What do I think about the topic of my daily writing? It’s so simple. I read a book every evening and mark some words or phrases I didn’t know until now, or have forgotten, for checking them in the next day with online or offline dictionaries. These words or phrases should be used in my diary entry. This will fix them in my memory much better, I think, than looking them up and repeating them. Repetition of these terms is automatically given by dictating them afterwards, and not only once, but a few times until the point I’m sufficiently satisfied with my pronunciation and the fluency of my reading.
Let’s start with some examples from my current reading, namely the book The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. First, I was confronted with the word ‘alacrity’, which I had heard before but couldn’t remember. Guessing from the context in this book, I would understand it as ‘not declining’, ‘being friendly to somebody’. The following synonyms seem to fit the situation described in the book: willingness, eagerness. I know these ones; others are a little strange in this context. ChatGPT may give me a good description or definition of this word.
If I’m writing so many words for this word, then I will not finish the article before evening. Now, I am giving an example sentence for all words or phrases where I can guess the meaning with these examples. Let’s start.
“A pea soup is my specialty when I’ve gotten guests for dinner.” (It’s a plant, mostly green if fresh, or yellow after drying, looks like a pearl.)
The next phrase:
“Who by?” The question marker is important. Giving an example: somebody says: “Roger was murdered.” The other: “Who by?” That means, who is the murderer of Roger.
Next example:
“After a long argumentation with him, finally, he acquiesced totally.” (He agreed.) ChatGPT should give me some hints for explaining these terms better.
Well, I beg ChatGPT to look at the content of my text and make some hints about the content, not only about the grammar or the casualness of my English.