Learn English - Internet Vocabulary

Hey guys, I'm Alex, thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on internet vocabulary.

In this lesson we will talk about vocabulary that you can find when you are using the internet.

Now a lot of the internet is in English, so this can be very useful and is very useful

and necessary for you guys as internet users.

You're on this website, you're using the internet right now, so this is definitely essential

for you.

Now first up we have the web, the net.

These are just short ways, short forms of saying the internet.

So if I say you can find that on the web, you can find that on the net, I just mean

the internet.

So again, these are just shorter ways of saying the internet.

Okay, the next two vocabulary items I have I want to talk about together.

We have to sign up and to sign in.

Now if you have ever gone to a website where you have to create an account for yourself,

the first thing you have to do is sign up for a website or sign up for a service.

So this is your initial registration.

This is like to register.

Now once you sign up for a website, for example eBay or Amazon, and you have an account with

them, every time you go into the website, unless you save your password, you have to

sign in.

So to sign in is to enter your account.

So to enter your account on a specific website.

Now I'm going to jump down a little bit and go to username.

Now to sign in, you need a username.

So if you have an account with Amazon, usually you can use your email, but I think, yeah,

Amazon and eBay.

I think eBay, you need to use a username.

Now again, your username is your identity.

So it's the name that you use to identify yourself when you sign in to the website.

So the name used to identify yourself.

The next two words here, I'm not going to write the definitions because I know you guys

have seen the first word especially.

You must have seen the first word if you have been using the internet for a while.

Again, to download, to download is to take information from the internet and put it onto

your computer.

So when you save an MP3 file, like a music file onto your computer, you download it.

Upload is the opposite.

You take something from your computer and you put it onto the internet.

So you can upload a video on YouTube or onto the EngVid website.

I can.

You can't.

Anyway, so you can also upload photos if you have a Facebook account, okay?

So again, download, right?

You're taking it from the internet into your computer.

I apologize for this.

Upload, you're taking it from your computer and uploading it to the internet.

Okay, the next one is stream.

Now if you have ever watched a movie illegally on the internet, you have probably streamed

the movie.

So to stream the movie, a movie for example, is not to download it directly onto your system.

Or for example, a better example might be if you watch TV on the internet, you are downloading,

but you are streaming because you're watching it live, okay?

So if you're watching a live sporting event, you are streaming the sporting event, okay?

Okay, next, log out.

So when you sign into an account, right, you enter your account.

When you're finished using it, you log out.

So when you log out, this means you finish using your account.

If you have an email, most of you probably do if you're watching this, you log out when

you're finished checking your email.

These next three expressions, the final three for today, you see the word Google, you see

the word Facebook, you see the word email, and these are words that are definitely associated

with the internet.

Now, Google it.

I'm actually using Google as a verb in this situation.

So I can actually use this word, which is a noun, right?

Google is a website used to search for things.

And if I don't know the answer to something, for example, I want to know when was the movie

The Land Before Time released?

And my friend might tell me, "You know what, I forgot.

Google it."

This means look for the information on Google, okay?

Now, you can also use Facebook as a verb.

So if I tell you to Facebook me, this means message me on Facebook or send me a message

on Facebook.

Now again, it depends how nerdy or geeky your friends are online.

If you do say Facebook me, some people might think that's weird or too geeky, not cool.

I use it because I'm a nerd.

So Facebook me.

Email me.

Again, email is a noun, but you can say, "I will email you," or, "He emailed me."

You can receive an email or you can also email someone or be emailed by someone.

Okay, guys, if you want to test your understanding of these internet terms, check out the quiz

on www.engvid.com.

Take care, guys.

I'll see you in the next video.