Stop saying “Very" | Use these alternatives to sound like a native

hey guys welcome to lingua marina today we're going to talk about a word that i love using all the time and the word sounds like very by the way first of all let's pronounce it together it's not wary i know wary is is another word and there are two sounds in english language and they're very similar in the word very we kind of touch our lip a lower lip with our upper teeth so let's try together very so now that you've learned how to pronounce the word very correctly uh we can actually try and get rid of it in our speech not like completely rid of it it's okay to say very beautiful it's okay to say very interesting but the thing is yes we use this word to intensify whatever we're talking about but sometimes we use it too often and i use it too often i do this all the time and whenever i'm making such videos for you guys i'm also telling myself marina next time you're very excited say something else don't say very excited don't say i like this movie very much so today we're gonna go through 15 expressions that include very like very beautiful very tired very sad etc and we're gonna talk about synonyms that you can use to replace those expressions so if you're interested in sounding like a native speaker in making your speech very diversified and native speakers use a variety of different words not just vary all the time continue watching this video but before you continue hit the like button so we were editing this video and i realized that the problem is so common with just using all of these words that we decided that we need to create something in addition to the video and we've created a pdf with the most common synonyms to words that are overused so for example with the word very you can use so many other different words and replace it so we collected all of those words we collected some other words to replace commonly used words to make your speech more beautiful to make you sound more like a native speaker it's a free pdf the link is down below so hit it download the free pdf we also added some exercises so you could just practice whatever you just learned the link is below download the pdf replace very in your speech replace other commonly used words with something more sophisticated train them in the exercises and improve your english the link is down below it's completely free first of all we mentioned very beautiful so instead of saying very beautiful you can say charming you normally use the word charming for kids so when someone sees emily on the street they say oh she's so charming in this coat or whatever she's so charming in this hat i think she's charming gorgeous is mostly used to compliment women on their outfits marina you look gorgeous in this dress why haven't you worn it before oh and by the way dresses tend to perform really well on this channel one of the last videos that i made in my blue dress i was hoping for it to perform it was one out of ten according to youtube uh based on stats on my previous 10 videos it was performing at the top thank you guys so much for that by the way so we use gorgeous instead of saying very beautiful when we want to compliment a woman on her outfit you look gorgeous another uh word that you can use is stunning marina you look stunning in this dress you look stunning okay enough with compliments let's go to the next phrase very tired so last friday i made six videos in a day and i was very tired that sounds boring you can say i was exhausted oh my god i had to work so much last week i was exhausted by the end of the week you can even intensify the word exhausted with completely you could say i was completely exhausted by the end of last week i'm exhausted exhausted very sad again you know basic phrase for a student who's been learning english for like three years mary i'm very sad about our divorce if you want to sound like a native you would say he was heartbroken after his divorce he was heartbroken or he was devastated after his company went bankrupt she was devastated you see it's just a completely well it's not a different meaning you can still say very sad but devastated means he was so sad he probably stopped eating stopped going over friends and that was a real tragedy in his life so devastating or heartbroken they have different meanings but they show more meaning when you use them very happy again this is something a three to four year old would use here in the us i guess uh very happy very basic you can say i'm thrilled oh my god i am thrilled to see you i haven't seen you in a while thrilled means very happy uber happy extremely happy yes i'm thrilled i also like the expression on cloud9 that means very happy i was on cloud nine when dima proposed to me when uh we decided to get married i was on cloud nine means i was very happy are you literally on cloud nine right now delighted you will be delighted about something i'm going to tell you right now which means you're going to be really happy delighted i'd be delighted by the way 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feedback has been the most amazing so highly highly recommended the link will be below now the next phrase would be very surprised instead of saying marina i was very surprised when i took your course because it was so good you can say marina i was amazed by the course by the way if you guys have taken the course please comment down below what you think of it and by the way if you want to read more views about linguatrip and the courses type in linguatriptrustpilot and you will see hundreds of reviews another way to replace very surprised would be astonished over 50 of students who've taken the course said they were astonished with it i am astonished very small again super basic instead of saying very small you can say tiny she refused to eat even a tiny piece of cake because she was on a diet minuscule is another great word to use very advanced the chances of winning a lottery are minuscule that means they're very small almost non-existent the chances are always minuscule very big very big again very basic instead of saying very big of course you can say huge it was a huge mistake new york is a huge city huge mistake la's a huge city if you imagine like los angeles if you think it's a city it's actually a lot of small towns and there are highways between them i was surprised when i came to la and i realized how huge it is because i thought it was like a typical american city with a downtown and then suburbs no you have beverly hills has its own downtown you have santa monica has its own downtown venice beach hollywood burbank playa vista like all of the different towns they have their own downtown they have their own suburbs and all of them together are la and it would take you maybe like three hours to go from one end of the lake to another end of la it's like crazy it's a huge city or you can also say it's a giant city los angeles is a giant city giant coffee when we're talking about somebody's achievements the word tremendous will be very suitable very suitable she has achieved tremendous success by starting her own company tremendous that's tremendous or you can also say massive success and you can also use massive with discounts for example there are massive discounts on black friday wait till black friday to buy a new tv set it's not massive humongous this humongous this is a super advanced word humongous again means very big a great example be the prices for real estate in silicon valley where i live are humongous like it's crazy you won't be able to get a decent place for less than a million dollars this is how expensive it is here that is a humongous shrimp very bad instead of saying very bad you can say horrible that's horrible news that's horrible terrible it looks like he's having a terrible day that was a terrible day horrendous horrendous this is like super bad very bad extremely bad there was a horrendous accident down the street that means you know something really bad happened sounds horrendous awful someone tells you i just got fired and you can say oh my god that is awful i'm so sorry for you this is awful very difficult can you imagine like when we're talking to people we use very so many times and there are so many other amazing synonyms that we can use to make our speech diversify so i'm just hoping you're writing things down very difficult you can say challenging learning english is very difficult learning english is challenging and i like the word challenging because with very difficult i think it's like you're giving up it's very difficult i don't like it with the word challenging you're like it's challenging and i like it it's another experience another challenge in my life i'm learning english challenging oh you can also say demanding again like for example you as a parent you would might say she's a very difficult child but it's not like you're struggling you just understand that your child is special and you can say my child is very demanding she needs a lot of attention she's at that age when she wants to be around mommy and daddy so she's really demanding of our time she really needs attention because you won't say very difficult but people understand that it's difficult for you but at the same time you're not saying very difficult so you see it's not just about replacing the word it's about giving some context by just using a synonym demanding very simple again very simple sounds very basic you can say straightforward this is a straightforward task nothing to think of it's very straightforward or you can use a piece of cake remember that's an idiom i hope you've been watching me for a while by the way guys comment down below how long have you been watching this channel like i'm curious to know because i think with like with anything people come and go all the time but i wonder like who stayed here the longest like when did you start watching this channel and how long have you been doing it comment down below that's very interesting nobody says that learning english is a piece of cake nobody says it's easy but it's very rewarding once you master it there is a whole new world courses in english education travel uh work very smart remember smart in british is beautiful like you look smart that means you look beautiful in the u.s were you smart for clever so teaching i'm speaking american english i remember british english but i try to use american so instead of staying smart you can say witty your daughter is really witty you're so witty you didn't say brilliant collins brothers are brilliant entrepreneurs they start a company called stripe which is a payment processor brilliant or intelligent uh your brother is a very intelligent man uh he has graduated from harvard university you're an intelligent man instead of saying very important you can say crucial money is a crucial part of our lives because it matters right it's a crucial moment essential it is essential to start investing as soon as possible to take advantage of the compound interest and to retire in safety are they essential vital is very close to like super important having regular checkups is vital because otherwise you can miss a serious disease but it is vital instead of saying very interesting you can say fascinating i found this tv show extremely fascinating by the way if you're looking for movie recommendations i would highly recommend netflix's i care a lot this is like one of the best movies i've watched in the past few years fascinating or captivating this netflix movie is captivating i love captivating things very hungry i always say i'm starving oh my god guys i'm starving let's go and have some food because i'm pregnant i'm starving all the time i'm starving she's starving famished is like extremely hungry i am famished i could eat a horse come on i'm famished by the way i could eat a horse is also an idiom it means you can just eat a lot doesn't mean you will be eating a horse ravenous is also something that relates to being very hungry i was ravenous on friday after filming all the videos i know braveness and the last but not the least very angry instead of saying very angry you can say i am furious oh my god i'm furious about him not coming to my birthday party i was expecting him furious or you can say mad are you still mad at me because i didn't come to your birthday party that was it for me guys i'm looking forward to reading your comments below this video and i'm looking forward to seeing you soon in my next videos bye bye

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Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Wed May 05 2021