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Hi there. This is Harry. And welcome back  to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

So in this particular lesson,  this advanced English lesson,  

we're looking at other ways to say new.

I'm going back to the old fashioned way. We've got  ten in our list. Okay, so I'll go through the ten  

and then I'll go back and give you examples  situations when hopefully you can use them.

So the first way to see new is the latest.

The latest edition of Microsoft  is Windows 11. That's the latest.

So it's not completely new. It's just the  latest. The latest update will come through,  

and if you're using Skype, you'll get a little  

message to say there's an upgrade.  That's the latest. The most recent.

The latest edition of this book was only printed

Three months ago. So that's a  new edition. So a new edition of  

the Oxford English Dictionary might be printed  every year to take into account the extra ten  

or 15 or 20 words that they typically add to  the English language every year. So latest.

Fresh. Well, something new. Fresh could be  fresh. Deliveries to the vegetable department  

in the supermarket. Fresh vegetables that we  love to have to love to cook with the nice  

smell and the crisp taste. Fresh or this  fresh bread has just been delivered. And  

you can get the smell of the baked bread just  out of the oven when you walk past the bread  

counter, or you walk past the boulangerie or  patisserie, depending where you happened to be.

Okay, so that fresh the newness  of the bread, you can touch it,  

squeeze it, feel it, smell it.  Okay, really, really new and fresh.

Innovative. Well, that's definitely  new. When something is innovative,  

it is something very different,  unusual, something that somebody hasn't

thought of before. An innovative  way to direct the traffic from  

around the village. So instead of going  through the village or instead of going

or on the motorway, there's  an innovative way of taking

A roundabout route that avoids going through the  village. So that's innovative. Or an innovative  

way of giving people vaccinations. Okay, so  instead of putting needles or sticking needles  

into your arm, perhaps there's an innovative way  to make sure that you get your vaccination. And

it might be something you ingest, something you  taste or spray in the nose. That might be an  

innovative way to vaccinate people, particularly  for those people who don't like needles.

Original.

We often hear this expression there's no such  thing as an original idea. But of course there  

are. Otherwise, we wouldn't have the mobile phone,  and we wouldn't have the internet, and we wouldn't  

have a laptop. So there are innovative and new  ideas and original ideas, and an original idea  

is something that somebody else hasn't thought  of. So you might hear people talking about  

something in the pub, bar and the restaurant  and you go, oh, wow, that's an original idea.

That's really, really good. That's very,  very smart. So an original new idea or a  

different way to do something, because a lot  of ideas and suggestions are very much the  

same as others. A slight little tweak here in  a tweak there. But when something is original,  

somebody goes, oh wow, that's smart,  that's clever, that is original.

Novel. Well, a novel can be a book, of course,  

but a novel idea is something different,  something unusual, something quite strange.

Novel.

So somebody might have suggested a way  of getting to town. So, for example,  

if you're used to taking the car. Yeah, you  do. You have to park, it becomes expensive.  

Or you hop on the metro. Well, that's okay, but  you might it might be jam packed or it might be

on strike.

But a novel way to get to town might be to  get one of these electric scooters. Now that  

would be novel because you can travel.  It's not going to tire you out because  

it's got a battery. And then when you get  to the city centre, you just fold it up,  

stick it under your arm, and off  you go. You can carry it with you.

So it's always there when you need it. So  

that would be considered to be  a novel way to get from A to B.

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Pioneering. But pioneering usually refers  to the first people to do something. The  

pioneers. Loved reading history books about  how the pioneers found the trail to California  

to look for gold. So when  you read the American novels,  

when these people left on their wagon  trains from Boston or somewhere in the East,  

and they went on the Oregon Trail and they  found their way into the, the Rockies.

And then if they started prospecting for gold. So  that was pioneering. That was the new way to go,  

the new world to be discovered. The West Coast of  America, full of promise, but also full of very,

long, detailed problems with the Native  American Indians. So, lots of issues there,  

but pioneering the new way to do something,  something really the first people.

Okay, pioneering

Next number seven state of the art.  Well, when something is state of the art,  

it means it's absolutely very, very new. Nobody  else has it. So when the first mobile phone  

was produced, it was state of the  art. So somebody got the first

call or first message. State of the art.

So then we went on to the iPhone. So when the  first iPhone was introduced, state of the art,  

the use of Skype or other platforms for talking  to each other, state of the art, something very,  

very different, very, very new. Something that  hasn't been seen before. State of the art.

Groundbreaking. We often use groundbreaking,  

particularly when we're talking about medicine or  some invention that is going to help save lives.

So groundbreaking discovery in the treatment  of some cancer. Groundbreaking discovery in  

the battle against these pandemics.  Groundbreaking discovery in the  

treatment of multiple sclerosis or some  other debilitating disease that really,  

really we've been struggling for a long  time to find a solution for. So thankfully,  

we look out for and we hear these announcements  on a regular basis from the large pharmaceutical  

companies who spend millions and millions  and probably billions doing their research.

But you see in the news, groundbreaking  research. Yeah. So they've got something,  

something tested, something developed, something  got through all of its clinical trials. And yeah,  

this going to be sent out to other people to, to  you. So really really good. So groundbreaking.

Up to the minute. Well up to the minute  means as late as possible. Up to the minute.

So up to the minute news. Yeah. So  if you're looking and surfing the  

internet and you're looking for the  latest information about your sports  

team that you support or the latest information on

the

trends or fashion, then you get the up to the  minute news on the internet because all of the  

latest news is published there first. You don't  have to wait for newspapers to be printed anymore.

So all the information you get on these different  sites is up to the minute. It's the most recent,  

it's the latest. Whether it's  about the presidential elections,  

whether about the weather conditions or the  weather for next week, or the situation in  

relation to jobs or the economy, it's up to the  minute, the latest that you could possibly get.

And then finally of recent origin or this is  quite form. When something is of recent origin,  

it means it hasn't been seen as recently or  it hasn't been used recently. For example,  

a game could be of recent origin, and one  that comes to mind for me is the game padel.

Six months or nine months ago  I had never heard of padel,  

and perhaps it has been around for a while, but

now I hear lots and lots of people  playing padel in places like Spain,  

in Italy, even in the Nordic countries.

So it's a game of recent origin,  a game that has been brought to  

the masses very recently. Perhaps  before that it was used and played,

In some areas, but not on a wide scale. So  now it has been brought out to the masses,  

and we can refer to it as a game of  recent origin, something that has just.

come about or just been created recently.

Okay, so there we have our advanced English.

words in connected connection with new,  different ways in which we can say something new.

There's an old expression. Something old,  something new, something borrowed, something  

blue. The. They use it in weddings. So here we're  talking about other ways to say something new.

So here they are again. Latest. Fresh.  Innovative. Original novel. Pioneering.  

State of the art. Groundbreaking. Up to the  minute. And then finally of recent origin.

So lots of nice ways and expressions and words.  So see can you use them? See, can you introduce  

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