Be curious…my first story on Medium at com.

Massimiliano del Monaco
4 min readJun 18, 2024

I’ve Decided!

From today, I’ll be a skilled tech writer on Medium! This New York-based platform is truly COOL! I’ve been a member for about a year, and I follow various topics, especially those related to the Information Technology sector. While I have my specializations and expertise, I’m interested in exploring diverse subjects as well.

Medium.com is also a valuable tool for enhancing my hard and soft skills, particularly my English proficiency. Yes! Thanks to Medium.com, my reading ability is continually improving. By reading at least five articles daily, I encounter a plethora of neologisms, idiomatic phrases, and, of course, enrich my English vocabulary!

Let’s remember that English boasts the largest number of words — around 500,000 — far surpassing Italian, French, and German, which have only a few hundred thousand words. This abundance allows for more nuanced expression. It’s like daily bread for Speech Recognition and various language models (LLMs), which always lend a helping hand despite my limited abilities.

In my day, one had to sweat while reading one or more books and extensively using vocabulary resources like the GarZanti or Oxford dictionary. These resources allowed you to understand the meaning of a word and its related uses! You see, nothing was simple! Doing anything well required effort and some strategies to achieve better results and… get noticed. I also try to compare and use technology to enhance my language skills. I often use modules

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