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My Linguistic Journey

Needless to say, a journey of that time, I started finding more enchanting ways of
any sort is multifarious and expanding my vocabulary. I started watching TV
given the word limits I’ll try my series, movies and Hindi programs (stringently
best to keep the description of with subtitles) on Netflix. During the aforesaid
mine as compendious and brief period I could not watch anything with calmness. I
as possible. This writeup is a was too focused on the subtitles and dialogues, so
delineation of the apotheosis of much so my focus rendered me impervious to the
Siddarth Ananthath my passion for the English awesomeness of the scenes. I remembered any
language. Before starting I’d like to say that the scene with its dialogues and not by the actions in it.
words of this post are not dictated by hubris, In order to prevent my grasp of the newly learned
pomposity, vanity and conceit. words from being tenuous I started imagining how I
It all started with Pickwick Papers I was gifted on would have written any particular dialogue if I were
October 16 2016. Back then my brain did not have to write it in conjunction with reading the original
as many words as it does now. Perusal of a classic one. For me watching a movie became a taxing
used to be an onerous and strenuous task. I task, insofar as that it caused my hair to grow white.
embarked on the journey of amassing and Finally, October 4 2018 arrived, the day when I
garnering knowledge of words from 2015 and started reading Pickwick Papers de novo. To my
when I put my knowledge to test on the day I got surprise, reading it was not as difficult as it once
Pickwick Papers, to my consternation my efforts used to be. During the time when I refrained from
were futile. I was crestfallen. Notwithstanding reading, I wrote many a post to keep in touch with
dedicating a prodigious amount of time to evincing the words I learned. After reading Pickwick Papers
incandescent ardor for studying words and their I found that my writing style is redolent and
structures, there were a great many words I did not reminiscent of the styles of now dead literary
know. After this I could not muster the courage and luminaries.I am now rejoicing in the fact that my
will to proceed. I almost ceased my fruitless efforts. efforts did not turn out to be inefficacious and
abortive.
I decided to abstain from reading much for a
decided period of time i.e., a year and a half. During

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