Name: Improve your Vocabulary: Stop saying VERY!
Uploaded: 2018-06-20T21:46:01.000Z
Duration: 20 min 6 s
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"Getting from here to there,
it's been a long while."

I can't believe this, this
is like the Mirror Universe.

If you watch Star Trek, you'll understand;
if not, go watch Mirror Universe with Star

I have two, look at them,
I have two Mr. Es.

In the first one Mr. E is hot,
and the first one Mr. E is cold.

I see you're wearing
your Bermuda shorts.

And the second E is saying he's very cold:
"It's minus 30 degrees centigrade."

But don't you think there are better ways
to say it's very hot or it's very cold?

I think so, and in today's lesson
I'm going to teach some of you...

I'm going to teach all of you how to get rid
of the word "very" to describe everything,

and use other words which give more information,
which will make you sound more like a native

speaker and make your
writing phenomenal.

"Very" is a very good word, that's why we use
it, but when you're writing, to hear somebody

say: "Very, very, very, very, very, very,
very, very" is what we call monotonous, it

means "mono" as one, "tonous", one
tone, one sound - very boring.

You know, using "very" because I teach and
I notice a lot of students saying things,

like: "Teacher, today
it's very cold outside."

It's like being punched in the face again and
again, and I just want to say: "Stop with

But it's not fair because "very" is a very
good word-there, I did it again-we just need

to find other words to make your language
sound richer to improve it so you sound more

like a native English speaker, and to make
it more interesting for you because it will

express more of who you are and
your ideas in a better way.

You'll notice I put "very" in red because
this is something we don't want to do, we

And I'm going to give you a list of words
that people or students usually say when they

say "very" that I've
heard many, many times.

And today I'm going to give you
singular words to use instead.

I'll explain them, just in
case they're difficult.

People say: "Very rude", instead of
saying that, you can say: "vulgar".

"Vulgar" means very rude, and if somebody
says to me: "Your language is vulgar", I'll

probably stop talking because it means it's
not right, it's inappropriate, it's very bad.

"I don't like your vulgar
tone", your rude tone.

"Very short", another word we say
is "brief", which means small.

We had a very brief conversation,
a very short conversation.

When you say: "Class was very
boring today", you can say: "dull".

Here's a bonus when you
use these words, stupid.

If you say someone is dull, you can say they're
very boring, or dull meaning they're stupid.

Don't use it like that too often;
people don't like being called stupid.

And if you say: "He's
rather dull, isn't he?"

I have to listen for context
to mean stupid or boring.

Next one, everybody's
favourite: "Very good".

Why don't we change that
to the word "superb"?

Look carefully at the word "superb", you
have the word "super" written inside it.

Above average, excellent,
or superb, very good.

People don't usually use this word, so if
you tell me when I cook for you that it's

superb, I'm telling you right now I will
take that as such an amazing compliment.

Gentlemen, if you tell a woman she looks
superb, she'll be like: "Thank you.

"Freezing", you can say: "It's very cold
outside", but in minus 35, it's freezing.

I can put meat outside and it will turn to
ice, it's freezing, that's how cold it is.

And if you tell me it's freezing, I'm going
to get a jacket and another coat, and a hat,

and a scarf because I know
it's very, very cold.

You don't have to say: "It's
very, very cold today."

Next, here's a nice word, this
is what we call a $10 word.

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