MY FAVORITE BOOK…..
INTRODUCTION :
Books are considered to be one of our best friends who never leave our
side. I find this saying to be very true as books have always been there for
us, let it be any book for study purpose or a book for entertaining purpose
they just become a beautiful part of our life. I enjoy reading books. They
have the power to help us travel through worlds without moving from our
place. In addition, books also enhance our imagination. Parents and
teachers always encourage us to read. They teach us the importance of
reading and that is where the actual journey of reading starts in everyone’s
life.
MY BOOK - FAVOURITE ONE :
Well coming to my favorite book is a book which helps us to know the
meaning of each word we read in newspapers or may be what we read in
other books. Well I am speaking about a ‘Dictionary’ which really helps
us to know the meaning of each and every word we read, so precisely
that is the book which I like the most or we can even say it as “My
Favorite Book”. Yes, of-course the reason behind it is very unique
because I believe that when we read some interesting books which are
based on fictions or may be some other books based on psychology and
many more, here I personally feel that before I take a book to read and
start reading it, I should have a dictionary with me so that when-ever I
come across a word of which I am unknown about the meaning I can just
glance through the dictionary and know the meaning of that particular
word.
Well I feel this is a boon to me as far as glancing through the
dictionary is been concerned because this will help me to know the exact
meaning of the word and hence it will obviously help me to know the
meaning of the complete sentence and hence the complete paragraph. As
far as I know, this habit of glancing through a dictionary is a boon for me
because very few people follow this procedure and I consider my-self to
be a-bit lucky because I am one of them who follow this procedure. Yeah,
I am articulating about this word ‘lucky’ because not everyone have this
habit of glancing through the dictionary when they don’t know the
relatable meaning of that particular word and that is where many of them
miss to link and connect the meaning of the sentences that they read.
Though everyone know about this process to know the meaning, but just
because of their apathy and negligence kind of behavior they just avert to
do so and continue to read a book without knowing the precise meaning
of the given words and thus obviously miss to understand the concept.
Here dictionary will obviously help us to improve and enhance our
vocabulary to a very good level or may be to a very good extent as well.
This is because if we develop this kind of etiquette of flipping through a
dictionary, this will really help us to articulate the sentences and improve
our speaking ability of every particular language that we shall tend to
speak. As far as we know, it’s always very important to keep on adding
new words to our vocabulary and keep on upgrading ourselves and that
is where we can actually tend to speak a language fluently and more
efficiently. Yes, we have many different types of dictionaries based on
the purpose of how precisely we want to use it, here are few types of
dictionaries, those are :
1) Standard dictionary :
Standard dictionaries have all the features mentioned above. They are
revised regularly. Some of the standard dictionaries are Oxford
Dictionary, Webster Dictionary, etc. A dictionary is a very good source
of learning and an essential accompaniment while reading literature.
Dictionaries help build vocabulary.
2) Picture dictionary :
A picture dictionary is essentially for children, although there are some
foreign language picture dictionaries for everyone. There are fewer but
more commonly used words, mostly about things that are commonly
sighted. The word is written next to its picture for easy comprehension.
3) Thesaurus :
This is a kind of dictionary which gives the synonyms and antonyms of
a given word.
4) Multilingual dictionaries :
These are the dictionaries that list out corresponding words in two
languages, e.g. a French English dictionary word would list its words
in French and the meanings are given in English. They are a handy
source while learning a foreign language or while translating.
5) Subject specific dictionary :
Some of the subjects have their own jargon which is beyond the
common vocabulary. In such cases those subjects have their own
dictionaries for the learners. The examples would be a medical
dictionary explaining medical terms and a legal dictionary explain the
terms in law.
6) Online Dictionaries :
Now a days there are dictionaries available online where-by we can
type a word in search and many dictionaries can give you the meanings
and usage of that word including an audio pronunciation.
Conclusion :
So as we have come to a conclusion, I would like to mention that each
book has its own beauty based on the worthy content that it carries with
it-self and as we always say books are one of the most powerful
resource we have with us to build our knowledge and learn many things
through it because keeping on learning actively is one way to gain
knowledge and that is why we refer books to be our ‘best-friend’.
Thank You…
