Learn English - Internet Vocabulary

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Hey guys, I'm Alex, thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on internet vocabulary.
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In this lesson we will talk about vocabulary that you can find when you are using the internet.
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Now a lot of the internet is in English, so this can be very useful and is very useful
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and necessary for you guys as internet users.
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You're on this website, you're using the internet right now, so this is definitely essential
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for you.
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Now first up we have the web, the net.
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These are just short ways, short forms of saying the internet.
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So if I say you can find that on the web, you can find that on the net, I just mean
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the internet.
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So again, these are just shorter ways of saying the internet.
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Okay, the next two vocabulary items I have I want to talk about together.
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We have to sign up and to sign in.
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Now if you have ever gone to a website where you have to create an account for yourself,
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the first thing you have to do is sign up for a website or sign up for a service.
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So this is your initial registration.
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This is like to register.
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Now once you sign up for a website, for example eBay or Amazon, and you have an account with
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them, every time you go into the website, unless you save your password, you have to
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sign in.
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So to sign in is to enter your account.
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So to enter your account on a specific website.
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Now I'm going to jump down a little bit and go to username.
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Now to sign in, you need a username.
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So if you have an account with Amazon, usually you can use your email, but I think, yeah,
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Amazon and eBay.
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I think eBay, you need to use a username.
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Now again, your username is your identity.
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So it's the name that you use to identify yourself when you sign in to the website.
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So the name used to identify yourself.
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The next two words here, I'm not going to write the definitions because I know you guys
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have seen the first word especially.
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You must have seen the first word if you have been using the internet for a while.
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Again, to download, to download is to take information from the internet and put it onto
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your computer.
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So when you save an MP3 file, like a music file onto your computer, you download it.
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Upload is the opposite.
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You take something from your computer and you put it onto the internet.
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So you can upload a video on YouTube or onto the EngVid website.
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I can.
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You can't.
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Anyway, so you can also upload photos if you have a Facebook account, okay?
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So again, download, right?
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You're taking it from the internet into your computer.
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I apologize for this.
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Upload, you're taking it from your computer and uploading it to the internet.
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Okay, the next one is stream.
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Now if you have ever watched a movie illegally on the internet, you have probably streamed
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the movie.
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So to stream the movie, a movie for example, is not to download it directly onto your system.
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Or for example, a better example might be if you watch TV on the internet, you are downloading,
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but you are streaming because you're watching it live, okay?
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So if you're watching a live sporting event, you are streaming the sporting event, okay?
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Okay, next, log out.
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So when you sign into an account, right, you enter your account.
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When you're finished using it, you log out.
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So when you log out, this means you finish using your account.
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If you have an email, most of you probably do if you're watching this, you log out when
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you're finished checking your email.
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These next three expressions, the final three for today, you see the word Google, you see
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the word Facebook, you see the word email, and these are words that are definitely associated
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with the internet.
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Now, Google it.
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I'm actually using Google as a verb in this situation.
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So I can actually use this word, which is a noun, right?
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Google is a website used to search for things.
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And if I don't know the answer to something, for example, I want to know when was the movie
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The Land Before Time released?
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And my friend might tell me, "You know what, I forgot.
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Google it."
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This means look for the information on Google, okay?
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Now, you can also use Facebook as a verb.
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So if I tell you to Facebook me, this means message me on Facebook or send me a message
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on Facebook.
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Now again, it depends how nerdy or geeky your friends are online.
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If you do say Facebook me, some people might think that's weird or too geeky, not cool.
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I use it because I'm a nerd.
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So Facebook me.
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Email me.
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Again, email is a noun, but you can say, "I will email you," or, "He emailed me."
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You can receive an email or you can also email someone or be emailed by someone.
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Okay, guys, if you want to test your understanding of these internet terms, check out the quiz
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on www.engvid.com.
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Take care, guys.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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