Tom, I wanted to use your example sentence in my English essay. Do you think it sounds proper, or is it too informal for writing?: Whenever you go on Instagram and scroll through the masses of photos, you may get the feeling that the society is constantly imposing the image of a flawless, always cheerful life on you.
aww I missed you my dear teacher here is my list: delightful beautiful ornaments endearment bewitching last but by no means least resilience ❤❤❤ sending love to everyone
Some cool words here. Some of my favourite words include: klutz, bereft, reverberate, reverie, sublime, infinity and perplexed. Great video as always, Tom!
I started getting wanderlust after the serendipity of finding your channel and loving English. Before that , I felt discombobulated when I had an English exam, but now I and my brothers work in cahoots and schmooze with my mother to let us use her phone to visit your channel and learn what you teach us. Now, I really wanna head to London in swim in the lagoon. That's spectacular! I watch your videos and snuggle. It's a great epiphany that your channel should be watched everyday. I no more / no longer get flummoxed! I am good at English after I used to be a nincompoop girl. I'm dying to swim in London's lagoons.
After working so hard non stop for quite a while, I was bitten by [wanderlust]. First trip was to London, Bath and Cotswolds. I instantly fell in love with this country and I wanted to know more about it. Feeling the post-trip blues, I was seeking some good way to feel a little close to England and learn about it’s culture & language. But I spent a several weeks without any good ideas and I was completely [discombobulated]. Then, I happened to find Tom on RU-vid by sheer [serendipity]. I was such an [nincompoop]! Why couldn’t I find him earlier! He’s great, fun & smart. Not only his lessons, I enjoy his vlogs. If possible I’d love to watch his vlogs a little more often.
Great job Tom. !!! I have been speaking English for the past 25 yrs but I am still interested to learn more. I read all Churchills books and what I found was interesting his deep knowledge of English Language. His book called « the history of English Speaking People” is probably the best book to understand English history and culture . Just keep in mind the book’s history is from the beginning of England to 1950s . He even received a noble prize for his literature work.
I love the word 'musician' and the words ending in 'sm', such as baptisism, capitalism, etc. Very interesting video! I didn't know the most of them. Its's been serendipity to have found you, by the way!
My favourite english word is "preposterous" (ever since Tom Ellis said it I just liked it) and "extraordinary" (because in every accent you pronounce it differently)
discombobulated is great ! .. and wanderlust, in Italian we have not a word as " wanderlust" we need every time to say "a strong desire to travel." Forte desiderio di viaggiare :)
Here some of the words that accupy my top 10 list : (1)Overwhelming (very intense or overpowering ) (1) scintillating( just brilliantly amusing) (3)Demure (shy or reserved) (4)Swashbuckling (exciting ) (5)Nerve-wracking (something which makes you really nervous) (5)Perseverance (determination) (6)Conflate (merging two things) (7)Flabbergasted (to be stunned) (8)Chuffed (to be delighted) (9)Buzzing (just to b excited about something ) (10)bwetching (amazing) .....Hit me up teacher if i got something wrong cheers !!! teacher
Fun fact, back in the day I would ask chat GPT for loads of C1 or C2 words while preparing for my CAE. Weird thing is that it would always respond 'serendipity' when I asked it for a C1 word...
Oh,what fabulous words! Love them all! I knew all of them-I'm a voracious reader-and you just don't hear them spoken all that often,so it was great to see them on someone's faves list.
Hello Tom! Thanks a lot for your lovely videos and lessons. I really love them! Just came back from London to Saint Petersburg, Russia, for a while. Cheers! Love, Ananda
Many Chinese people have been searching for the counterpart of a certain Chinese word and found none. Some even says such a word in English doesn't exist. I found it. It's serendipity, used very commonly by the Chinese and the Japanese.
What an amazing selection of words you chose! Honestly, I found them really interesting not just in meaning, but in their sounds too. As I found your video quite inspiring, I decided to make up a (crazy) story: Have I told you how I met my husband? It all started with my mother and one of her besties being in cahoots with each other. They wanted to set up a blind date for me, and for that purpose they went online and read many profiles until the finally found one they thought it would fit in with my lifestyle, as travelling is a must for me in a partner, and that particular guy emphasised his wanderlust. That Saturday morning, my mum's friend came by and started talking about a new fancy restaurant that they had opened near our house. I found her particularly enthusiastic about that, which flummoxed me at first, as she is not much of a talker, but I decided to let her schmoozing me into going with her to that new place she couldn't stop talking about. When I arrived there, it was so hectic I must confess I found myself discombobulated for a few minutes because of the constant noise all around. As for my mum's friend, there was no sign of her, so I couldn't stop thinking what a nincompoop I was for having agreed to meet up with her there. Suddenly, by serendipity, I found myself next to a guy who apparently was as lost as I was. He smiled at me and, from that moment on, we couldn't stop talking. I felt I had an epiphany! "Isn't he the most interesting guy I have known so far?" I thought. And certainly he was. A few days later, we found out that we didn't exactly meet each other by chance, but it didn't matter: among all the people in that place, we chose one another. As every relationship, we have had our ups and downs, but that made us stronger as a couple. Lately, since we don't have enough time to travel as much as we would like to, we simply love snuggling on the sofa while we watch one of our favourite films: "The Blue Lagoon".
Some of my favorite words to say are I’ll translate the few that aren’t in English to English: Spinnen (German for be crazy or bonkers), chicanery (English - just saying chicanery, not the meaning), почемучка (Russian for a curious child who asks a lot of questions), flabbergasted (English), Kilig (Tagalog for romantic excitement in a cute/cheesy way), catawampus (English),
Really nice video, I like learning new words. My favourite words are: pathetic hypothesis unleash ludicrous eruption precipitation persevere infinitesimal arbitrary acquiesce and many more but this is all I can think of at the moment.
Hello, Tom!! Cheers for making this blithesome vdo! My favorite words from your list are Discombobulated n Wanderlust! Here are some of my favorite words, Exasperated Horrendous Chaotic Schizophrenia Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Thanks for readin' my comment! Have a splendid day! 😊
Excellent choices, Tom. Not uncommonly, I’ll use “nincompoop” on myself, to add a little self-deprecating humor to a silly situation. For example, I recently put a stack of labels into my printer, then got sidetracked and forgot about them, and then proceeded to print a report on them. When I grabbed the report and instantly realized what a dumb mistake I’d just made, I said aloud, “Oh, good grief! I’m such a nincompoop! I just wasted five pages of expensive mailing labels. D’oh!” That last bit a shoutout to Homer Simpson. But yes, whenever I’m a doofus, numbskull, or nincompoop, I take special care to own it. Cheers! -Phill, Las Vegas
Some of my favourite words: - grotesque - verisimilitude - harbinger - exonerate - vestigial - ethereal - quintessential - eviscerate - nonchalant - kryptonite - mirage - laconic - lexicon - anathema - cacophony - conundrum There are still many more. I usually writes new or unfamiliar words from books, films, or podcasts in my notes. Some I like because of the meaning, and others just because I like saying it.
I already knew some of them (including discombobulated as well) because I love the English language sooo much! And the sounding of certain words are just fascinating :) Btw, my favourite word is: crepuscular
Hello, Tom. I'm glad to see u again here online. I found the term discombobulated a better description for my use of adjectives in English. i. e, in which order should a list of adjectives be used to descrube a single noun? For example, how can I describe a car correctly using all theses adjectives in a single sentence? Expensive, fast, yellow, comfortable, German, classic, diesel engine and famous. Is the rule OPSHACOME always reliable? Thank you teacher. 😊
PianoChess Pi Yes wanderlust is a German word but absolutely old-fashioned and no one uses it anymore. It dates from the epoch of Romanticism and literally translated it means ' desire to hike'. Wanderlust in German it's Fernweh...🤔
No one uses anymore? Where do you live? East Germany? Because here in the west it's used and everbody knows. All the south people I met also knew this.
Bockwurstus Hey, also ich kenne niemanden, der jemals von Wanderlust gesprochen hat. Fernweh, ok. Und überhaupt, was hat das mit Ostdeutschland zu tun?
Two of my favorite words are eccentric and enigma. They just sound awesome! My favorite (so far) in German is Österreich (Austria). It's fun to wrap your mouth around, for some reason. I just love words that sound neat or are fun to say. Discombobulate is a good one, it sounds funny.
What about these ten-plus words? (One of them is akin to or synonymous with "bonus"): 01. Curmudgeon 02. Erudite 03. Extemporaneous 04. Imbroglio 05. Lackadaisical 06. Lagniappe 07. Mesmerizing 08. Parsimony 09. Preposterous 10. Quintessential 11. Reverberation 12. Sophrosyne Thank you.
Haha, I schmooze my parents I don't have a top ten, but I have a top five. Two of them are used to describe a stupid person(one is nincompoop, so that's a wrod we both like!) These are also in no specific order, I'm just writing them down randomly. 5) Clod. I usually use it as a joke when talking to my friends, like, "You clod!". It's also a joke from a cartoon. 4) Lustrous, I just love saying that word. 3) Nincompoop, it's fun to say and I usually end up laughing when I say it. 2) Celestial, like lustrous, I just love its sound. And last but not least, 1) Rambunctious, I don't know why I like that word so much, it's just a nice word to say, I guess. Awesome video as always, Tom! I know it's been a while since this was uploaded, but I'm new to your channel and I'm happy that I found it 'cause your videos are great!
Yet another one of my favorite words is "congeal" or other forms of it. Example 1: I had an array of various fast food items, such as french fries, ketchup, taco meat and gravy, which had congealed into a solid form under my car seat. Example 2: As I use my pokemon T-Shirt as a "catcher mit" for the purpose of ejaculating, almost the entire shirt had congealed into a hardened black and white mat. Example 3: After eating Taco Bell for years, the reminiscences of it had congealed into a cancer bearing tumor in my upper intestine. Example 4: After Linda finished fingering her butt hole, she had noticed that she not only had fresh shit on her fingers, but congealed shit under her finger nails from the night before. Example 5: When a man mistakenly went to Freddy Prince Jr.'s funeral, he had noticed that Freddy had congealed ranch dressing throughout his hair.
I Iove new words, but I am afraid that it is difficult to use these ones (except snuggle) in everyday conversation. The word I love most is ''balmy'' ( Américaine prononciation). Anyway, thanks a lot for your remarquable work and the friendly way you use. I realy enjoy every lesson. Thanks
Epiphany is my favorite. For the first time I’ve heard it from Luca Lampariello, the great Italian polyglot. He uses this word in phrase epiphany point, it’s when you achieve practically advanced level and feel the language.
The only time I've heard discombobulated was the Black Adder when that guy was writing the dictionary and Black Adder was trying to find words he wouldn't have included. Discombobulated flummoxed him.😀😀😀😀😀
I too love these words: 'wanderlust' and 'nincompoop'. This is my list: 1. Comeuppance 2.Covenant 3.Nascent 4.Predicament 5.Quorum 6.Sacrosanct 7.Veritable 8.Wayward
Flummoxed is lovely words that i take. hahaha thats quite often happen to me. Tom, Could i translate this video to be in Bahasa Indonesia? I'll appreciate that.
Brilliant Tom! I enjoyed your video very much. Epiphany is also a Christian festivity held on the 6th of January commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the Magi. It is a greek word meaning appearance. But my favourite word is discombobulated which I find similar to Italian "scombussolato" with the same meaning!
