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  • Hello everybody welcome to Let's Talk, the place to boost up your English language skills.

  • My name is Michelle and today I'm going to tell you, ‘how I learned hundred new words

  • in one week’, can you believe that? It's possible to learn hundred new words of English

  • in just one week. But before we find out how you can do that I want to share something

  • with you. So let's look at this diagram, what do you see here? There are four different

  • levels of English, so most people start their English learning journey at the basic level,

  • right? And then eventually they get to the intermediate level, but what happens here?

  • They get stuck and that happens because their focus is only on grammar and they forget to

  • learn new words, phrasal verbs and conversational phrases. So this is what you need to change,

  • you need to think about how you can be the very few who move to the advanced level and

  • not just their that you even move to the fluent level of speaking English and to do that my

  • friends, you need to know some really useful English words and you need to stop using some

  • common words which are a part of your vocabulary right now. So let me tell you how did I learn

  • hundred words in just one week. So let's talk about it, there are some of these words that

  • you can see on the screen amazing, honestly, just, that, next, smalldo you use these

  • words? Are these common? Well I'm sure these words are super common and there was one point

  • in time when I used to use it all the time and then I realized that these words are hindering,

  • as in stopping my vocabulary from growing and that was the point I decided that I needed

  • to throw away, yes I needed to throw away these words from my daily conversation and

  • that is what we are going to do today. Today in this lesson, I'm going to give you five

  • new words for each of these words, okay? And that means you'll almost learn 35 new words

  • in just a few minutes, so imagine how much more can you learn in a week. Now let's begin

  • with our first word which isamazing”. So let's now find out what does amazing mean?

  • I'm sure you already know, amazing is a very common word and we use it when we are surprised,

  • Oh wow! You got a new car, it's amazing”, right? Or sometimes when you're extremely

  • happy, “Oh! You know something amazing happened with me today”, have you said that? I'm

  • sure. But now we need to cut out thisamazing’. Look at all of these sentences, I've got five

  • sentences here, tell me what's common? Just the wordamazing’, okay another amazing

  • and amazing, again amazing and amazing, how does it sound? Sounds boring. And your English

  • would sound basic when you keep repeating words like this. So what I'm gonna do is,

  • I'm going to help you get rid of these words and I'm gonna give you a new word for each

  • of these sentences. So let's begin with the first one. “It’s amazing to see you”,

  • right, don't you say that when you meet somebody after a long time, okay? How can you change

  • that? What else can you say? Well you can say, “it's wonderful to meet youand

  • no more amazing, okay? The next one, “yesterday's match was amazing”, you know that moment

  • when in the match you're just like at the corner of your seat and you're wondering about

  • which team is going to winand just in a moment the game has changed, okay because

  • your favorite player hit six, what's that moment called? It's more than amazing, it's

  • miraculousyes as if a miracle just happened. Okay, moving on to the next one, “your speech

  • was amazing”, now when you hear someone's speech and you thought it was great you say

  • it's amazingbut I'd say that you should say, “it's remarkableyes. So remarkable.

  • Of course the meaning is same but it's just the impact that the word creates. Okay, “it's

  • amazing how much weight you've lost”, so you see somebody after a long time and you

  • see that they've lost a lot of weight, what do you say? Well I'd suggest that you say,

  • incredible’. “It's incredible how much weight you've lost.” “You look amazing

  • in that dress”, now this one is really common. People might have told you or you might have

  • told it to someone else, but now you have an alternative, you can say thatyou look

  • stunning in that dress”, okay? So guys, here are a few alternatives, a few options

  • to the word, “amazingand I'd say that you must add five of these to your vocabulary.

  • So here are five new words for the word amazing, now let's move on and find five new words

  • for the wordwent”, now what does went mean? It's pretty simple, it means to go from

  • one place to another, but it is the past form, okay? So many ways to move from here to there.

  • Now let's look at a few sentences and try to replacewentwith more interesting

  • English words. So again we have, “went to the park”, “went to Singapore”, “went

  • to the malland we havethe thief went away quicklyagain very repetitive and

  • very boring. So let's look at the first one, “I went to the park”, well how did you

  • go to the park? You can talk about that action, so I'm sure youwalked to the parkthen

  • why not say it, right? So instead ofwentyou just say “I walk to the park”. Now

  • let's talk aboutgoing to Singaporehow did you go to Singapore? You must have

  • flown, right? Then again, why not just say “I flew to Singaporeinstead of saying

  • that youwent to Singapore’. Okay, “I went to the mall”, did you take a bike?

  • In that case the best word is to say yourode to the mall”. Okay, now look at the word

  • Ria went to the office”, maybe she drove, quite easy. So againRia drove to the office”.

  • So what we're doing is, we're just talking about the actions we did instead of using

  • the wordwent’, that’s pretty easy. And then we havethe thief went away quickly”,

  • you can replace this too, you can sayhe ran away quickly”, I'm sure instead of walking

  • slowly, he ran away real fast. So this is how you will replace the verbwentwith

  • other interesting verbs, just remember you can use the action that you did instead of

  • the verbwent’. Okay now this iswentand let's talk about the next one which is

  • the word, ‘honestly’. Now what does honestly mean? It's pretty easy, it's used to add emphasis,

  • which meanshonestly, I love you”, okay? We say that, don't we? “Honestly, I'm saying

  • the truth”, but what were you saying earlier? Were you lying? Okay so this means that when

  • you add honestly, you're kind of repeating yourself, okay? You can use some other words

  • to say the same thing, let's find out what are our optionsSo let's look at these

  • sentences and see howhonestlyhas been repeated and this is quite unnecessary, here

  • we go. Four times we've used the word honestly, now we're going to find four new alternatives

  • to this word. Sohonestly this shirt suits you”, okay we can sayfrankly”. Now

  • when you're talking to a friend, you can tell them the truth, what if it doesn't suit them?

  • You could still sayfrankly, this shirt doesn't suit you”, right? Because you're

  • talking to your friend, so it's better to use the wordfranklyinstead ofhonestly’.

  • Okay, “speaking honestly, I love you”, now when you love somebody, you don't do it

  • with a half-hearted emotion, it's the full hearted emotion, how can you say it? You can

  • say, “wholeheartedlythat means with all my heart. “Speaking wholeheartedly,

  • I love you.” Now, “if I'm allowed to speak honestly…” so whenever you want to say

  • the truth, you need to be one thing, and that isfreeso did you get it, how can you

  • replace it? “If I'm allowed to speak freely…” Okay so before you start saying your idea,

  • you can start it with this sentence, “honestly, I don't trust this business ideawell over

  • here you just saying the truth, you can sayhonestly’, but if you think you're repeating

  • yourself, you'd rather sayplainly”, which means, “quite simply”, oh there

  • we have another one, so just look at it, you have endless options to replace these simple

  • and repetitive English words in our conversations. So that washonestlyand now let's look

  • at how we can replace the word, “just”. Now this is such a common word and you use

  • it to fill your gaps, it's a filler word. So whenever you're saying something and you

  • don't know what to say, sometimes you add the wordjustand it also makes your

  • sentence weaker, it kind of takes away the meaning. Okay let's look at four sentences

  • here and we have just here, we have just here and we have just here and here tooWe're

  • going to cut it out and we're going to find the alternatives. Sohe's just like his

  • father”, you could say thathe's precisely like his father”, which means a lot or nearly

  • like his father. Okayhe just escaped the accident”, okay so when you escape an accident,

  • it's always very narrow, this means that you could have almost got hurt, but you were saved

  • so what can you say, “he narrowly escaped the accident”, okay? “This computer is

  • just not working”, let's find out what's the alternative, “simply not working

  • andthey just shifted to Delhiso instead of saying that you could say, “they've recently

  • shifted to Delhi”, because you are timing an action, you're saying that when did that

  • action happen, okay? So you would say, “Theyve recently shifted to Delhi”, which means

  • just a short time ago. Okay moving on to our next word which is, “that”. Now this world

  • is so common, we always use it in our sentences and usually, incorrectly. Let me tell you

  • howSo basically it's not used to refer to people when you're talking about people

  • you need another word, let's find out which word is thatso over here we have that,

  • that and that which we need to get rid of, so let's find out… “I have several friends

  • that live in Mumbai”, no! “I have several friends who live in Mumbai”, yes now this

  • is a correct sentence. Now you tell me, “I know many people _____ work in a bank”,

  • we're again talking about people and you read here thatthatis not used to talk about

  • people, so what can you fill here? Well I hope you got it “I know many people who

  • work in a bank”. I'm sure you got this one right. And the last one, “I know many trainers

  • on YouTube who teach English”, well that another correct sentence, so do remember that

  • don't overuse the wordthatand remember to use it correctly. Okay now that's ‘that

  • and let's find out the next one, so this is the wordnextand we often use it to

  • talk about what's coming after, okay so to say something that that's coming immediately

  • or it's coming after. Let's look at some sentences and try to get rid of this word next movie,

  • next to the hotel, next manager and next videoOkay let's find out what can we say instead,

  • so “I'm waiting for Salman’s next movieno! “I'm waiting for Salman's upcoming movie”,

  • okay? Soupcomingyou could even sayforthcomingmovie you have that option.

  • the bank is close to the hotel”, because we're talking about distance so when two things

  • are near you, could say it's close. “he is the next manager of our teamguess what,

  • when one person comes after another person in a particular position you can use the word

  • succeedingwhich means this person is leaving and another person is succeeding him,

  • which means replacing him. But replacing as you know is not very positive, so it's better

  • to say succeeding because that's a more positive word. And then you havemy next video…”

  • well I would love to use the wordfollowing’, “my following video will be more interesting”.

  • Okay so that's how you can get rid of the wordnextwhich is super common and

  • we use it a lot in our English. Now we have the wordsmall”, again whenever you want

  • to talk about size either it's big or it's small but it can actually be something else,

  • let's find out whatOkay so it's obviously used to talk about something that is not big.

  • Let's look at a few sample sentencestoo small, small, small and more of smallSo

  • let's find out how to get rid of them, “this font size is too small, I can't readso

  • maybe what you need is a lens or maybe what you need is a microscope, let's find out the

  • right wordyou could saymicroscopic”. So when something is so small that you almost

  • need a microscope or a lens to read it, you could sayit's microscopic”. “The car

  • is small we all won't fitso guys whenever you want to talk about space and an area which

  • is very congested, you could use the wordcompactit's an appropriate word to

  • talk about space so when an area is crowded or congested you could say it's compact because

  • it's small and not many people can fit. “It's a small mistake”, you could say thatit's

  • a negligible mistakewhich means a mistake that can be ignored and that's why it says

  • please forgive him, it's a negligible mistake”. “There's a small drop…” okay so guys

  • when there's a change in something which is unnoticeable okay, such asthere's a small

  • drop in profits this month”, which means it's so small that you almost can't notice

  • it, so you could use the wordinsignificant”, say it againinsignificant’. Okay, “this

  • computer is very smallso guys when something is really small, as in an objectyou don't

  • have to just say small, you could say thatit's toyish”. Toyish means almost like

  • a toy that it's so small that it looks like a toy, I can't even believe it's real. So

  • this is how you can get rid of these common words from your daily vocabulary. Did you

  • see just a few minutes and you were able to learn 35 new words in English. So what do

  • you think, is it possible for you to learn 100 words in a week? I'd say you can learn

  • up to thousand words in a month if you take the challenge. So this is my challenge to

  • you now, please tell me in the comments if what you learned today was productive and

  • how are you going to take up this challenge and now find out new words for some common

  • words that you overuse in your conversations every day. Thank you so much for joining me,

  • I'll see you soon in another lesson, till then keep learning and keep speaking English,

  • bye-bye.

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