English Vocabulary in 1 hour: advanced vocabulary lesson

Vanessa: Yes, I would be a great  

candidate for this job because I... Oh, hang  on just a second. I know this word. I know it,  

because I have it together. Has this ever happened  to you? You're having an English conversation,  

maybe an important one, like that job interview,  and you just lose the exact word that you're  

trying to say. Ugh, this is so frustrating. Well,  I have some good news. Today I'm going to share  

with you almost 200 useful English expressions in  one hour. That's right. In the next hour, you are  

going to level up your English vocabulary skills  so that you can express yourself and you don't  

miss out on that great job that you want to get  because you just can't remember the right word. 

Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com,  and today I'm here to help you level up your  

vocabulary skills and I have created  a special gift for you. Like always,  

I have a free PDF worksheet that includes all of  today's vocabulary expressions. You can download  

this free PDF worksheet, review the expressions.  You could print it out, put it under your pillow,  

so when you sleep, you'll be dreaming about  English vocabulary. This free PDF worksheet  

is a gift for you, so please click on the link in  the description. Download that free PDF worksheet  

so that you have access to all of these useful  vocabulary expressions and you never forget them. 

The first category are almost 100 personality  expressions. You will take a personality test  

where you can guess which word you think best  describes you, and you'll meet a couple of my  

friends when we describe each other, where you can  learn even more expressions. The second vocabulary  

category is we will be talking about 100 body  related words. I will be going through my body,  

talking about each word that you need to use  to talk about all of the different parts of the  

body. This is a great way to level up your daily  vocabulary so that you don't have gaps where you  

don't know what to say when you're trying to  speak. Let's get started with the personality  

test and the personality expressions. Let's go. Have you ever taken a personality test? These  

kinds of tests try to tell you something  new about your character, or maybe put you  

into a category. You are a comforter. You are  enthusiastic. You are a pessimist. Personally,  

I hate almost every personality test. Why do I  need a test to tell me about my personality? I  

already know my personality. You probably learned  a lot about me just from that statement. I don't  

need a test. I don't need someone else to tell  me about my personality, but having said that,  

sometimes personality tests can be really  helpful for expanding your vocabulary so  

that you can accurately describe people. Maybe you just got a new job and you want to  

tell your husband about your boss. You want to  explain your boss' character or maybe how your  

boss looks or some things that your boss does,  or maybe you're on a first date with someone  

and you want to tell them the wonderful  things about your personality. You need  

to describe yourself. So in this lesson, I'm  going to give you the vocabulary to accurately  

describe other people and also yourself. Today I want to ask you six questions to learn  

more about your personality. The goal is to choose  some of these nouns and adjectives and create a  

sentence or maybe a couple sentences describing  yourself. If you feel like this is too personal,  

you can create a list for someone else in your  life. At the end of this lesson, I have some  

extra special material. You're going to see a  conversation with five native English speakers  

where we try to describe each other. Hopefully,  this will help to also expand your vocabulary, but  

you'll have to wait until the end of this lesson. All right, let's get started with the first  

question on this personality test.  Personality test question number one,  

are your travel plans generally organized? What  about your home and office? Are they pretty  

tidy? Tidy means clean, things are orderly.  Think about this for a moment. Organized,  

tidy. Does this describe you? Think about this for  three seconds. Choose yes or no. Three, two, one.  

All right. Let's say you decided to say, "Yes,  my travel plans are generally organized. My home  

and office are pretty tidy." What are some  great adjectives we can use to describe you? 

"I'm organized. I'm put together. I have it  together." Here, we're talking about your life.  

You have your life together. It is organized. "I'm  organized. I'm put together. I have it together."  

Or you might say, "I'm A type." A type is compared  to B type, which we'll talk about in just a  

moment, A type means that you are quite orderly.  There is a place for everything in your life.  

You might also add a qualifier to some of these  expressions. "I'm somewhat A type. I'm kind of A  

type. I'm pretty A type." Here, we're lessening  it a little bit. You're not 100% A type. You're  

not 100% organized. "I'm somewhat organized."  Okay, that's fine. Most of us are in the middle  

of a lot of these categories, so it's good to  use these qualifiers. "I'm somewhat organized." 

You might also say if you said yes to this  that your travel plans are generally organized,  

you might say, "I'm a doer, doer. Here, the root  word is do. You do things You don't just think  

about them and wait for something to happen. You  do things, you take action. "I'm a doer." Or you  

might say, "Simply, I'm clean. Things in my life  are clean. I'm a clean person." What if you said  

no to this? "No, my travel plans are not orderly.  Oh, my home and office, they're a wreck." Well,  

what are some adjectives we can use to describe  you? You might be spontaneous or creative. 

What if you are not A type? You are B type. B type  means that you don't always have things orderly.  

Maybe you tend to be slower at doing things.  You think about things a lot. Usually B type  

people might be a little more of the creative,  spontaneous type. That's why you're in this list,  

and then we have some negative words that we can  use to describe these people as well. You might  

be scatterbrained. Here we can imagine in your  head things are not orderly. They are scattered.  

Scattered means unorganized, so if you say to  someone, "You are scatterbrained," it is not nice. 

You could say it about yourself, that's fine.  "I'm scatterbrained," but you don't want to say  

that about someone else. So during today's lesson,  for these words that are definitely rude to say  

to someone else, I put a little star beside  it so that you know, "Ugh, I should probably  

be careful saying this to other people because  these are always negative." And the final thing  

you might say if you said no to this question is,  "I'm not clean. I'm messy. My life is messy. My  

house is messy. Just things are not organized.  I'm messy." Did you write down some words that  

relate to your personality? All right, let's go  on to the personality test question number two. 

Question number two. Is it easy to stay relaxed  even when you have pressure? Do small events not  

change how you feel about the rest of the day?  Maybe a small negative thing happens and who  

cares? It doesn't bother you. You can just easily  forget about it. Think about these questions.  

Is it true for you? "Yes, I can easily stay  relaxed even when there's pressure. Yes,  

I can easily forget about little  annoyances during the day," or,  

"No, it's hard for me to feel relaxed even when  there's pressure." Think about this for you and  

let's talk about some words in three, two, one. What if you said yes to this? "It's easy for  

me to feel relaxed even when there's pressure,  and yeah, if there's small annoying things that  

happen during the day, it doesn't bother me." What  are some words we could use to describe you? You  

could say, "I'm easygoing. Nothing phases me. I'm  optimistic. I'm even-keeled." We talked about this  

word in a previous lesson where Dan and I talked  about our relationship, our marriage together.  

He said that, "I'm even-keeled." This is a great  word. You might say, "I'm confident. I'm calm, I'm  

rational." These are all things that you might use  to describe you. If you said, "Yeah, I can easily  

stay relaxed even when there's pressure," but what  about if you said no to this question? What if you  

said, "Oh, no, I don't easily feel relaxed.  I'm often not relaxed. I'm often stressed."  

What are some words we can use to describe you? We might say, "I'm sensitive." This means that  

things affect you easily. It's not  always a negative thing. Of course,  

it depends on the situation. If you're applying  for a high stress job, you don't want to say,  

"I'm sensitive." It probably means you're not a  good fit for the position, but this could be just  

to describe you personally. "I'm sensitive,"  or maybe you might say, "I'm emotional." Your  

emotions play a big part in your life. Another  way to say emotional is moody. Moody is always a  

negative thing. This means you're in a good mood,  you're in a bad mood, and you're swinging between  

those moods and there's no rhyme or reason. That  means there's no predictability. Oh, one day or  

one moment you feel like this and the next day or  the next moment you feel like this, you are moody. 

This is stronger than emotional. This  is much more negative than emotional,  

so don't tell someone you are moody, especially  if they are moody. It won't go well. Do you know  

what the opposite of optimistic is? You might be  pessimistic. Pessimistic means that the glass is  

half empty. The glass is not half full, the  glass is half empty. This is an expression  

that means you always see maybe the negative side  or, "What if this happens?" You're always asking,  

"What if?" In that negative way. Of course,  it's good to balance being optimistic and  

pessimistic, but these are the two extremes. The next five words mean something very similar  

and they're all negative. I don't recommend  telling someone else that they are these things.  

Of course, you can say them about yourself if you  would like. You might say, "I'm uptight." Tight,  

we can imagine something inside of you is  maybe twisted or tight and inside of you,  

you don't feel relaxed. You are uptight or  maybe you are anxious. You can say, "I'm  

anxious," and that describes your personality,  but you might just be anxious about one thing.  

"I'm anxious about my exam tomorrow." Okay, maybe in general, you're not an  

anxious person, but you're anxious about that  specific activity. That's fine. That's not really  

describing your personality. "Every day, I'm  often anxious." No, it's just one specific thing,  

or you might be high-strung. High-strung has that  same feeling of uptight, anxious, high-strung,  

or you might be a worrier. A worrier. "She is  a worrier. That means that she worries a lot.  

This defines her personality. She's a worrier,"  or we might say neurotic. "He's neurotic. She's  

neurotic. I'm neurotic." This is quite strong.  You are uptight and a lot of things bother you. 

Let's go on to personality test question number  three. There's actually three questions in one  

here. They are, is it difficult to  introduce yourself to new people?  

Do you feel tired after you spend time with a  group of people? Is a good book or a good movie  

more interesting than a social event? Think about  those questions for a moment. Is it difficult to  

introduce yourself to new people? How do you feel  when you get together with a group of people? Do  

you feel tired? Think about that for a moment.  If the answer is yes or no, three, two, one. 

Let's imagine that you said, "Yeah, it's difficult  to introduce myself to people. I think that when  

I get together with a group of people, I feel so  tired. I would rather read a good book or watch a  

movie than go to a social event." If you said yes  to this, let's talk about some adjectives that can  

describe you. You could say, "I'm reserved, I'm  shy, I'm timid. I'm introverted," or just simply,  

"I prefer small groups." I know some people  are like this. They don't like big groups.  

They would rather get together with just one  other person or maybe two or three other people,  

not a group of 20 people. "I prefer small  groups. I'm introverted, I'm reserved,  

I'm shy, I'm timid." These are all great words. What about if you said, "No, I feel energetic when  

I get together with a group of people. I would  rather go to a social outing. Oh, it's no problem  

to introduce myself to new people?" What are some  words we can use to describe you? You could say,  

"I'm outgoing. I'm the life of the party." Now,  for this expression, it's probably better that  

someone else says this about you, just because  it's maybe not so humble if you say, "I'm the life  

of the party." It means that, "Everybody loves me.  People love talking with me." It's probably better  

if your friend said, "Oh, yeah, Vanessa, she's  the life of the party," instead of me saying it  

about myself, but this might be an expression  you can use to talk about someone like this. 

Or you might be the opposite of introverted,  extroverted. You are at ease in social  

situations. You take initiative. You are social.  This word initiative is a beautiful word. We can  

imagine that when there are two people maybe in a  gathering and they both are looking at each other,  

but they don't really want to start a  conversation. The person who starts the  

conversation, that person takes initiative. They  took that opportunity, so if you have no problem  

introducing yourself to other people or maybe  asking questions at a store, you take initiative. 

Let's go on to question number four of this  personality test. Do you often get lost in  

thought and forget your surroundings? Do you  often think about the meaning of life? Do you  

get lost in thought? Things are going on in your  head and you're thinking about those things,  

not the things around you. Do you often think  about the meaning of life? "What is life?" Think  

about this question. Is it true for you?  Is it not true for you? Three, two, one. 

Let's imagine that you said, "Yeah, I do often  get lost in thought. Yeah, I do think about the  

meaning of life often." What are some words we can  use to describe you? You might say, "I'm deep."  

Now, this is an expression kind of like, "I'm the  life of the party," that it's not so humble. If  

someone is deep, this is a compliment. It means  that they have a lot of wisdom, so it's probably  

better for you to say it about someone else. "I  really like talking to my cousin. He's so deep.  

He has such interesting thoughts," instead of  saying it about yourself. You might also say,  

"I care about finding truth." This is another way  to say deep. "I care about finding truth," or you  

might be the kind of person who is critical. "I'm  critical of things. If someone tells me something,  

I often question it. Is it true? Is that real?" On the negative side, you might say cynical.  

Cynical is always a negative word, and that  just means that yes, that person asks questions,  

but they always doubt. They're not just asking  questions, but they're always doubting. "Ugh. Is  

that true? Oh, there's no way that that's true."  They're cynical. They're always doubting. If you  

often get lost in thought, you might say, "I'm  a dreamer. I often like to daydream. I'm lost  

in my own world. I live in my head." They're not  things that you want to say in a job interview,  

but they're not necessarily bad, so you can say  them to your friends or say them about yourself. 

If you want to say this in a negative way,  you could say, "I'm a million miles away," or,  

"She's a million miles away. She's not paying  attention. She is a million miles away." That's  

pretty negative, and then if you want  to be really negative, you could say,  

"I'm an airhead." We can imagine your head is  filled with nothing but air. "I'm often lost in  

thought and I forget the things around me. I'm an  airhead." This is a similar category as someone  

who often thinks about things, but it's quite  different from being deep. If you're deep, your  

head is filled with a lot of thoughts, but then  on the negative side, you might say, "Airhead,"  

for having no thoughts. You're often lost in your  own world. You're often in your head, but you're  

not thinking about anything, just an airhead. What if you said, "No, I'm not often lost in  

thought. No, I don't really think about the  meaning of life that often. Life is life.  

Whoa. Why would I care what the meaning of life  is?" What would you say on the other side? You  

could say, "I'm alert." You don't often get  lost in your thoughts because you're looking  

around. You are alert to the things going  on around you. You notice little details.  

Maybe people who are lost in thought, they're not  thinking about the physical details around them.  

They don't realize, "Oh, there's a cup over  there. Oh, my friend just walked by." But if  

you are alert, you're noticing those things. You might also say, "I'm detail oriented."  

You notice lots of little details or you might  say, "I'm astute." These are great things for  

a job interview. "I'm detail oriented. I'm alert  and astute." This means that you will not forget  

little things because you are organized. You  are able to keep track of physical details.  

Similar to alert, you might say, "Aware, I'm  aware of my surroundings." You're not lost  

in your head. You are aware, or you might be a  realist. A realist, this is quite the opposite  

of somebody who's thinking about the meaning of  life. "Well, if I think about the meaning of life,  

I'm never going to really find out, so why would  I waste my time?" A realist would say that,  

so if you think that you might be a realist or you  might just be practical. Practical and a realist  

are both quite similar. You are practical. You're  not going to waste your time if you know that  

something won't be profitable or won't be helpful.  "I don't think it's really helpful to contemplate  

the meaning of life. I'm just practical." This  might be something you can use to describe you. 

Let's go on to the next question. Personality test  question number five. When you want something,  

do you often not change your mind? When you  want something, do you often not change your  

mind? Think about this. Is that true for you?  You don't change your mind or, "No, sorry,  

I changed my mind. Well, it's not so serious  for me." Think about this. Three, two, one.  

Let's imagine that you said, "Yes, it is true  for me. When I want something, I don't often  

change my mind." What are some words we can use  to describe you? We could say you are diligent,  

you are motivated. "I want to study English.  I'm going to become fluent in English. I'm  

going to feel more confident in English, and  I will be diligent. I will study every day.  

I'm motivated. I will study every day." You want  something and you are not going to be distracted. 

These are positive expressions. They're great for  job interviews. They're great general personality  

traits. There's some negative ways to describe  this as well though. You might be stubborn or  

we have a lovely idiom, stubborn as a mule, or  we might say you are headstrong. Headstrong.  

This means stubborn. When you want something,  you often refuse to think about other options.  

"I want this. I want this. I want this. I'm  not going to think about other things. I'm  

stubborn," or you might be adamant. Adamant,  this means that you stick with your opinion. 

Let's imagine that you are a teenager and your  mom says, "I heard that you were drinking beer  

with some friends behind the school," and you  say, "No, mom. I wasn't doing that. I don't  

know who you were talking with, but it wasn't  me behind the school doing that," and she says,  

"Well, I heard from this person that you were  doing it," and you stick with your opinion. "No,  

it wasn't me. It wasn't me. There's no way that  was me." You are adamant that that person was  

not you. You are adamant about something.  This means that you refuse to change your  

story about something. You are adamant. You also might be opinionated. You have  

opinions and you're not really afraid to share  them. This isn't necessarily a negative thing to  

be opinionated, but of course, if you are  opinionated, if you have strong opinions,  

especially if these are opinions that are  not shared with a lot of other people,  

it's great to be careful about how you present  them, about how you share them with other people  

so that they don't think that you are pushy.  Pushy is always a negative thing. If you are  

opinionated, you need to talk about it in a  specific way so that you don't become pushy,  

pushing your opinions on people. You might be persistent. This is  

similar to adamant, but it's in the negative  way. You are persistent. "I wasn't drinking  

behind the school. That wasn't me." You are  persistently keeping with the same opinion,  

persistent, or maybe you have a three-year-old  and that three-year-old is asking for candy. "Oh,  

I want candy, mom, I want candy. I want candy."  That three-year-old is persistent. They are  

wanting it and they're telling you again and again  and again. You might hear the word bossy. "I'm  

bossy. She's bossy. He's bossy." This is similar  to persistent, adamant. You're telling someone,  

"You should do this, you should do this.  You do this, you do this," like a boss,  

but usually if you're a good boss, you don't act  like that. You're much kinder, but we use the term  

bossy for people who have an opinion and they're  not willing to change it in this negative way. 

What if you said the opposite thing  to this question? What if you said,  

"Actually, sometimes I do change my mind. I  don't always stick with exactly what I say  

I want every single time." What are some other  words we can use? You could say, "I'm flexible,  

I'm compliant, I'm reasonable, I'm open-minded,  I'm agreeable." These are all positive things,  

but what if we take this to an extreme?  You might say, "I'm submissive,"  

and this means that you never stand up for  yourself. To stand up for yourself means that you  

have something you want and you never tell other  people. You are submissive, maybe too submissive,  

or we can use a great expression. "I  often get walked on, get walked on." 

If you have an opinion and you always change  it depending on what other people want, we can  

imagine that you are like a doormat. This is the  thing that you walk on to enter a house. This is  

you. People are always walking on you. "I often  get walked on." Your desires, your needs often get  

forgotten because you don't stand up for yourself.  "I often get walked on." You could say that about  

someone else. "Yeah, he often gets walked on  because he doesn't feel comfortable standing  

up for what he wants. He doesn't feel comfortable  pushing what he wants, so he just gets walked on." 

Let's go to the next question, question number  six. This is our final personality test question.  

When people come over to your house, when guests  come to your house, do they feel comfortable?  

Do you go above and beyond what is necessary to  take care of them? This is a great expression.  

Go above and beyond. Maybe it's necessary to give  them a glass of water. Okay, when a guest comes to  

your house, you say, "Sit on the couch. Here's  a glass of water," but maybe you go above and  

beyond. You do more than that so that your guests  feel comfortable. Is that true for you? Do your  

guests feel comfortable? Do you do more than is  necessary? Think about that for a moment. Is it  

true or not true for you? Three, two, one. Let's say that this is true for you,  

that you make your guests feel comfortable  and you do more than is necessary. Let's talk  

about a lot of adjectives that we could use to  describe you. You are hospitable, nice, friendly,  

but here's a big warning. If you come from France,  Italy, Spain, Brazil, Portugal, these romantic  

language countries do not, warning, warning,  warning, do not say sympathetic. You do not say,  

"He is sympathetic. She is sympathetic." This does  not mean nice in English. This is a false friend,  

and I hear a lot of people say this. Instead,  in English, we do have the word sympathetic. 

This means that maybe your brother lost  his job and when you go over to his house,  

you bring him some flowers and you bring him  a meal and you sit down and talk with him,  

and you talk about that difficult, hard time  in his life because you are sympathetic to his  

difficulty. We usually have a difficult situation  happening and you didn't personally experience  

that difficult thing, but you feel his difficulty,  you feel his pain. You are sympathetic. 

So here we're using it in a completely  different sense than friendly. Friendly just  

means you're nice, but if someone has a difficult  situation, you are sympathetic to their problem,  

you understand? "Oh, I think my brother's  really sad right now. He's probably worried  

about the future." You are understanding  his difficult times. I hope I explained  

this word sympathetic so that you do not use it  and say, "Vanessa, you are so sympathetic." No,  

no, no, no, no. Don't use that. All right, what are some other words  

we can use? You could say, "I'm compassionate,  I'm considerate, I'm generous." This means you  

give maybe your time or your money to  other people. You could say, "I'm warm,  

I'm warmhearted." This means that people feel this  warm feeling when they're with you. They feel like  

you're such a friendly person. You could say,  "I'm helpful. I'm down to earth." Down to earth  

is an expression that we use to mean you are  relatable. People feel like your life is not  

so different from theirs. You often hear this  word described with celebrities, celebrities,  

movie stars. They have lives that are much  different than our own, so they seem untouchable,  

so different, but maybe there is one celebrity  who relates to the problems of normal people. 

Someone might say, "Oh yeah,  she's really down to earth.  

She's down to earth. Her feet are on the  earth. She's down to earth." Or you might say,  

"She's sincere, she's genuine. She's  really herself. She's not faking it.  

She's dependable or I'm dependable." Your  friends know that they can depend on you.  

What if you said no to this? I imagine that you  probably didn't say no to this about yourself,  

but you probably know somebody like this, so  let's talk about the opposite. Someone who is  

maybe not so generous, not so considerate or  so friendly. Let's talk about the opposite. 

Maybe someone who is unpleasant. This is  a little bit of a nicer way to say, "Ugh,  

they're so annoying. They're such a terrible  person." You could just say, "Yeah, he's kind of  

unpleasant. I don't really like working with him."  Unpleasant, or someone might be selfish. They're  

not generous. They don't like to go above and  beyond. They're selfish or maybe you know someone  

who is self-centered. The world revolves around  their life. They're self-centered. Their self is  

the center of the universe. They're self-centered. So how did you do? How did you answer all of these  

six personality test questions? I hope you  wrote down some adjectives that you can use to  

describe yourself. Write that sentence down in the  comments, but before we go, I'd like to share some  

extra material with you today. You're going to  see five native speakers. They are three friends,  

plus my husband, plus me. We are attempting to  describe each other, so I sat down with each  

of my friends individually and asked, "How would  you describe this person? How would you describe  

that person?" I didn't tell them specifically to  describe their personality or their character,  

but you'll see that a lot of these people,  they did describe their physical appearance  

a little bit, but most of these descriptions  had to do with their personality or character. 

You're going to hear some of the words that we  just talked about and maybe you'll hear some  

new words as well. Let's start with my friend Liz.  You're going to meet Liz, Heather, Lauren and Dan.  

They're going to be describing each other. Let's  see what everyone has to say about Liz. How do  

they describe Liz? Let's watch. Liz: 

Hi, I'm Liz. Heather: 

Gosh, Liz is witty and sarcastic to a fault. Vanessa: 

I'd say so. Heather: 

Super inquisitive and very... I would say  literate is a very good description of her. 

Vanessa: For sure. That's something  

that I first recognized about Liz, is she's  really inquisitive. She asks great questions. 

Heather: She's curious about life. Yeah, very much.  

I would say she's adventurous for some things. Vanessa: 

Oh. Heather: 

Like travel or things like that. Not so much  food, I think that, and she's very loyal,  

very loyal friend. Lauren: 

Liz is very sarcastic. Vanessa: 

Okay. Lauren: 

And smart, quick-witted. She's funny  and she has nice pretty long brown hair. 

Vanessa: That's true. 

Dan: I would describe Liz as very curious. Out  

of many people I know, not many people will ask  you questions a lot. When Liz asks you a question,  

she'll ask more and more questions, which  I'm not hating on. I think it's great. 

Vanessa: Yeah. 

Dan: She's also very assertive, so whenever  

she has an opinion, she usually makes it very  clear. It's not hidden in any way. She's also very  

friendly though, so the assertiveness doesn't get  in the way of her friendliness. Her friendliness  

shines through. Vanessa: 

You just heard some amazing adjectives to  describe the wonderful person of Liz. Let's  

go on to the second person. You're going  to meet Heather, and let's see how everyone  

describes Heather. Heather: 

Hi, I'm Heather. Liz: 

Heather is a short little person and  she has brown hair and amazing freckles,  

and she's very creative and she's  an introvert. She's a good painter.  

She's very smart, she's well traveled. Vanessa: 

Those are all true things. Lauren: 

Heather is short like me, and she's dry humored,  so very subtle, also very smart and well-traveled.  

She's lived in lots of different places. Dan: 

Heather, Heather is very reserved yet when you  get to know her, she's very fun-loving. She's  

also very curious. She's kind of geeky. She likes  Harry Potter and Star Wars and stuff like that,  

but yeah, she's very fun and if you get  together with her at a party, you're going  

to have a good time. Vanessa: 

I hope you enjoyed those adjectives to describe  Heather. Let's go on to Lauren. How does everyone  

describe Lauren? Lauren: 

Hi, I'm Lauren. Liz: 

Lauren is also a short little person. She's got  blondish brown hair, a darker shade of blonde. She  

has glasses. She, to me is very business-like, and  she likes to tell stories with a lot of details,  

which are always interesting. Heather: 

Lauren is short, with short hair,  glasses, and I think she's a geek. 

Vanessa: Could you explain what you mean  

by geek? Is that her interests? Heather: 

Yeah. It's a little bit about her interests. She's  like Liz, curious about different knowledge and  

stuff. She loves Star Wars. Vanessa: 

Harry Potter- Heather: 

Exactly. Vanessa: 

That kind of stuff. Heather: 

Harry Potter. Movies, she's definitely a movie  buff, and she can remember almost everything,  

all these weird random details. Vanessa: 

Her mind is like a steel trap. Heather: 

Yes. Vanessa: 

She knows everything. Heather: 

Yeah. I think she's also a very  loyal friend and very caring. 

Vanessa: Yeah. Yeah. I've been friends  

with her for 10 years- Heather: 

Yes. Vanessa: 

And I feel like she is that kind of person. Heather: 

Yeah, she makes an effort. Vanessa: 

Yeah. Heather: 

She makes an effort in her relationships, I think. Vanessa: 

Yeah, that's a great quality. Heather: 

Very good. Yeah. Dan: 

Lauren, Lauren. Lauren is very loyal,  I would say. When she's your friend,  

she's your friend for life. She'll remember you  and she's very detail oriented. She'll remember  

all the details of your relationship. I  don't mean this in a bad way. I just mean  

there's always somebody in your life who  gives all those details about your life,  

and she also knows a lot about... From my  perspective, a lot about pop culture. She's  

always filling me in on the details and maybe I  understand something that she also understands,  

and we can have a funny conversation about  that. Usually Vanessa doesn't understand. 

Vanessa: Yeah, I don't know much  

about pop culture, so Lauren is my window into  this world. She helps me to learn that stuff. 

I hope you learned some great words with those  explanations. Let's go on to my husband, Dan,  

and see what everyone else has to say about Dan. Dan: 

Hi, I'm Dan. Liz: 

Dan. Dan is so fun. Dan is this tall,  skinny ginger. He's got very great,  

amazing red hair. He always has a lot  of energy. I feel like he's always like,  

"I'm Dan." Vanessa: 

He does have a lot of energy. Liz: 

He, I feel like has a lot of strong opinions about  things, which I really like, and he's married to  

you and has a baby. Vanessa: 

That is true. Those are all true facts. Liz: 

I feel like he's very relaxed in some ways,  but also cares about details in other ways,  

which is hard to describe, but it's true. Vanessa: 

That is true. Heather: 

Dan is a tall, skinny redhead. Vanessa: 

That is the first thing Liz said too. Heather: 

I think he is very creative and I would  probably describe him as adventurous,  

not afraid to take risks.  Inquisitive, opinionated.  

I think he has opinions and he's set in  his way, but I think he's also open for  

discussion. Vanessa: 

Okay. Lauren: 

Dan. Oh, Dan. Dan. Vanessa: 

Other people said that too. Dan. Oh, Dan. Lauren: 

Dan is thin and he has red hair, very red hair,  and he can be loud and enthusiastic. That's a  

good word for Dan. Vanessa: 

Enthusiastic. Lauren: 

He's very intelligent too and adventurous. He's  been to lots of different things and learning.  

He likes to learn. Vanessa: 

Those were some great adjectives to describe Dan.  Oops, I forgot to say that my friends are also  

going to describe me. Here we go. Liz: 

You. You're just so delightful. That was my first  

word for you. Vanessa: 

Oh continue! Liz: 

Not just because you're in the room,  but because you are just delightful. 

Vanessa: Aw, that’s so nice. 

Liz: You have a very effervescent personality. 

Vanessa: Oh. 

Liz: So I feel like you're very uplifting for  

other people. You bring a lot of joy to people.  I feel like you always seem like you have it  

together. That's definitely my most overarching  impression of you is you have it together. 

Vanessa: Oh. 

Liz: You're also a very good host.  

You're excellent with hospitality. Vanessa: 

Oh, thank you. Liz: 

And obviously we share love of reading. Vanessa: 

Yes. Liz: 

So I know that you're very well-read, and I like  that you get very interested in specific topics.  

Whenever we read a book, she's like, "I went and  did research and I found this out and this and  

this," and it was just very interesting. Vanessa: 

I think that's quite true that when I'm  interested in something, I'm really interested. 

Liz: You go all the way. 

Vanessa: Yeah, I just go into it.  

Yeah. Well, thank you for your kind words. Liz: 

Yes. Heather: 

Vanessa. Liz: 

Tell me what you think? Heather: 

I think you're probably one of the kindest people  

I've ever met. Liz: 

Aw. Heather: 

Yeah. I think you're just very genuinely nice. Liz: 

Aw, thanks. That's pretty sweet. Heather: 

Tell you, it could be wrong. Vanessa: 

When you're not around, Heather, I'm evil. Heather: 

I think you're also very  inquisitive and very literate. 

Vanessa: I like to read. 

Heather: Yeah. I think you're very curious about the  

world and people like Liz. I think where you and  Dan fit well together is he seems super creative,  

comes up with ideas, but you're very good at  implementing ideas. I think you're good at  

keeping people on task. Vanessa: 

Oh, okay. Like focusing on the point. Heather: 

Yes. Vanessa: 

Oh, yeah. Heather: 

I think you need that. You run your own  business, so I think that is a good quality. 

Vanessa: Yeah, got to be able to focus. 

Heather: Yes, exactly. 

Vanessa: That's great. 

Heather: I think you are very good at having fun,  

but also getting the work done. Vanessa: 

Be serious when I need to be serious. Heather: 

Yes, exactly. Lauren: 

Vanessa is kind and warm and likes to learn as  well. Well-traveled also, and you have pretty  

brown hair too. Vanessa: 

Thank you. Dan: 

Vanessa. Vanessa: 

No pressure. I'm your wife.  I'm [inaudible 00:40:09]. 

Dan: Number one adjective is wonderful. 

Vanessa: Oh, thank you. 

Dan: Vanessa is probably the nicest person on earth. 

Vanessa: Oh. 

Dan: And by nicest, I mean also just  

sincere. She's always very sincere, very caring,  very curious, always sincerely interested in most  

people's topics. I'll hear even a boring person  say something and she'll be like, "Oh, wow, very  

interesting," and I don't think she's making it up  either. I think she's seriously very interested. 

Vanessa: Yeah, life is interesting. Everyone has  

something interesting if you listen close enough. Dan: 

Yes. But yeah, she's also very fun.  Very fun-loving. You can do a lot  

with her. Obviously, I like Vanessa  a lot because I decided to marry her. 

Vanessa: I'm glad you like me a lot. 

Dan: We get along very well and I like,  

yeah about 99% of Vanessa. Vanessa: 

Congratulations. You just learned almost 100 words  to talk about personality in English. Next, let's  

focus on body expressions. You're going to learn  100 body expressions, level up your English and be  

able to express yourself completely. Let's watch. Let's get started by talking about the top of  

our head and working down to our feet. Let's  start with the head. There's a lot of words  

to talk about. This is my head. We have  a great idiom that goes along with this,  

which is off the top of my head, I couldn't tell  you how far the earth is from the moon. Off the  

top of my head, this means without doing  research, just having the knowledge in my  

head. Off the top of my head, sorry, I couldn't  tell you. I don't know. Off the top of my head,  

I have no clue. What's on my head? It's hair. So we could say, "I have brown hair or I am a  

brunette." This is most often used for women. You  could say it for men, but brunette is most often  

used for women, or we could say, "He has blonde  hair. She or he is a blonde." Or, "He has red  

hair, he's a redhead," or we sometimes say, "He's  a ginger." Sometimes people who have red hair  

don't like this expression. My husband is a ginger  and he doesn't care. This expression is fine with  

him, so maybe just listen out for it. Or you could  just say, "He's a red head. He has red hair," or  

you might have black hair. Under your hair, we  have your scalp. Your scalp is the skin under  

your hair, and then moving down, we have your  forehead. Forehead. Then we have your eyebrows,  

your eyebrows, your eye lids, and your eyelashes. I want to take a quick note for my Asian  

followers. In the Asian world, it is somewhat  common to talk about some different terms for  

your eyelids. When I lived in South Korea, I heard  my Korean co-workers when they were speaking in  

English, I heard them use the terms mono lid and  double eyelid in their English conversations,  

but I just want to let you know that this  concept is relatively unknown to most of the  

English-speaking world. This is something that's  much more common in the Asian part of the world. 

So if you were to have a conversation  with someone in English and you said,  

"Yeah, he has a mono lid or a double eyelid,"  most other people in the western world are not  

familiar with this concept, so we just call this  the eyelid. These are my eyelids. My eyelids and  

my eyelashes protect my eyes, my eyes. There's  a great idiom we sometimes use, "Don't roll your  

eyes at me. Ugh." Have you ever done that? Have  you ever done that to your parents? If you have  

rolled your eyes at your parents, they most  likely said to you, "Don't roll your eyes at  

me." This is a common phrase that parents say to  their children, "Don't roll your eyes at me." Ugh,  

that's rolling Your eyes. Under my eyes, I have my cheeks,  

my cheeks. Babies have cute cheeks that we love  to pinch cheeks. And moving over here are my ears,  

my ears. So these are my ears, but this is my  ear lobe. Some people have a pierced ear lobe,  

so I do. These are pierced ears and my ear lobe is  pierced. There's another idiom we use, which is,  

"I'm all ears." If you have a suggestion for  a YouTube video that you'd like me to make,  

I'm all ears. This means I'm willing to listen.  I'm interested in what you have to say. I'm all  

ears. I have no mouth, no nose, no eyes. I'm  all ears. I'm going to listen very carefully. 

And then we have my nose. This is called the  bridge of your nose, and these are my nostrils.  

My nostrils. Under my nose is my mouth. This is  the general word for this area, but there's a lot  

of specific words to talk about these parts,  so let's talk about it. My mouth, my lips  

are on the outside, my lips, and when  I open my mouth, there are my gums.  

The skin on the inside of my mouth is my gums, and  then there's my teeth and my tongue. And there are  

some fun idioms we can talk about with the mouth. Let's say that you tell your friend that you're  

going to have a surprise birthday party  for your sister. Your friend might say,  

"Oh, don't worry. I won't tell her, my lips are  sealed. That means you can't open your mouth. "My  

lips are sealed. The secret is safe with me." It's  a great expression to let the other person know,  

"Don't worry, I'm not telling anyone. My lips are  sealed." What do you do with your mouth? You eat.  

So if you love sweet things, maybe you have  a sweet tooth. This doesn't mean just one of  

your teeth is sweet, but this just means I love  sweet foods. I have a sweet tooth, so I have to  

keep sweets out of my house or else I'll just  eat them all the time. I have a sweet tooth. 

And before we move on to the rest of the upper  body, let's talk about one more idiom about your  

tongue. This expression is extremely useful for  English learners. What if I said to you, "Oh,  

what's the name of that movie with the pirate?  Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue." Oh, do you  

get the idea that I know the movie? I just can't  think about it right now. So the name of the movie  

with a pirate is right there. It's on the tip of  my tongue. I just can't get it out. "Oh, I just  

can't remember. What's the name of that movie with  the pirate? Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue." 

So if there is a word that you don't remember in  English, you might say, "Oh yeah, the skin in your  

mouth. Oh, Vanessa talked about that. Oh, it's  on the tip of my tongue. I forget what that word  

is."Oh, well, first of all, you remembered this  idiom. That's great. And just to let you know,  

it's your gums, your gums, but this is a  great expression to you is when you know  

you know a word, you just can't remember it. Under your mouth we have your chin, your chin.  

If I told you, "Keep your chin up, things will get  better. Keep your chin up," this is an encouraging  

statement that you can use to say, "You can do  it. Keep going. I know that it's tough right now,  

but find some positivity in this tough time. Keep  your chin up. You can do it." Great encouragement.  

Under your chin, we have your neck, your neck, and  another wonderful idiom. What if I said for you,  

"I stuck my neck out for her because I felt  like she did the right thing and she needed some  

support. I stuck my neck out for her." You're not  literally sticking your neck out for her, but this  

has to do with the idea that you are supporting  someone even though you might face some criticism. 

So your head is very important to your body,  right? This is a really valuable part of your  

body. So when you stick your neck out, you are  putting your head in a vulnerable position. You're  

sticking your neck out, you're not keeping  it close to you. So that's the idea of this  

idiom. When you support someone, even though  you might face some criticism, you could say,  

"I stuck my neck out for her." Sometimes  we use this if we regret it later, "Man,  

I stuck my neck out for her and she just didn't  appreciate it at all. I stuck my neck out for  

her. I tried to support her even though it wasn't  the popular thing to do, and now I regret it. She  

didn't care at all and it wasn't really helpful." And finally, for your head, we can say your face.  

All of this right here is your face. Have you ever  had a pretty rotten morning? Things just didn't  

go well, but when you walked into the office, you  couldn't be grumpy, you couldn't be in a bad mood,  

you had to put on a face. This implies that  things are going poorly, but you have to  

pretend like everything's fine. Sometimes we say,  "I had to put on a happy face when I walked into  

the office," or we could cut out the word happy  completely and just say, "I had to put on a face  

in front of the clients, even though I had just  gotten yelled at by my boss. I wanted to cry,  

but I just had to put on a face when I talked  with the clients." This is a tough thing to do,  

but we all have to do it in lots of situations  in life. Maybe you have to put on a face. 

All right, let's go to the next section, which is  not your head, which is your upper body. Now let's  

talk about the upper body. The upper body. These  are my shoulders, my shoulders. If I am angry  

at someone, I might give them the cold shoulder.  Ooh, the cold shoulder is never good. That means  

that you ignore someone, you don't talk with  them and you show them that you are angry by  

giving them the cold shoulder. You might  not actually turn your body like this,  

but that's the expression we use. "He gave me the  cold shoulder after I told him what was going on." 

Below your shoulders is your chest, your chest.  And this is the socially acceptable word for men  

and for women to talk about this area. We often  use the term, "Ugh, I just have to get something  

off my chest." If there is a weight on your  chest, it's a burden. It is not a good situation,  

but ugh, when you get something off your  chest, you tell someone something important.  

Maybe you've been keeping in a secret and you  finally can tell someone that you love that  

secret. "Ugh, I just have to get something off  my chest. I love you. I've been wanting to tell  

you this for so long. Ah, I love you. Oh, it  feels good to say it. I'm free now." So that's  

the idea of getting something off your chest. Under your shoulders, we have your armpits,  

your armpits, and they're connected to your arms.  Your arms. If you have to twist someone's arm to  

get them to do something, you had to work really  hard to convince them. I had to twist my husband's  

arm to get a cat, but he finally said yes, and  now he loves that cat. It's actually not true.  

He wanted to get a cat. He had to twist my arm to  get a cat. It means, ugh, I had to convince him  

to get a cat, and now we have one, wonderful. On your arm there is your elbow, your elbow.  

Sometimes we say, "I need some elbow room, some  elbow room." If you're cooking and all your kids  

are in the kitchen and everyone's moving around,  you might say, "Hey guys, I need some elbow room.  

I'm trying to cook here. Can you guys just give  me some space?" That means I need some room,  

some elbow room. Attached to your arm, your elbow  is your wrist, your wrist. This is the joint here,  

your wrist. When I was in high school, I broke my  wrist. It was literally and figuratively a pain. 

And then I have my hand, my hands. When you  give someone a hand, you help them. "Hey,  

can you give me a hand? This box is really  heavy. I need some help picking it up. Hey,  

can you give me a hand and read over this report?  I want to make sure I said it right. Give me a  

hand." And on my hand I have my palm, my palm.  That's the bottom of your hand, and I have five  

fingers. Each of my fingers has a knuckle. My  thumb has one knuckle. Notice the K is silent,  

but my other fingers have two knuckles, knuckles.  You might see in a movie, we don't really use  

this in daily conversation, hopefully not too  much, but you might see in a movie someone say,  

"Do you want me to give you a knuckle sandwich?"  And that means, "Do you want me to punch you?"  

Because your knuckles are like this and it's  a knuckle sandwich. Hopefully you don't use  

that a lot in daily life, but you might hear  it in a movie and now you'll understand it. 

Each of my fingers has a fingerprint and a  fingernail, a fingernail. We have different names  

for each of our fingers. Do you know what they  are? This is my pinky finger. Sometimes we say  

my little finger, but almost always do we say my  pinky finger. My ring finger, and that's because  

we often put our wedding bands on this finger, my  ring finger. My middle finger. In the West, maybe  

in other places as well, it's very rude to show  only your middle finger. That means, "F you. I'm  

so angry at you. Here's my middle finger." So be  careful not to do that. Do not point with your  

middle finger. Instead, point with your pointer.  That's what this finger's called. Point with your  

pointer. And then we have your thumb, your thumb. All right, so we've talked about the hand,  

the arm, your chest. Sometimes we  talk about this as your chest area,  

especially if we're being a little bit vague with  women. You might say, "Oh there, there's something  

on your chest area." Maybe there's like a stain on  your shirt, but you don't want to point, you don't  

want to be rude. You might just say, "Oh, there's  something on your chest area." It's not talking  

about your skin. It's just in this general area.  So that's a very polite way to talk about this. 

And we sometimes use the term collarbone for this  bone here. My collarbone. "Oh yeah, I just slammed  

into a drawer and I hit my collarbone. It really  hurts." This is my collarbone. Sometimes schools  

will have a dress code that says, "You need to  cover your collarbone." So that's what they're  

talking about. And in your chest area, we have  your ribs. Your ribs, that's the bones here. And  

sometimes we use the more technical term, your  rib cage. Your rib cage. "I bruised a rib. Ugh,  

that hurts my ribs. Ugh, it hurts my ribs  to laugh so much." This is your ribs. 

Below your ribs, you have your belly button. If  you are human, you have a belly button. This is  

what connected you with your mother when you  were in the womb. You have a belly button and  

this area is usually called your stomach,  but sometimes we call it your belly. This  

is especially for children. "Oh, your belly  hurts. Oh, this is my belly." But we often  

use an idiom that uses another word and that  is your gut. Technically, your gut is inside  

you. That's like your intestines and your  organs inside you. We're not going to get  

to that. That's too detailed right now, but  we sometimes use the phrase, trust your gut. 

This doesn't mean that you are using your rational  brain. You're just trusting your instincts. So if  

you thought, "Should I join Vanessa's course or  not? Well, this is how much money it is. This is  

what I saw on the website. Now I'm just going to  trust my gut. I know Vanessa is a nice teacher and  

I think it will be useful. I'm going to join the  course." Great. Well, you can join The Fearless  

Fluency Club here. Trust your gut. That means,  "I'm just going to trust my instincts and do it." 

All right, let's move on from the head, the upper  body and talk about the lower body. All right,  

now let's talk about the lower body. These are  my hips, my hips. And if you want to talk about  

this area in a polite daily conversation type  way, we often just say private parts. This is  

something that's common for children to say,  and I think this is something that's common  

for adults to say as well. Of course, we don't  usually talk about this area in the workplace  

just in general, but if you are going to use  a polite term, we would say private parts. 

We sometimes use the word crotch, but this is  mainly for men and it's mainly used to say, "Hey,  

don't hit me in the crotch." Of course, talking  about this area is not professional. So in the  

workplace, of course, none of these words apply.  But in daily conversation those are words you'll  

definitely hear and they're not considered  rude. You'll also hear the term groin used,  

and this specifically has to do with the muscles  on the inside of your legs. Like in this picture,  

and it's most commonly used to talk about when you  hurt your groin. So you might say, "Ah, I pulled  

my groin when I was doing yoga yesterday." So it's  used to talk about maybe some kind of pain. If you  

go to the doctor, you can use that term to talk  about the muscles on the inside of your leg. I  

know that's a little technical, but you will use  this and hear this in daily conversation. "Ugh,  

I pulled my groin and now it hurts to walk." Next, let's talk about your legs. This is my leg  

and my knee, my leg and my knee, and here is my  butt. This is the most general term that we use,  

but sometimes we use backside to be a little more  polite. For my kids, we use the word bum. "Wipe  

your bum. Don't put your bum on the table." We use  those terms to be a little more indirect, but the  

most general term you're going to hear is butt. We often also use thigh to talk about the upper  

part of your leg. My thigh, "Ugh, I bumped my  thigh on the table and it really hurts," your  

thigh. Then below your knee, notice that the K is  silent, below your knee is your shin, your shin.  

This is also a little bit of a technical term,  but we often use shin when we're going to the  

doctor and saying, "Ah, yeah, I just really have  some shooting pains in my shin and I don't know  

what it is."This bone in the front is your shin. Behind your shin is your calf, your calf. Now,  

strangely enough, this is also the word for a baby  cow. A baby cow is a calf. Notice the L is silent,  

but this muscle here, back here is your calf.  "My calves are really sore after going on that  

hike. My calves are so sore." Then we have  your foot, your foot. Just like the hand,  

the foot has a lot of parts as well. We can  talk about your ankle. Your ankle is the bone  

here. Don't twist your ankle. That hurts a lot. For your toes, we don't have a name for every  

individual toe. Maybe doctors do. I imagine  doctors do, but in daily life we just say your  

big toe and your little toe. The other toes are  important, but we don't have a specific name for  

them. So it's your big toe and your little toe.  Then we have underneath your foot is called the  

foot arch, and sometimes we say the arch of my  foot, "The arch of my foot hurts after walking  

for 10 hours yesterday. My foot arch hurts or  the arch of my foot." And the back of your foot  

here is called the heel, the heel. Notice the  spelling is different than to heal, the verb.  

So this is with two E's, heel. "I hurt my heel  and I hope it heals soon." That's your heel. 

What would it mean if I said, "I have a new job  starting tomorrow and I'm going to put my best  

foot forward and be prepared for my job?" To put  your best foot forward doesn't really mean that  

one of your feet is better than the other. It just  means, "I'm going to do my best. I'm going to do  

everything I can to make sure that there is  success. I'm going to put my best foot forward.  

I'm going to wear professional clothes. I'm going  to be in the right mindset. I'm going to get a  

good night's sleep the night before. I'm going to  put my best foot forward." Excellent expression. 

Great work leveling up your English vocabulary  skills in just one hour. Don't forget to download  

the free PDF worksheet, which includes all  of today's vocabulary. You can print it out,  

put it under your pillow, never forget  what you've learned. You can click on  

the link in the description to download  that free PDF worksheet today. Well,  

thank you so much for learning English with  me, and I'll see you again next Friday for  

a new lesson here on my YouTube channel. Bye. But wait, do you want more? I recommend watching  

this video next where you will join me as I pump  gas in my car. You will learn useful vocabulary  

expressions for pumping gas into your car, but  also you'll learn culturally what you should do  

and what you shouldn't do at a gas station in the  US. I wonder what it is. Well, I'll see you there.