English Vocabulary - Roots - "port"

Transport it from here, to here, transport it from here, to here.

Hi, James, www.engvid.com, I'm just playing.

I was transporting the pen from here, to here, moving it.

Actually this pen is imported from China, big surprise, right?

Imported, transported.

Hey, let's go to the board and work that out.

There's something there.

Now, here's one word, transported.

You see one word, I see three parts.

Let's break it down.

First, a little history.

In English, our language is not just one language, and that's the main problem.

People come, learn the language, the rules for our language, and get so confused because

they say, "You know what, you say this rule is here, not here.

Rule here, rule here."

Well, that's because English is made up of four parts, four.

What are those four?

Well, we have Teutonic or German roots, Anglo-Saxons after all, then we have French, when the French

kings ruled England for a while, yes, then we have Greek and Latin, that's where the

educated scholarly people lived, okay?

They learned all of these languages, but over time, these languages came together and were

used, brought together, okay, made into one.

That's why the rules don't all apply, but here's the good news.

A lot of our language is made up of Latin, and Latin usually has a word and it can consist

of one or two or three parts, and if you know what these parts are, you can figure out at

least 30 to 40% of our language.

Come on, let's go to the board.

Okay, you see one word, I see three parts.

I see like a tree, a big tree looming, okay?

So how do I see it?

Well, the first part of the word is the prefix, it means pre means before, so pre, and we

go here, and we'll say prefix.

Fix means added on, so this is the first part added on to something, and now the end part

of the word is called the suffix, okay, so we got a prefix and a suffix, interesting,

yes?

So let's be detectives and go back to the board and see what we're missing.

Well if this is the suffix, this is the prefix, what is this?

Well this is what we call the root.

The root is the word, is what gives the word its structure.

It's like having a house, or if you're a Bill Gates, having a mansion, huge mansion.

You start with a small part, then you build on to it, like building a house, the house

gets bigger and bigger, but you need something to start from.

Well we need the base or the root.

If you understand what the root is, and then you know suffix and prefix, it's easy to figure

out many English words, approximately 30-40% of our language.

That means, goodbye dictionary, hello English knowledge, alright?

So let's go to the board and work it out, okay?

Now I picked something specifically, port, why, because I want to work on roots today,

or bases.

I didn't just say transported, I also say imported.

Now some of the words I'm going to say, you're going to know, and when I tell you what the

actual word port means, you're going to go, oh my god, it's simple, and I'll go, yeah

it is, right?

So we have prefix, suffix, and root, okay?

We're going to go back over those in a second or two on the blue screen, but for now let's

do some work.

We'll do a review in a second or two.

So I said the root was port, okay?

And I told you that trans was the prefix, and I told you the ed was the suffix.

This place is a group, what we call, sorry, that's not a suffix, isn't new boys and girls,

this is a suffix, okay?

Now this is a grammatical suffix.

These happen with ing, ed, and s, okay, ly.

You know them from grammar, okay?

So, but it's still a suffix.

Now once we've isolated, we've got ports, we're going to say, what does this mean?

Well, I'll tell you.

Trans means change, or move, okay?

Ed means past.

So what does this mean?

I'll tell you.

P-O-R-T means carry.

That's right, it means carry, dun, dun, dun, dun.

Ezekiel's not working today, so I don't have the good music, but maybe later you'll, dun,

dun, dun, dun, right?

Alright, so carry actually means port, or port means carry.

Why is this important?

Because there's many words, oh see, I said important, ooh, let's take a look, okay?

So, let's just look at a couple of words you know with the word port in them.

I live in Canada, we love Japanese cars.

So we love to im-port them, okay?

We're going to go here and figure out what that means in a second or two.

Many people love Canadian trees, the good old maple tree.

So we like to ex-port our maple trees.

If you go to other countries, I'd say England for instance, you need a passport.

Do you have your passport, mate?

Do you have your passport on you?

Could you give it to me, please?

Alright, you need a passport.

Okay?

Now, what about, hmm, did you watch X-Men?

If you watched X-Men, you'd see this guy called Nightcrawler, and he would teleport.

See me here now?

Teleport, okay?

It doesn't really exist, but the idea is teleport, and we're going to take a look at that.

Actually, you know what, we won't.

I'll tell you what it means, but we'll go back to transport.

Now, let's do some basic math.

If port means carry, what do these other things mean?

Okay, well, carry, carry, carry, and carry.

Well, "I am" in English is funny.

It actually means "in," okay?

It actually means "in," but when we have "in" and it means "P," it changes.

That'll be another lesson where we'll go into, and we'll change, "Why does 'n' change to

'P' in English language?"

Crazy, yes?

I know, but we must do it.

So, but it means, if you go like this, and you go, "Okay, it means 'in'," it means to

carry in, wow, to carry in.

When you import something, you carry it in to a country, you carry it in, carry in, okay,

carry in.

All right, so what does export mean?

Well, "ex" means out of, yes, ladies, I'm free, I'm out of a relationship, I have an

ex-wife.

No, I've never been married, but it means out of, so when you're "ex," it means out

of a situation or out of a thing.

So what does this mean?

Well, it means carry, so it means to carry out of, carry out of a country.

So we export goods, we send them out of the country.

Yeah, you're catching it, yeah, yeah, you got it.

I bet you can do passport.

Well, remember, you're going to England, do you have your passport, mate?

Well, "pass" allows you to go places, right, to move.

Passport, you carry a "pass," and that "pass" allows you to go from one country to another,

carry.

And the final one, remember, we said "trans" was to change, right?

Well, what it means is, if you have transport, you own a car, remember the Japanese car we

had?

Well, we transport people.

It takes you from one place and it carries you and takes you to another place.

So, transportation, boom, what does that mean?

To carry and change location.

So by learning what the root is, if we have the smallest idea of what the prefix is, we

can figure out what word we are looking at, okay?

I've got other words to show you, but I don't have the time to do it, unfortunately.

So, transport means, do you remember what this is?

Change or location, location, yeah, okay?

So if you look at that, okay, and all the other words we've done, you have the basic

idea of what "port" means, so every time you see an English word with P-O-R-T in it, you

can go, "Hey, I think it means to carry something somewhere, yeah," all right?

So anyway, I've got to get rid of this, I've got to teleport back home, but before I do

so, teleport means to go from one place to another, magically kind of.

Watch X-Men, you'll know what I mean.

Rate five minutes in that scene, X-Men 2.

Anyway, while I chat here, I'm going to leave some information for you, all right?

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Well, I told you I'm going to teleport, watch, be careful of the blue screens that come up,

I'll be gone.