[Prologue] Vocabulary: A Weapon for Seeing the Dim World Clearly

[PART 1] How to Express Ordinary Life in a Strange Way

1.
Why we need to look at familiar words in an unfamiliar way
_To avoid further narrowing the scope of emotions, experiences and intellectual world
[001] Yang Gui-ja's novel, "Contradiction"
[002] Baek Seok's poem, "Nun"
[003] Virginia Woolf's essay, A Room of One's Own
[004] The novel of the pervert, 『The Story of Heo Sam-gwan Selling Blood』
[005] Yun Dong-ju's poem, "Like the Moon"
[006] Claire Keegan's novel, 'Small Things Like This'
[007] Kim Yu-jeong's novel, "Manmubang"
[008] Lulu Miller's essay, "Fish Doesn't Exist"

2.
Developing the ability to think in short sentences and single words
If you don't know, you won't have anything left, and if you don't use it, you'll regress.
[009] Bohumil Hrabal's novel, "The Noisy Solitude"
[010] Hermann Hesse's novel, 'Demian'
[011] Kim Ae-ran's novel, "Thirty"
[012] Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Walking"
[013] Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
[014] Hemingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea
[015] Shin Kyeong-rim's poem, "Reeds"
[016] Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, Zorba the Greek
[017] Hwang Jeong-eun's novel, "The Shadow of a White Dress"

3.
The secret to expressing delicately and depicting vividly
_No matter how many words you know, if you don't have any special feelings about them
[018] Jeong Ji-yong's poem, "Perfume"
[019] Kim Hon-bi's essay, "The Moment Alcohol Changed My Life"
[020] Park Kyung-ni's novel, "Land"
[021] Max Jacob, Horizon
[022] Lee Cheong-jun's novel, "Snow Road"
[023] Victor Hugo's poem, "Boas the Sleeper"
[024] Charles Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities
[025] Yun Dong-ju's poem, "Boy"
[026] Ezra Pound, "In a Station"
[027] Jang Ji-wan's poem, "Laughing at My Own Gray Hair"

4.
Just changing one word you use every day can change the world.
_Replacing familiar everyday vocabulary with slightly unfamiliar words
[028] Han Yong-un's poem, "The Reason for Love"
[029] Emile Ajar's novel, The Life Before Us
[030] Essay by Isul-ah, "Anyway, Song"
[031] Lee Jeong-rok's poem, "Preface"
[032] John Williams' novel, Stoner
[033] Choi Eun-young's novel, "Bright Night"
[034] Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel, The Little Prince
[035] Choi Seung-ja's poem, "Early I"
[036] Samuel Beckett's novel, 'Murphy'

[PART 2] How to Express Your Everyday Feelings Concretely

1.
If I can't find a single word to describe my feelings
_Words that delicately express the inner world
[037] Kim Chun-su's poem, "Flower"
[038] Gu Byeong-mo's novel, "Wizard Bakery"
[039] Park Wan-seo's essay, "Even a grain of truth"
[040] Jin Eun-young's poem, "Things That Remain"
[041] Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice
[042] Jean-Paul Sartre's novel, Nausea
[043] Mugwort Essay, "How to Endure the Blurry Me"
[044] Natsume Soseki's novel, "I Am a Cat"
[045] Jeong I-hyeon's novel, "My Sweet City"

2.
How to avoid vaguely expressing specific emotions
_Understanding the subtle nuances of emotional vocabulary
[046] Alain de Botton's essay, "How Proust Changes Our Lives"
[047] Jinyoung Choi's novel, "Proof of the Sphere"
[048] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem, "The Beloved Close by"
[049] Anton Chekhov's novel, "Fear"
[050] Choi Young-mi's poem, "At Seonunsa Temple"
[051] André Gide's novel, The Food of the Earth
[052] Paul Auster's novel, The Palace of the Moon
[053] JM
Vasconcelos' novel, My Sweet Orange Tree
[054] Poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, “The Mirabeau Bridge”

3.
The power of sincerity in carefully chosen words
Words that enhance empathy and communication skills
[055] Emily Dickinson's Letters, "To Mr. Bowles"
[056] Jerome David Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye
[057] Lee Seok-won's essay, "You"
[059] William Shakespeare's novel, Romeo and Juliet
[059] Na Hee-deok's poem, "Blue Night"
[060] Stendhal's novel, The Red and the Black
[061] Bertolt Brecht's poem, "The Sorrow of the Survivor"

[PART 3] How to Expand Your World with Classy Vocabulary

1.
The comfort you can receive just from the sound of a pencil scribbling
The power of words that make us look forward to tomorrow
[062] Charles Pierre Baudelaire's prose poem, "Be Drunk"
[063] Delia Owens' novel, Where the Crawdads Sing
[064] Sim Bo-seon's poem, "Youth"
[065] F.
Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby
[066] Osamu Dazai's novel, "No Longer Human"
[067] Mitch Albom's essay, "Tuesdays with Morrie"
[069] Ham Min-bok's poem, "Positive Rice"
[069] Kim Geum-hee's novel, "Love in Broad Daylight"
[070] Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters, Letters to a Young Poet
[071] Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
[072] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

2.
Using dignified language
_How to consistently follow the sentences of adults
[073] Kim Ji-hye, “The Benevolent Discriminationist”
[074] William Shakespeare Sonnet, "My Thee in a Summer's Day"
[075] Marcel Proust's novel, In Search of Lost Time
[076] Lee Seong-bok's poem, "Music"
[077] Hermann Hesse's poem, "Alone"
[078] Michel Tournier's essay, "Diary of an Outward Appearance"
[079] Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House
[080] Baek Si, Jang Jin-ju

3.
If you hesitate in front of difficult words or philosophical sentences,
The more painful the word, the deeper the thought becomes.
[081] Albert Camus' novel, The Myth of Sisyphus
[082] Shin Young-bok's essay, "Thoughts from Prison"
[083] Christian Bobin's essay, "The Little Party Dress"
[084] James Matthew Barrie's novel, Peter Pan
[085] Emile Cioran's essay, "The Discomfort of Being Born"
[086] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel, Faust
[087] Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken"
[088] Amelie Nothomb's novel, "The Airship"
[089] Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre
[090] Lee Yang-yeon's poem, "Night Novel"
[091] Arthur Schopenhauer, 『Schopenhauer's Words』

4.
Some words change the world
_Until one point becomes a line
[092] Steve Jobs' speech, "2005 Stanford University Commencement Address"
[093] Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi
[094] Hermann Hesse's novel, Siddhartha
[095] Yuval Harari, Sapiens
[096] Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace
[097] Siddhartha Gautama, 『Dhammapada』
[098] Alfred Adler, Lectures on Individual Psychology
[099] Françoise Sagan's novel, "Do You Like Brahms?"
[100] Viktor Frankl's essay, "Man's Search for Meaning"

[Appendix] 330 Emotional Vocabulary Words for Expressing Subtle Nuances
- When you're happy
- When you're upset
- When you feel anxious
- When you refuse
- When apologizing
- When you're tired
- When you feel sad
- When you're lonely
- When you feel embarrassed
- When you are impressed

“The depth of language determines the limits of the world.”
★★★ An immediate bestseller in general, #1 in the humanities category ★★★
A sequel to "A Handwritten Guide for Those Who Want to Write Better Sentences"

There are approximately 510,000 words listed in the Standard Korean Dictionary.
However, research shows that most people use around 1,000 words.
This means that hundreds of thousands of words we don't use remain like an unknown world.
Some might ask, what's the point of knowing so many words? As long as they don't interfere with communication, that's all that matters.
But when we consider how frequently misunderstandings occur due to words, we can never overlook the importance of vocabulary.
To accurately convey our thoughts and feelings, thereby reducing unnecessary misunderstandings and facilitating smoother communication, we must strive to learn and utilize a wider vocabulary.
Lee Ju-yoon, author of "A Handwritten Book for Those Who Want to Write Better Sentences," which became an instant bestseller, has carefully selected 100 works perfect for handwriting to improve your vocabulary.
As you embark on a 100-day journey guided by the author, you will discover diverse examples of word usage, the origins and meanings of Chinese characters used in everyday life, and emotional vocabulary for expressing joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure. As your vocabulary grows, you will feel your world expanding.

If you don't know it, it won't remain, and if you don't use it, your vocabulary will deteriorate.
The easiest and most reliable way to improve is transcription.

For readers who wish to broaden their horizons of emotions, experiences, and worlds while concretely expressing familiar daily life, this book presents a step-by-step method of transcription.
[PART 1] explains 'how to express ordinary daily life in an unfamiliar way'.
To broaden the scope of one's intellectual world, it explains how to look at familiar words in an unfamiliar way and use precise words, how to cultivate the power of thinking by looking deeply into short sentences and single words, and the secrets of expressing delicately and vividly through special appreciation.
[PART 2] covers 'how to express your daily emotions in detail'.
No matter how many words I know, they are useless if I can't explain how I feel right now.
It explains why we must choose our words carefully, by exploring the subtle nuances of emotional vocabulary and the subtle expressions of our inner world.
The final [PART 3] guides you on how to 'expand your world with classy vocabulary'.
By examining the true meaning of words and philosophical sentences that once seemed difficult, you will develop the power to think more deeply than simply using better vocabulary.
And through this deep thinking, we also examine how words used have changed the world.

I carefully copied each sentence.
The joy of recalling lost vocabulary

What if everyday words just don't come to mind when you try to explain something, or you want to express your feelings with more refined words, but your vocabulary seems to be declining every day? It's not too late.
Because writing is the easiest and most reliable way to improve your vocabulary.
Now, put down your smartphone and open this book.
You can also let go of the burden of having to transcribe an entire volume.
Just reading a short passage slowly, copying it, and savoring the meaning of the words contained within is enough to develop your thinking skills.
Just by giving ourselves a little peace and a sense of accomplishment every day, we will become better than we were yesterday.