6. Art and Science of Obtaining Venture or Angel Investor Capital

Finances

1. What Women Need to Know About Retirement
2. ID Theft: What It’s All About
3. Estate Planning
4. Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future
5. Get the Facts on Saving and Investing
6. Building a Better Credit Report
7. Consumer Action Handbook
8. Taking Control of Your Finances
9. Banking Basics
10. Know Before You Go: To Get a Mortgage

Not Just for Kids

1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
3. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
4. Grimm’s Fairy Tales
5. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
6. Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
7. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
9. Beatrix Potter Collected Works
10. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Miscellaneous

1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
3. The Education of Henry Adams
4. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
5. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
6. Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
7. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
8. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
10. The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana