26 KEY words (from A to Z) to take you from INTERMEDIATE to ADVANCED level English

can you speak English okay and yet you find it difficult to understand native English speakers can you have a conversation but find it hard to understand films and TV shows in English can you write an email without problem but when you read a newspaper article or a novel you kind of get lost if so then you may be suffering from that well-known malady stuck at intermediate stuck at intermediate you can't sleep at night you feel nervous anxious to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat No okay exaggerating a bit but listen learning a language any language is like a triangle triangle okay lots of beginners stuck at the bottom and a large section in the middle trapped at intermediate and just a few reaching advanced level now my job here at let them talk is to get you from intermediate to advanced level from b1 or b2 to c1 or c2 and if I manage to do that then my job is done and I'll give up making videos and spend the rest of my days on the sofa I know eating donuts and watching Netflix and trying to learn the ukulele so today we've got 26 worse you propel you from intermediate to advanced and these words you can start using in written and spoken English twenty six one for each letter of the alphabet from A to Z and I'll show you how you can use each word with a definition and an example sentence let me just give you an example before we start this take the word confused it's an intermediate words I'm sure you know what it means for example I was confused this morning I put the keys in the fridge and I tried to lock the door we the barter okay no problem there we might use that native speakers might say like that but you could use another word a native speaker might use an advanced words such as muddle or in a muddle I was in such a muddle this morning I tried to put my trousers on my head and I stepped into my hat okay so this is just one example so words that native speakers or advanced users will use 26 words that will helped your speaking and help your comprehension coming right up so stay tuned [Music] hello and welcome to let them talk and today we've got 26 words to take you from intermediate to advanced English now these are all common words with one possible exception which I'll explain in a minute so let's go a is for all beard or beard now this is an extremely useful word that you used to show a contrast to a statement that you've just made for example you made a lot of progress albeit slowly so you have a statement followed by albeit followed by an adverb or adverbial phrase or an adjective which contradicts or modifies the earlier phrase and the beautiful thing about your beard is that it can be followed by just one word you don't need a pronoun you don't need a verb just an adverb or an adjective phrase for example another example he arrived at the meeting or be it an hour late you see no verb no pronoun not a little bit B is called budge budge and this is a synonym of to move or change position and we especially use it when we want to talk about people changing their minds or their decisions so for example we asked them to improve their offer but they wouldn't budge we tried to convince the President to resign but he wouldn't budge you can also use it to mean move something heavy hey can you help me budge the sofa so there you are you can use budge instead of move c is for comeuppance comeuppance which means a punishment or fade that someone deserves he's a dishonest guy now he's free but one day he'll get his comeuppance and end up in prison all those people who try to hide their millions in tax havens got their comeuppance when the newspaper published their names D is for dodgy dodgy Netaji is a great word because it has so many uses it can mean suspicious or bad quality the sample or strange example it's got a a dodgy haircut stuck your haircut it's a dirty man weighing outside my position in this company is a bit dodgy I might lose my job any minute he is for to egg on to egg on now you all know what an egg is but to egg on is a phrasal verb meaning to encourage but in a bad way we could also say to incite for example the accused would never normally steal anything but his so-called friends egged him on it was a case of peer pressure Your Honor look I don't want to take any drugs stop egging me on by the way egg on doesn't have anything to do with eggs it comes from an old-world Old Norse world egg yeah not sure I'm pronouncing that right which means to incite and it's been in the English language since around 1200 f is for flustered flustered which means to be confused and nervous at the same time I always get flustered when lots of people are asking me lots of questions at same time I was getting flustered because my train was delayed and I thought I would miss my flight G is for galore galore isn't that beautiful word galore and galore comes from Scottish Gaelic there aren't many words in English language from Gaelic but this is one of them and it just means a lot much or many but in a positive way but the trick about galore is it comes after the noun is quite a literary and poetic word but it's common enough so do use it for example for my birthday everybody bought me a bottle of whiskey so now I have whiskey galore whiskey is also a Gaelic word which means water of life so whisky galore is the only phrase in the English language just using words from Gaelic I went to the tech show and there were gadgets galore wonderful wonderful gadgets gadgets galore H is for hullabaloo now this means a lot of noise a fast disturbance a commotion for example on the first day of the sales there was quite a hullabaloo outside the shop just before it opened I just wanted to get a refunds but God what a hullabaloo they made of it all sigh is for inkling inkling now inkling is another way of saying that you have a feeling that something might happen or something is true an idea even though you're you're not 100% sure so for example I have an inkling that Jane might break up with Jim something she said gave me the impression that she's not happy I have an inkling that Johnson had something to do with the murder even though he denies it yes indeed I think Johnson J is for George now George is usually a noun and it means taking a short trip for pleasure for example I say Samantha do you fancy taking a jaunt with me in my vintage Bugatti this Sunday I don't travel much these days except for the occasional jaunt to visit my family in Scotland k is for knack knack knack means a skill or an ability or a talent usually something positive but not always for example you've got a knack for choosing the right moment but it could be used to describe a negative Talent for example you really have a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time L is for layaway leeway and it means a little bit of freedom or space to act we often use it to talk about a little extra or additional time we've been given so for example I think we should get to the airport two hours ahead and not one and a half hours that will give us a little leeway in case we are held up in bad traffic the deadline for tax returns is the 31st of March however they usually give you a few days leeway so it arrives on the second or third of April you are probably still okay M is for maverick maverick this is a noun and refers to someone who acts in a non conformist way often breaking the rules but it's used positively she is a maverick politician she didn't join any political party but still got elected as an independent detective Jones was something of a maverick his techniques and his investigations were really unconventional but he got results any song nitpick to nip it is the verb and nitpicking is the noun and it means to criticize someone for small unimportant details for example you are complaining because I use the American spelling of color Co L does it matter you're just nitpicking here I forgot to clean one teaspoon and you complain to the manager you like to nitpick don't you oh is for booze to ooze which has two meanings it can mean a liquid coming out slowly from inside of something such as blood oozing out of a wound but the meaning I want to talk about today is when we use it figuratively to mean a powerful impression of something so for example she used confidence he used sex appeal she used charisma P is for foot foot yeah I know it sounds kind of strange foot but yes it is a fairly common verb it's a verb to pussyfoot now it means to tread carefully often to take too much care too much attention or maybe when you don't want to commit to something and it's usually followed by a round so the phrasal verb would be to pussyfoot around for example stop pussyfooting around and tell me exactly what it is you want politicians stop pussyfooting around and commit themselves to one side or the other John stop pussyfooting around and just cross the room and speak to the girl q is for Guam Guam usually used in the plural form qualms and it's a noun and you use it when you want to talk about having doubts or worries about something so for example yes I have a few qualms about moving to Dubai but it's a good job so I'll take it I left her twenty years ago without any qualms or is for readily readily really is an adverb which means without hesitation or willingly I readily admit that swimming across the river is not the preferred option but the bridge has collapsed and we have no choice if you let me keep the house and the kids I will readily agree to the divorce S is for spark spark and it's a very useful word and it's both a verb and a noun as a noun it literally refers to the first flame of a fire but not yet a fire just a spark and we can use it to mean a small amount of something a hint a touch of something for example when he was found guilty by the jury and sentenced to life imprisonment he stood there without a spark of emotion after working all night finally there was a spark of inspiration as a verb it means to create or emit something so for example he insulted his colleague and this sparked a fight t is for thrice thrice now I said that all the words on this list were very useful with one exception and this is possibly it because thrice means three times but it's rarely used these days yes we use once we use twice but why not thrice it's logical and it's a beautiful word so I'm encouraging you to start using it so it becomes much more common in the English language as it once was so for example it's incredible he thrice won the lottery yes you told me that once you told me that twice and he told me it thrice that's enough you is four utmost utmost another extremely useful word that used to emphasize how important or serious something is and it means to the greatest extends to the highest degree for example I will do my utmost to ensure that you get the best deal this is a delicate situation and you should handle it with the utmost care I will do my utmost to stop brexit V is for vy - vide suburb and this means to compete for or to strive for something and it's usually though not always followed by the preposition for for example jim has been vying for a place in the English football team let them talk or vying to be the best English language learning channel on YouTube W is for wim wim now wim is a noun and it means a sudden desire or change of mind especially one that is unusual or unexplained usually we say on a whim for example you know one day I was in a boring meeting at work when on a whim I walked out got my passport and took the first flight to Fiji and I've been here ever since and that was 20 years ago we had only known each other for a week when we decided on a whim to get married unfortunately within a month we had broken up yes be careful about getting married on a whim x is for xenomania zero mania now on the X is here and obviously then have a lot of choice with the X's there aren't many common words in English beginning with X now there is xenophobia as initially going to choose which means the suspicion or the dislike of foreigners or outsiders but it's a very negative word so instead I've chosen as my X word xenomania which is the delight and the pleasure of meeting strangers or visiting foreign countries and yes I am a Zener maniac what about you let me know in the comments why is for yearn yearn now yearn is a verb and a noun and it means an intense desire or feeling for something for example I live in Paris but I yearn to be back in London my hometown ok that's not necessarily true it's just an example I yearn to retire and spend the rest of my days meeting donuts and the ukulele just as I said earlier is that true well maybe yes maybe no zinnias for zig zag zig zag and that is a line that has sharp right and left turns she was drunk and drove in a zigzag across town the wallpaper had a zigzag pattern so go out and start using those amazing advanced words and let me know how you do also I'm sure when you start watching TV shows and speaking speakers you'll start recognizing those word you start hearing those words a lot okay what was your favorite word in the list do you have a word you'd like to add to the list do you prefer donuts or broccoli answer these questions and more in the comments see the best English learning language learning Kevin talked of vying to be the best in winger Levin talk [Music]

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Length: 22min 17sec (1337 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 04 2019