Learn English Through Listening
Impress Your Listeners With Vivid Vocabulary Ep 584
Let’s work on making the English language you use more interesting today! It is fine to use simple words and phrases when learning a new language. But as you progress in your language use, it’s more interesting, for you and any listener, to use more expressive words when speaking. The lesson today has lots of examples of how you can level up your language, and a quiz to help you test your understanding.
✔Lesson transcript: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-phrases-for-interested-listeners/
Variety in your vocabulary is useful in two ways. First, when speaking with native speakers, they will appreciate your creativity! Secondly, being able to use a variety of vocabulary helps you better understand native speakers as well.
What do I mean by using interesting vocabulary? Well, for example, if you’re talking about a fast car, you might say that it drives quickly, or that it goes fast.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
⭐ Gloria Naylor
Of course, there are many other ways to describe speed. For example, one could say that the car moves "at a rapid pace" or "flies down the highway".