Name: Learn English | Basic English Conversation Course | 12 lessons
Uploaded: 2020-10-24T20:06:28.000Z
Duration: 51 min 47 s
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These videos are for intermediate level learners of English.

In these videos, we will talk about many expressions to help you communicate in English.

When you watch these videos you should do 3 things to help you study.

First, our teachers may say a word that you don't know.

Please take the time to find that word in a dictionary to help you understand the video.

Second, you should always try to repeat after the teacher in the video.

Whenever the teacher uses some new vocabulary or expressions, you need to repeat how they

Last, you should always review and re-watch the videos, and practice what you learned

to help you understand the expressions being taught to you.

It takes time and effort, but these videos will help you if you watch them with a sincere

I'm Esther and in this video, we're going to talk about how to describe the cost or

Now this is important to people like me who like shopping.

So, for example, I like shopping, especially for dresses.

So, I might say, the cost of “This dress is affordable.”

'Affordable' means that this dress is not too expensive.

I have enough money and I can pay for this dress.

I have enough money, I 'can' buy this dress.

So, I would say, “This dress is affordable.”

I can also say, “This dress is inexpensive.”

We all know what 'expensive' is, but we say “inexpensive”, so that's the opposite.

'Affordable' and 'inexpensive' have very similar meanings.

It means it's not expensive, but it's a little bit more negative.

If you say that something is “cheap”, people may think that the quality is not very

The opposite of these words is “expensive”.

It costs a lot of money…too much money.

So again, I don't want to buy this dress.

Ok, let's look at some more examples together.

“The hat was affordable because it was on sale.”

“I wish this bag was more affordable.”

“This computer is surprisingly inexpensive.”

“These shoes look beautiful, but they are too cheap.”

Ok, so in this video, we learned that when we want to describe the cost of something,

as not too expensive, we say “affordable”.

Something is 'affordable' if it's not too expensive.

On the other hand, if something is not affordable, if the cost is very high, we say “expensive”

For me, ahh…I think some brands like H&M and Forever21 are affordable.

But for me, I like those brands because they are affordable.

Ahhh…another store that I like, in Korea…it's called Zara or 자라, in Korea as they say.

Uhm…they have some items that are affordable and some items that are very expensive.

Ok, well that's what I wanted to share in this video.

In this video, we're going to talk about something fun that people like to do…and

We like to go on vacation…and we like to tell people about our vacations.

Because, if we can make them jealous, that's even better.

Now, there's two questions here that we're going to use to talk about 'vacation'.

One question is 'where we go' for vacation.

And the other question is 'what we do' when on vacation.

Now, the first question is, “Did you go anywhere for vacation?”

So, vacation time is finished and it's just time to talk about it.

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