<p>also i would suggest 'word power made easy' by norman lewis.
Its great if u wanna improve ur vocab and give these competitive exams.</p>
<p>Read East of Eden by John Steinbeck. In fact nearly anything by Steinbeck is good but that's my personal favorite.</p>
<p>Completely stop speaking, reading and writing in your native language for at least a year. That will help you get used to the language, and start thinking in the "English" mode. Start making friends with native speakers (or at least, anyone who does not speak your language), and STOP making friends with the ones that come from your country (if possible but not really recommended, drift away from the ones that you already have). Last, but not least, make love with dictionary.com, and be comfortable with it.</p>
<p>Dictionary.com sucks...m-w.com is where the party's at. ;)</p>
<p>edit: yes, I'm a dictionary elitist...</p>
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Yea thats very essential and maybe the toughest part!</p>
<p>if you are tying to improve on writing style, try jane austen (esp. pride and prejudice). If you can stand the first few pages, the rest of the novel flows.</p>
<p>^ yeah all jane austen books are hard to focus on. They are such a drab!</p>
<p>If you want to improve your vocab (not grammer), try Word Smart from Princeton Review. It's a set of vocab cd's (5) and this guy and this girl uses all the most popped-up SAT vocabs. It's interesting.. well they make it interesting.. it's kinda intersting. Just put it in your cd thing in the car and when you're going to school, anywhere, just listen while you drive. It kind of works i think...</p>
<p>But that's only if you want to learn vocabs. No grammer involved there. Unless you want to listen to the man and women talk..</p>