6 advanced words to upgrade your Business English

- Let's see.

Very interesting, very good,

very bad, very difficult,

very basic.

Do you feel like you use, very, too much

when you speak English?

Now, don't worry.

We all do.

But this lesson will help you to sound smarter

with better vocabulary.

Hi, I'm your English coach, Christina,

and welcome to Speak English with Christina

where step-by-step you get the confidence you need

for better English, better business, and a better you.

Now, maybe first you're asking yourself the question,

why bother learning these new words

if very plus the adjective is fine, and everybody says that?

Well, maybe in your English,

you feel like you use very plus the adjective

like very good, very interesting, et cetera,

more than you should.

And you feel like you're always using the same expressions.

It sounds very basic.

It sounds very repetitive.

Like I'm using very there.

That's a good example.

If you expand your vocabulary,

it helps you to sound more interesting and more intelligent.

Also, there was a famous American researcher and educator,

Johnson O'Connor is his name.

And he said, "A person's vocabulary level

is the single best predictor of occupational success."

Basically more advanced vocabulary

equals a more advanced career.

And that's what I'm here for is

to help you have a better career,

thanks to a better level of English.

Now, why are there only six expressions in this video,

when, on YouTube, you'll find videos with like 50 ways

to stop saying very or 25 ways or 12.

Well, I don't want to overwhelm your brain.

I wanna make it manageable for you to learn

and not give you a long list that you watch the video,

and then you don't ever use anything that you watched.

So we'll do it step by step.

We've got six expressions.

You can learn one per day over the next week

and even have a day to come back and review.

First one, instead of saying very easy,

you could say a piece of cake.

This is an idiomatic expression.

So a lot of students love those also.

For example, the coffee machine was broken,

but I fixed it, piece of cake.

Or, yeah, that presentation, it was a piece of cake!

In other words, it was very easy.

Instead of saying very important,

you can say it's essential.

For example, it's essential that you take breaks

during your day so that you can stay focused and healthy.

Or in work, this is an essential part of the project,

so please do your best on it.

Instead of very good, you can say awesome.

- Oh my gosh, I love this song.

♪ Everything is awesome ♪

♪ Everything is cool when you're part of a team ♪

Drink overpriced coffee.

- There you go.

That's $37.

- Awesome.

- Personally, I know that I say this one a lot

and if you've ever worked with me,

you've heard me say awesome quite often.

Like, I know that we native speakers,

we use awesome a lot and I went into the chat tool

that I use to communicate with my team.

I did a search for awesome to see how many times it came up

in our discussions.

Yeah, there were like 500 or so results.

So awesome is a very useful expression.

It's like just the example.

Yeah, that's an awesome idea Karyn, thanks.

It's a very good idea.

Or we had some awesome feedback from the client.

They were really happy with our product.

And something that is essential for helping me

to help more learners and it's a piece of cake for you.

Go ahead and click the thumbs up on this lesson

and subscribe to my channel.

It's an awesome way to let me and YouTube know

that this lesson is useful for you.

And to say thank you to you for that,

here come our next three vocabulary words.

Instead of very interesting,

you can use fascinating.

And when you use this word to describe something,

people will probably pay more attention to you

because very interesting, that's kind of a basic expression

that everybody uses, but fascinating, it's like,

ooh, what is this about?

What's she gonna tell me about.

- Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.

- So for example, Sophie,

your presentation was fascinating, really.

That's gonna make Sophie feel a bit extra special.

Or something like I read a fascinating report

about the relationship between English level

and English salary.

And that's true.

I did read a very fascinating report on that.

Very bad.

Instead of this you can say it's terrible.

Now, be careful because in English,

terrible only means very bad.

It doesn't ever, it never means good

like in some languages you can say, oh yeah,

that was terrible.

It was really good.

No, in English that doesn't work.

So if you say, oh, that movie, it was terrible.

You really have to go see it.

People are gonna think, something's maybe not right

with your English or not right with you.

I don't know.

But terrible, it only means very bad.

For example, the movie, it was terrible.

Don't waste your time watching it.

You might say that in a small talk conversation.

Or in a business discussion,

yeah, we had terrible results last month,

but this month should be better.

And for the last one,

I wanna leave you with a positive one.

So very happy, instead, you can say thrilled.

Like, I'm thrilled that you're investing in yourself

to become better at English.

Or you can say to your employees or your coworkers,??

you know what I'm really thrilled

with the work that you did on the project.

Thank you so much.

And you know, if you don't use it, you lose it.

So here's how you can use what you learned today.

Tell me which one of these new vocabulary words

you want to use more in your English.

And use it in an example sentence

that you could use in your real life, down in the comments.

It's the perfect opportunity to practice,

to make sure that you use it correctly

and to add it to your active vocabulary.

And if this lesson was helpful for you,

I would love to know.

And there are three simple ways that you can tell me.

Give this lesson a thumbs up on YouTube

and subscribe to my channel

so I can continue helping you become better

at business English.

Or get the free English Habits Kit

over on my website.

So I can help you build some solid English learning habits

for lifelong learning and watch the next lesson

which is all about helping you

to stop translating in your head.

Thank you so much for improving your English and yourself

with Speak English with Christina.

And I look forward to seeing you next time.