10 NEW English Words 2017 | Not in Your English Course Book!!!

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Guys do you know any of these words?
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Ok, so don't worry guys, if you don't know any of them, don't worry. That's why I'm here,
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to teach you the meanings of all of them. All that is coming right up.
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Eat Sleep Dreamers, welcome to another lesson with me Tom. If you haven't met me before
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I teach fresh modern British English so that you can take your English to the next level
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and achieve your life goals. Now today I've got a bit of a special one for you because
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today we're going to be looking at ten new words that aren't in your course book or your
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text book. Now our course books and text books are fantastic. Don't get me wrong, I love
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them, I think they are really valuable resources. But once they are printed, that's it we can't
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change what's in there. And in English there are so many new words that are coming into
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the language all the time. So I want to keep you guys updated, I want to keep you guys
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informed with the latest English that is widely used. So these ten words are widely used now
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in English. You can see them in spoken English, written English, on social media that's where
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you are going to see them, ok? So hopefully, these are going to be ten words that are going
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to update your English so that you have an understanding of modern British English.
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Our first word is 'millennial', a millennial. A millennial is a noun and it's someone that
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became an adult in the 21st century. So someone now that's in their twenties, roughly. Now
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the exact age range is debated. Some people suggest it's teenagers now, some people suggest
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that it could be as old as thirties so anyone that is between their teenage years now and
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in their thirties could be a millennial. So technically I am a millennial although I'm
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not sure I feel like one. So anyway, a millennial is someone born in this time that has become
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an adult in the 21st century. And they have certain characteristics that are maybe different
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from the previous generation like our parents. You'll see this word a lot in media so in
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news articles, on television people talking about 'what do millennials like to do?' 'How
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do millennials spend their time?' you know, you always see these kinds of questions and
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articles in newspapers, magazines, on tv. 'Are millennials addicted to social media?'
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you'll see these kinds of articles all the time. Ok, let's do an example sentence 'Are
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you a millennial?' Alright, next phrase.
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Number two is another noun 'a troll'. Now we are going to look at the modern meaning
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of troll. A troll is someone online who deliberately says offensive things or deliberately tries
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to cause arguements. So it can be a noun, a troll, or you can have the verb 'to troll'
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as well so 'he's trolling me' for example. This means he is deliberately causing me offence,
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deliberately saying offensive things and causing arguments. It can also be, the noun can be
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'trolling' so 'there's a lot of trolling on social media'. Alright so a troll is a noun,
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a person. Trolling is the larger noun and to troll is the verb. 'There are so many trolls
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on the internet'. I hope you are not a troll, good.
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My next one is 'fake news'. It's a noun and it's describing news that is false, it's sensationalist
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so it's very dramatic. It tries to get you get your attention and it's pretending to
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be real. Usually we find it online, on Facebook or Twitter, something like that. And people
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read it and think it's a genuine true story but in fact someone has manufactured it. They
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have invented it, they've made it up. Maybe to get people to come to their site or maybe
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to cause a problem or issue, to cause a controversy. So who knows why people do it. Fake news,
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it's become a very big thing in the last sort of couple of years. You hear about fake news
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stories. My example sentence 'There's been a lot of fake news recently'
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A start-up. A start-up is a noun. So start-ups are simply a young business, a business that
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has just begun and so you call it a start-up. My example sentence 'There are a lot of tech
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start-ups in London'. Tech means like technology. So 'There are a lot of tech start-ups in London'.
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Here's another phrase from the internet, again it's a noun 'click bait'. So it's an article
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something online that is designed to make you click on it. So maybe it's a very crazy
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story. So for example if it's related to football for example it might say something like 'Lionel
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Messi joins Real Madrid'. And people see that and think 'Wow that's a crazy story, I have
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to click on it'. So they click and then when it goes to the actual story it's not about
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Lionel Messi going to Real Madrid, it's another story or it's nothing to do with that. So
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they have got you to click on their page maybe for advertising or something like that, that's
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probably the motivation. So we think of it as being a negative thing, click bait. An
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example sentence 'There's so much click bait now on the internet'.
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Next one, 'lit'. Lit is an adjective and it means really cool, really good, great. The
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first time I saw it was by a YouTuber called Jake Paul, an American YouTuber and he uses
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it all the time. For example he says 'Today was lit'. I think it's a very American term
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that's kind of come over to Britain and it's being used quite a lot. You'll see it a lot
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on social media. Even when you are on Instagram, they've got a little icon saying 'lit' and
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yeah it means super cool or super great.
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Next one, 'a digital nomad'. A digital nomad is somebody who can work anywhere in the world
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using their laptop or using their computer. So a nomad traditionally is someone who moves
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around from different places and so a digital nomad is someone that uses technology to help
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them to live and work in different places around the world. So a digital nomad. So 'one
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day I'd like to be a digital nomad'.
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This is a great phrase, I love this one. This is 'a thing'. Now a thing, we know the word
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thing, right? We've used it before, but this phrase is really new so let me give you an
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example sentence 'Did you know that hot yoga was a thing?' Now what we are saying here
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is that I didn't know that hot yoga, so doing yoga in a hot room, was a common practice
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or a common thing to do or a common phenomenon. So if we say I didn't know something was a
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thing we're saying I didn't know that it's a phenomenon, that people like doing it. Another
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example 'Growing a beard is a real thing these days' So i'm saying there that growing a beard
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has become a phenomenon, a very popular practice these days. Obviously that's probably not
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true but anyway it's an example of using a thing. So something is 'a thing' it's a popular
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phenomenon a popular thing to do, a common practice.
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Friend zone. This could be a noun or it can be a verb. To friend zone someone. And this
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is to basically put them into the friends category. So they have romantic feelings for
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you but you don't have romantic feelings for them so you put them in the friend zone. So
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for example 'She totally friend zoned me!' And that means she decided she didn't want
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anything romantic, I did but she basically said no we are going to be friends. So to
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friend zone somebody.
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Soloprenuer. A solopreneur, well solo means single or on your own and preneur comes from
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entrepreneur. Now an entrepreneur is someone that starts a business. Yeah so you could
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start a start-up. So a solopreneur is someone that starts a business by themselves. They
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run the business by them self. They don'd have any employees or colleagues, they run
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it on their own, a solopreneur. So 'It's really hard being a solopreneur'. Did you know any
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of those phrases or words? Let me know in the comments below. Have you used any of them.
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If you want to make an example sentence using one of them, then please do and I'll come
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down and I'll check it for you. i'll correct it if I need to. And yeah, are there any other
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new words that you think should be in a course book or text book that aren't yet. Let me
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Thank you guys so much. Remember I've got new videos coming out every Tuesday and every
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Friday just for you to help you take your English to the next level. I can't wait to
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see you next time, until then this is Tom, the Chief Dreamer, saying goodbye.
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