0:04

So speaking of games, we are going to

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be playing a bit of a, an

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English fluency game where we're going to

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be challenging ourselves. Each of us will

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take turns and our producer

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Izzy is in the studio and he has been

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kind enough to prepare for us

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some words that most beginner intermediate

0:23

learners might overuse,

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right? And each of us is going

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to try to come up in a

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very short amount of time. I think we'll give

0:32

ourselves a 30 second timer to come up with

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as many alternatives, as many synonyms as we can

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for that simple, more

0:38

beginner to intermediate version. All right. So Izzy

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prepare our first word. Who wants to do

0:43

the honors? Cause any, or do you want

0:45

to be the first to go? Yeah,

0:47

I'll go first. All

0:49

right. Cause any of your word is big, big,

0:52

big, large, uh,

0:56

enormous, gigantic, um,

0:59

massive, uh,

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colossal, um,

1:04

huge. Did I say

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large? Um,

1:08

then what else? What

1:11

else guys? Extreme. Uh,

1:15

extraordinary. Can, you

1:17

know, depending on the context where we use big

1:19

or large and big.

1:25

That was, that was how many?

1:27

How counted? You got eight. That's,

1:29

that's pretty impressive. That was an

1:31

easy one. That was an easy one for

1:33

the start. Right. But some of those were

1:35

very advanced words. I love colossal, for example.

1:38

Colossal. Reminds me

1:40

of the seven wonders of the world.

1:42

Right. I think the ancient ones. I

1:44

thought of gargantuan. I wasn't sure if

1:46

you would get that one. It's like

1:48

gigantic also. Right. Even bigger than that. Right.

1:51

All right. So Izzy is sharing some other alternatives.

1:53

You could have said great grand

1:55

spacious, depending on the collocation, right? Because spacious

1:57

would be a big house, a spacious. house.

2:00

Something too that you have to

2:02

really pay attention to is the

2:04

way that it's used can change

2:06

the meaning slightly. So if

2:09

you say big, large, huge, gargantuan,

2:13

each of those is a bit bigger than

2:16

the other one. So you might have a big

2:18

meal, but a gargantuan meal would be a big

2:20

meal you could finish, but a gargantuan meal there's

2:22

no way you could possibly finish it. It's like

2:24

how is this for one person? Paying attention

2:26

to that when you hear these words, when you read

2:28

them just because it says the definition is something big,

2:31

that doesn't necessarily mean that it's

2:33

got a subtly different meaning depending

2:35

on the context. Alright, so Chiyago,

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do you want to go next? Are you

2:40

ready for the challenge? Yeah, let's do it. Alright,

2:43

Chiyago, your word is friend. Friend.

2:45

Let's say Ethan.

2:48

Ethan is my friend, my pal, my

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bro, my

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partner in crime,

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my friend. What

3:00

else? He's my friend. He's

3:02

my... Oh

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man, I think I'm out. Amigo. Amigo,

3:08

Latino, yeah. Thank you, Celia.

3:13

Or comrade. That comes from

3:15

Russian, right? My comrade. Oh

3:18

man, I did it horribly. I got three only. I

3:22

thought of mate. Did you say mate?

3:24

Like Australian, very? I did, no.

3:26

Oh yeah. Because you're so American.

3:29

Yeah, I went with pal, which

3:31

is more American, I guess. Buddy,

3:34

I think you... Did you say

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buddy? Buddy, yeah. And bud, yeah.

3:38

I didn't say that one, yeah. Or

3:40

you're confidant. That's another really nice one.

3:43

That's like someone that you can confide in,

3:46

someone you really trust, you're confidant. I

3:48

love the new ones in pronunciation because we

3:51

have confidant and

3:53

also confidence, right? So

3:55

the vowel there in the middle is really... There's

3:58

a small difference there. pronunciation but it's

4:01

different. Confident and confidence.

4:04

There is a word confido. Confido.

4:07

Confido. There is an it's a novel short

4:09

story actually I don't remember the author now

4:11

we were reading this short story in the

4:13

fluency circle and I was researching this word

4:15

because I didn't know the word confido but

4:17

it yeah. I didn't know that one either.

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the book club as well. Very

4:38

nice. All right so we

4:40

move on to the third one I guess I'm

4:42

in the hot seat. You are in the hot

4:44

seat now. Go Ethan go. By

4:46

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4:49

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4:51

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4:53

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6:37

right, my word is hard. That doesn't

6:40

mean it's difficult, challenging,

6:42

arduous, no-gan-scratcher.

6:48

Wow. Stressful,

6:52

straining, strenuous. Okay,

6:57

I'll speed. Well, okay. I didn't go in the direction

6:59

too that it could be like something that's physically

7:02

hard, right? I was thinking of

7:04

something that's maybe mentally hard. It

7:06

was challenging. Yeah.

7:08

Oh, Izzy wants me to go

7:11

again with the physically hard. So,

7:15

rough.

7:19

Solid. Heavy.

7:24

That's even a harder one. Tough

7:27

as diamonds. Rock

7:30

hard. I don't

7:33

know. That's a

7:35

more challenging one. So we

7:37

had some other ones I missed so firm. Solid?

7:40

Did I say that one? Solid? Yeah, I think

7:43

you said stiff. Durable. Oh,

7:45

that's a good one. Durable. It means something

7:47

that's long-lasting, right? Resistance.

7:51

Dense. I was trying to think

7:53

of that. I thought of the word porous, which is

7:55

the opposite. Something that has a lot of holes in

7:57

it, like lava rock is very porous.

8:00

But something that's hard is

8:03

more that dense, stony,

8:06

impenetrable. Meaning that you

8:08

were talking about the game that you liked when you were

8:10

a kid, Cassenio, that had castles. You

8:12

might say like an impenetrable fortress. Meaning

8:15

a fortress that can't be penetrated, that

8:17

you can't get into it

8:19

tough. That's one that's underused, right? And

8:21

it's a fun one for pronunciation. T-O-U-G-F,

8:24

but the G-H. But

8:27

the G-H is pronounced as an F. Ooh,

8:29

formidable. Have you guys heard that one

8:32

before? Yeah, especially collocating with challenge. We

8:34

are facing a formidable challenge here, for example.

8:38

Vaxing. I think I heard

8:40

it a couple of times, vexing. And

8:42

it's also about like more mental fatigue or

8:44

something. Perplexing. I

8:47

think I use perplexing. It's like

8:49

puzzling, confusing. Yeah, I tend

8:51

to like the longer words, so

8:53

bewildering and perplexing. They

8:56

catch my attention. Make you sound

8:59

very noble if you say that it's

9:02

a bewildering problem. Right. I mean, who

9:04

talks like that, right? All

9:07

right, we're going to do a final round.

9:10

This is like the grand finale where

9:12

we're just going to have some fun with it. All of us

9:15

are going to just yell out words and see who can come

9:17

up with the most. And our producers

9:20

are going to try to... Keep track of that. Try

9:22

to do it. It might be even more difficult for

9:24

them counting because of all that speaking at the same

9:26

time. But let's give it a go.

9:28

And the next word is great.

9:32

Amazing. Fantastic. Fabulous.

9:36

Grandiose. Exceptional. Fabulous.

9:41

Exhilarating. Magical.

9:45

Incredible. Thrilling.

9:49

Super duper. Top

9:52

of the notch. Out

9:55

of this world. Incredible. Yeah. Super

9:59

california. Fragilistic expialidocious. Oh

10:07

Play that party and like I don't know Man

10:14

I lost that you guys kicked my

10:16

butt But we left

10:18

a lot of these off excellent. I think

10:20

one of you said that marvelous. That's a

10:22

really nice one superb I like

10:24

that one superb Maybe

10:29

Maybe nifty would be more unknown to me.

10:31

I would say nifty nifty is a bit

10:34

like handy That's a nifty

10:36

trick you could say. Mm-hmm. It's something

10:38

that's it's a great trick But in

10:41

other words, it's it's one that is very

10:43

useful in slick Slick

10:46

I think of someone with like slicked back

10:48

hair, but it's it's kind of like cool

10:50

or Something

10:52

done skillfully like a Oh

10:55

that was slick because any slick use

10:58

of that word I

11:04

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11:06

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