Learn the Top 10 English Compliments You Always Want to Hear

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Hi, everybody, and welcome back to Top Words.
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My name is Alisha, and today we're going to be talking about ten compliments that you
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always want to hear.
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let's go!
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I love your cooking.
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This is my personal favorite compliment.
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Oh my God!
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I love cooking, like, I'm always posting pictures of things that I cooked on Twitter, I'm just
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crazy about food.
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So this would be a compliment that I would love to get.
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The ultimate compliment for me, that would be "will you make my birthday cake?"
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That would be such a compliment, like, it's a question but it's there's so much behind that.
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Will you make my birthday cake?
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Ah, you would give that to me?
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So maybe you can use this after a meal, for example, I love your cooking and the other
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person will be like... ^o^
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Next is...
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Great job!
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This is a compliment that you can use anytime.
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You can use it with your friends, with your... not with your boss, your boss might use it
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with you, an employee, a co-worker, or colleague, a pet, even, whatever.
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It's just a very small scale, very easy to use compliment that means you think whatever
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has just happened is good.
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I use "great job" all the time.
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I use "great job" and I use "good job".
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Sometimes when I make a mistake or something funny happens, and I'm alone at my house and
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I want to make fun of myself, I'll be like, yeah great job, Alisha.
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If I'm trying to be positive about a failure or laugh at myself a bit.
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But in general, it's just a good easy compliment to give someone.
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Great job!
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You have a way with words.
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You have a way with words.
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This can be speaking, this can be writing.
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it means you think that the other person is a good communicator or maybe even more so
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than just a good communicator, you think that the way they speak or the way that they write
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is particularly good, so that could mean funny, it could mean romantic, it could mean dramatic,
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something about the way they speak or the way that they write you really enjoy, that
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you can say "you have a way with words."
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It's quite a nice compliment, I think, it's kind of like, you know, it's smart, it's a
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bit of it smart thing, you have a way with words.
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Or you can say, you're good with words, you're really good with words.
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Yep.
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All right, next one...
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You look gorgeous.
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You look gorgeous, a very nice complement to give; just be very careful with the way
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that you say this.
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For an everyday compliment, I tend not to say "you look nice" or "you look gorgeous
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today" or something like that, because the underlying comment there is, on the other
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day that person doesn't look nice.
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So if I want to compliment someone's appearance I try to pick a specific thing, I'm like,
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oh!
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I've never seen you wear that sweater before, it looks nice on you, something like that.
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Like yesterday my friend had a new dress on, and I'm like, "is that a new dress?" and because
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I thought she looked nice, but I didn't want to make it sound like I don't think she looks
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nice every day.
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So I said "is that a new dress," and she goes, yeah; and I said, I think that color is really
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really nice on you, it looks really good, and she was so happy about that.
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So yes, there are these compliments like "you look nice," "you look great," "you look gorgeous,"
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and so on, but I personally kind of prefer to level them up a little bit and just say,
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take a specific thing, like, did you get a new haircut?
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Did you dye your hair?
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Or did you get something, did something happen, like, look whatever it is.
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try to pick up on a specific thing.
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Because then that shows you're paying attention to the other person, and you think that whatever
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they have chosen to do, whatever, like, clothing or whatever haircut, whatever it is, you think
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that they have good sense there too, or good style; so it's kind of like a double, that's
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a very subtle double compliment.
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Yeah.
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The next word is ... You have good taste.
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You have good taste.
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This can be for food, fashion style, for decorating sense, music, in movies, whatever.
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If you think that that person's artistic selection is, in whatever capacity, if you think that
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that person makes good choices with their appearance, or their hobbies, or whatever,
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you can say "you have good taste."
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This is a fairly sophisticated compliment, I think.
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You have good taste for something, like, it sounds a bit more sophisticated, maybe if
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you both choose the same bottle of wine, perhaps.
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like, it has kind of a more formal adult-ish sophisticated feeling about it, this compliment.
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So yeah, maybe wine is a good example of that, yeah.
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Oh! Nice bottle choice, like, I really like, that you have good taste.
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You can follow this, by the way, you have good taste in blah blah blah.
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You have good taste in movies; you have good taste in music.
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if you want to be specific about something that you think that person is really good
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at choosing.
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You have good taste in...
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Now okay, okay, next one is...
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You have a great sense of humor.
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This is the underlying compliment in the phrase, you are so funny, this is the underlying compliment.
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You have a great sense of humor means the other person thinks you are funny, you are
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good at telling jokes, or you make them laugh.
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This is actually one of my favorite compliments to get.
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You have a great sense of humor.
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Yeah, because I think that's like, you know, people like to laugh, so if someone makes
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you laugh, you can say this, you have a great sense of humor, or you're very funny.
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Yeah, it's a good one.
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It's a really good one, so you can say, after a joke, for example, or after maybe you finished
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laughing at something the other person has said, you can say "ah, you have a great sense
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of humor".
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good!
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Next one is...
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Your resume is impressive.
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This is a weird compliment to say to your friends unless you're reviewing your friend's
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resume.
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It's a bit weird, this is something that perhaps as someone interviewing another person for
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a job would say.
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The candidate comes in for the interview, the interviewer says, wow, your resume is
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very impressive, I'd like to ask you a few questions about it.
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Yay!
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So this is good to hear in a work situation.
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Yeah, you really probably won't need to use this with your friends, if you do it's kind of weird.
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Oh wow, this next one is quite a compliment!
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Nobody's ever said this to me.
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To be fair, if somebody said this next one to me I would feel a little bit of like pressure.
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The compliment here is...
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You make me want to be a better person.
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This is something that I think you see in movies from time to time.
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Yeah, I've had one person say like, oh that something you did inspired me, and that was
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like, really like, that was really exciting.
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Like somebody was inspired by something, like wow, that's great, I want to be like you;
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that's a really cool compliment.
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But if someone says you want to make me be a better person, it's like, oh wow, like that
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means I'm really important to that person, which is really flattering.
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But at the same time, if someone said that, I would also be like, if it's like my friend,
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I'd be, like, but I want you to be you, like, I think you're a cool person already.
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Yeah, it's like "oh, you make me want to be a better person;" like in that person's viewpoint,
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you're like somehow above them and that's uncomfortable.
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Yeah, I would rather say "you inspire me," I think that or like "this thing that you
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did really inspired me."
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Like if somebody said like, I saw that picture that you posted on Twitter of that pizza today
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Alicia, and it really inspired me and I made my own pizza.
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I'd be like Yeah!
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Oh!
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next one is nice! actually, I say this to my friends quite a bit.
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You are an awesome friend.
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This is really really good to use after your friend has helped you with something; maybe
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you're moving to a new apartment or new house, or maybe you've had some trouble and your
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friend gave you some good advice, or your friend just listened to you when you really
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needed to talk to someone.
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After that experience you could say, thanks so much, you were an awesome friend!
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Or maybe your friend did something really really cool and you just want to tell them,
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like, I think you're really awesome, say you are an awesome friend, they'll be happy to
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hear that.
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Or just you can abbreviate it to "you are awesome," not just "you're an awesome friend."
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Just "you are awesome," "you're a cool person," "you're awesome," "you're fantastic."
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You are awesome!
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You're an awesome friend!
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Compliments that I want to hear.
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Quite honestly, I feel that any physical appearance compliment is sort of boring to me, honestly,
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when people...
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(I feel ya, I feel ya!)
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Really, I'm just like, okay, great, I didn't do anything to have this body or my face or
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whatever; it's just, it's like, okay, that doesn't mean anything, like, what are we gonna
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do with that?
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It's like if you want to compliment somebody I feel like you should compliment them on
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their skills, something that they have done or something they have created, or something
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about their personality that is valuable to you.
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I think that's a much better compliment.
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So for me I like...
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This is delicious.
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Because I love cooking, so when somebody tells me "this is so good" like, when they say it
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in just that right way, and you can tell that it's real.
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If you can tell that it's true I'm just like, YES!
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When people go "Oh my God, this is so good" like, I've cooked something really really
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well, they say "Oh my God, amazing" or I want to eat your food, that sort of thing.
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When people say that I'm just like "Yes!"
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like that makes me so so happy because that's one of my favorite things to do.
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It's a skill, and it's something like I've worked hard to try to do well.
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So when someone compliments me on that, I get really excited.
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Alright!
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So those are compliments you always want to hear.
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What compliments do you want to hear?
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I don't know, we've talked about personality compliments, and we talked about skill compliments,
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but if you have a favorite compliment, leave it in the comment box.
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We can set a compliment mayhem among the commenters.
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Anyway, positive feelings after this video, everybody's cheered, I think.
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Thanks very much for watching this episode of Top Words, and we'll see you again soon.
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Bye!
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