don't know how to 'Cater their Vocabulary to their Crowd'. Or just won'tfor the sake of pretension. I will definitely use these steps to build my vocabulary! Superb post Brett and Kay. It's interesting (and ironic) that you would bring up the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" as an example here. That book single-handedly changed my life as I'm now writing this post and glancing over at my second college degree. "Politics" aside, I can think of no other man who had such a strong command of the English language and more importantly; the uncanny ability to convey exactly what he wanted to say. Malcolm X was so prolific at the art of oration that he was invited to speak at Oxford University (amongst other places.) This is by all accounts a rather biased opinion but I'm willing to take the heat in this instance. Keep up the good work! Well, I can say that my speech is full of emotions more that meanings, and I have hard time expressing my real thoughts... But I can't say that everything is either awesome, either stupid... I have a lot of opinions about things around me ... I just can't express well... Though thanks for your post ... I think It will help a lot I find that my Kindle is very useful for learning new vocabulary. I have the touch variety, so a simple tap on the screen reveals the definition of almost any unknown word. It's quickly becoming my favorite way