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  • Hey everybody, welcome back to Let's Talk and you are with me Meera. Well guys, I really

  • think that sometimes we take education and learning so seriously that we forget the fun

  • in it. Well today I'm trying to get the fun back in learning English, how? Today I have

  • got certain words for you which are from around the world, yes you heard me right, English

  • has apparently borrowed a lot of words that we use in our daily conversations that are

  • from around the world and today we are going to learn some of them, so that you are confident

  • the next time when you want to use any of these words in the right situation, alright?

  • So let's get started, I'm pretty excited for this lesson because I think, having fun while

  • learning is so important. Okay let's get going, the first word isArsenal”. Any guesses,

  • what this could mean? Yes of course, I know some of you're saying it's a football club,

  • all of us know that. Well today you're going to learn what the word Arsenal means, it's

  • a French word that's something that we should know, right? Since we're talking about words

  • from around the world, this has a French origin and what does it mean? It means, ‘a collection

  • of things’. A Collection of things, which people usually use as resources, something

  • that they can rely on, something that they can use. Now for example, “she has an arsenal

  • of makeupthat means I am saying that she has a huge collection of makeup products that

  • she can use. Well in the business world they often use this word in something like this

  • for example, “they say he has an arsenal of people working for him”, right? That

  • means they are saying, he has a lot of people who are his resources and who work tirelessly

  • for him, right? So Arsenal means, a collection of things used as resources, okay? Now next

  • word isZombie”. Yes, now try and guess, what is the origin of this word? Of course

  • not movies, this word has its origins from the West Indies, West Indies… I'm sure you

  • guys did not guess this one. but yes we know them as creatures of the day and night and

  • they try and feed on anything that is living and they sort of multiply but we are going

  • to use this word in our daily conversations in English, how? Well you can use this for

  • a situation when you haven't slept for days and you haven't eaten anything and you just

  • feel so exhausted, so tired, famished as well you're so hungry and that is the time you

  • say, “oh my god! I feel like a zombie, I need food”, right? So this is for a person

  • who hasn't slept or eaten anything right, he's definitely feeling like a zombie and

  • looking like a zombie with dark circles and droopy eyes, okay? So you can say, “You

  • need to go home now you look like a zombie”. “Stop working or stop watching so much of

  • GOT day and night, you're looking like a zombie”, alright? Next time you see someone looking

  • like that, offer them a couch to rest or food to eat so that they feel better, okay? Let's

  • quickly move on guys, this word isPaparazzi”. Well quickly try and say it with me, paparazzi,

  • well you should know that this is an Italian origin word, yesit's Italiano, Italian

  • origin word and this is the plural form ofpaparazzo’. Now paparazzi what do they,

  • what does that mean? They mean, it means that, a bunch of photographers, right? I said plural,

  • okay? So paparazzi are a bunch of photographers who particularly click celebrity pictures,

  • yes that's, theyre the people because of whom you get to see a lot of Priyanka Chopra,

  • Nick Jonas, Lilly Singh whatever, right? So these are the ones who click the pictures

  • from hidden places or in front of them and they sell it to different websites, to magazines,

  • to newspapers and we get to see what the celebrities are up to. So paparazzi are photograph, clicking,

  • clicking what? Celebrity pictures, right? You remember this, right? Well do you know

  • that they are now commonly termed as, “papsright that's a slang word for paparazzi. Let's

  • move on to the next word and that's, “glitch”. Well, any guesses of what does glitch mean?

  • Well you should know that glitch has its origin from the Yiddish, any guesses what they what

  • Yiddish is? It's also a type of German language, particularly spoken by the Jewish community

  • and that's where this word has come from, glitch. It means ‘a small problem’. A

  • small problem, okay? This is famously used, now this is actually used a lot in the business

  • world, well as well as people speaking, native speakers who use this this word quite often.

  • Now for example my boss gives me some work to do and I go to him like, “you know what

  • I have completed the work but there's a glitch”, so my boss knows that there is some problem

  • and he would ask me, go on tell me what is the problem? Or my mother has asked me to

  • cook a particular dish for dinner and when she comes home I'm like, “mom I've cooked

  • the food but there's a glitch”, so she's like, what? What did you do, what's wrong?

  • So they know that there is a small problem in something. You can also use these, this

  • particular word for any technology, like there is a glitch in the camera or the phone, a

  • small problem. Well let's move on to the next word, the next word this one is pronounced

  • asFaux Pas”. Now this is how I used to think before that any word that looks Lin

  • a particular way but has a completely different pronunciation has to be French and this is

  • indeed a French origin word and it means a ‘social mistake’. Let me tell you what

  • it means okay, let me write it down for you it's a ‘social mistake’. Usually this

  • mistake doesn't really harm anyone or hurt anyone in particular, right? When we say social

  • mistake, it actually is, it means when it embarrasses someone or if you make this mistake

  • then it might just embarrass you. Now for example, you're in the middle of a lot of

  • oldies around, okay and you end up saying certain ‘F’ words or words which are not

  • so welcomed in the oldies community, so what would you say? “Oops I think I made verbal

  • faux pas”, means you said something that you shouldn't have said and it embarrassed

  • you and it embarrassed the others around you. Well do you know that this word came into

  • use in other communities because of the fashion industry, yes now whenever anyone used to

  • go wrong in some clothing or accessorizing themselves then the journalists or the paparazzi's

  • would click their pictures and they would be termed as fashion faux-pas, that means

  • a fashion social mistake which is embarrassing, right? So now you know when to use faux pas,

  • when there's a small mistake that can cause embarrassment. Alright guys moving on to the

  • next word which issiesta”. Now try and guess that this word what could it mean? Well

  • it might sound like a party or a celebration but no, first let me tell you that this is

  • a Spanish origin word, alright? And it actually means, ‘a nap’. It means take a nap particularly

  • in the middle of the day, yes that's right when this word probably must have originated,

  • people back then used to wake up really early, take their lunch boxes with them, they used

  • to go to work and they used to have a bite in the afternoons and try to take a nap because

  • they used to work really hard and at that point probably it was okay taking a nap at

  • work. Well having said that, you can use this word in your daily conversations, you can

  • text your friend that, “hey I will talk to you soon I'm just going to take a quick

  • siestaor you can tell your parents that, “dad if you don't mind I'm gonna take a

  • quick siesta, I'm really tiredmeans you're gonna take a quick nap in the middle of the

  • day. Alright, then the next word ismacho”. I'm sure most of you know what this word means

  • but do you know the origin of this word? The origin of this word is also Spanish, alright

  • and what does it mean? It means a person who was very strong and masculine also at times

  • a little bit, just a little bit arrogant, okay? So we know this word as someone who

  • is very strong and who's masculine with a little bit of arrogance which comes with just

  • knowing that okay I'm very strong and masculine. So for example you can say thatyour brother

  • is pretty machoright but I think he should also learn to be a bit sweet, right? Well,

  • “I know that you're a macho man but you can try to be a little helpful”, so you

  • are strong, you're masculine so try to be helpful towards others. Well moving from macho

  • let's get toFest”. Now fest is a German origin word and as we all know it we love

  • fests, but what does it mean? It means a party a celebration, where people are enjoying,

  • having the time of their lives, they're just happy, singing, dancing, eating good food

  • and that's fest for you guys, okay? Party and celebrations, just the word gets you so

  • you know happy, right? Well so for example, “have you been to the YouTube fest recently?”

  • right, so YouTube has these amazing fests that happen all over the world in different

  • genres and people really love attending it. So that's a fest, you have music fests, you

  • have all these fests which people attend so try next time, just mark it in your calendar

  • whenever there's a YouTube fest around just try attending one and you will know how happening

  • these fests are. Well quickly jumping on to the next word which is, “rucksack”. Well

  • this strong sounding word originates from German language which actually means a ‘bag-pack’,

  • right? Back-pack for example you can saylet me quickly run and pack my rucksack for the

  • picnic”, or you can say, “Let me take your rucksack and you just relax”. Rucksack

  • is nothing but a backpack. Well now we have the last word right here and it is pronounced

  • asAdieuright I do it's a French origin word, any guesses what this could mean? It

  • meansgoodbyeand you very well know why I have kept this word at the end, this

  • word means goodbye and with this word you know what I'm going to say, I'm going to say

  • that that's all for the day, I'm going to see you guys very soon with another topic,

  • until then just make sure that you're having fun, you're using these words in your daily

  • conversations and I will see you very soon, alright guys, well adieu, bye.

Hey everybody, welcome back to Let's Talk and you are with me Meera. Well guys, I really

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