Name: Powerful Vocabulary: English Words To Sound Smart
Uploaded: 2019-10-27T02:44:59.000Z
Duration: 12 min 15 s
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Now learning powerful words is really great

there's just not really much point is there?

And when I say use them effectively, I mean use them

correctly in your sentences with the right

supporting words to help it sound natural

For many English nouns there are actually only a small

number of verbs that can frequently be used with them,

right when they're used together in sentences

and we call these combinations of words 'collocations'.

Now learning English collocations is so helpful

if you want to sound more natural and intelligent

focus on a particular set of intelligent words

that will help you to talk about personal challenges.

So these words are going to be incredibly powerful

in job interviews, in a professional context,

when you're sitting exams, the times when you need to

reflect on your personal life experiences.

So if you're ready to expand your vocabulary,

Before we get started, a super quick reminder to

turn on the subtitles down here if you need to

and if you feel like doing something lovely today

then help me to translate this video so that

other people in your country can watch it

it's going to be excellent English practice for you.

I think it's fair to say that most of us are trying

That's what you're doing here watching me, isn't it?

Now we are always trying to learn new skills

try to tweak and improve our personal qualities a little

to try and become better versions of ourselves.

That's why we set goals, that's why we're conscious

or we're aware of the things that we're trying to improve.

For me, I'm trying to get conversational in Spanish

and I'm really trying to work on my management

See my team has grown really quickly over the last

you know, I want to be the best leader that I can be

for my team so I really want to improve these skills.

So what about you? What are you working on?

My aim in this lesson is to help you expand

your vocabulary around this topic and to help you to feel

more confident when you're using sophisticated

if you need to use English professionally

or if you're planning to use English at university.

These are all great words and expressions

something's not working or something's blocking us

and we call this thing that's blocking us an obstacle.

Now it can be a physical thing like a tree that's fallen

but it can also be a problem that prevents you or stops

you from achieving something that you want to do.

So say you really want to apply for a job

but in the application they said that you need

You only have two. So this is an obstacle,

right? It's a problem. It's blocking you.

It's not completely impossible to get around

that obstacle but you've got to work a little harder

So 'obstacle' is a countable noun, you can have

an obstacle or you can have five obstacles

and it's most commonly used with the verbs

All of these verbs have slightly different meanings.

So by using 'hit', we're highlighting that moment that

So here the verb 'face' is highlighting that moment

that you deal with the obstacle like you're looking at it

and you're standing there ready to take it on.

And 'overcome' here, it highlights that moment you got

past the obstacle. It's not blocking you anymore.

We use these same verbs with the noun 'challenge' too.

And really that's just a synonym of 'obstacle'.

When I created my online English learning community,

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