I graduated one year ago this May and honestly I am feeling stupid. I have a great job in research and I’m very happy, but I miss being well spoken. My mom was an english teacher and I always loved reading and writing, my vocabulary was always pretty solid and I was proud of it, to be honest.
I happened to spend 4 years living with a girl who’s first language wasn’t english and my boyfriend is a native spanish speaker so I feel like I kind of stalled in terms of growing my language skills from adapting to being around them (don’t get me wrong, i love them). Also since I majored in a STEM discipline, I wasn’t reading/writing beyond textbooks or lab reports. I took up a PHI minor solely so I had an excuse to read and write. I do also enjoy philosophy lol
I’m looking for a book to ground me and kind of snap me back into real life. I find myself slipping into run on sentences frequently and losing my prose. I had a conversation today at work and struggled to think of the words I wanted to use, even though they were right on the tip of my tongue. I’m putting my foot down, I need to get off this damn phone. I am open to anything really.
by alexis-hg
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Reading anything other than internet content helps. To the degree that I used to get bullied for my speech patterns until I intentionally began adopting the popular lexicon to avoid it. On g fr.
My vocabulary is entirely the result of reading voraciously.