Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video I'm going to teach you about vocabulary,
and also a little bit about Western culture. So, there are some words that people are using
a lot these days; you see these words in the news, you see them in... if you go to school,
you see them even at your doctor's office, and so we're going to talk about some of these words. So,
a lot of these words are about problems people are having in their life, so I'm going to teach you
about these problem words and also solution words that you hear a lot. So, let's get started.
The first word I hear a lot is the word "swamped". You hear people in conversation say:
"Oh, I'm so swamped. I have so much to do; I'm swamped." So, what does it mean "to be swamped"?
If you are swamped, it means you have too much going on; you have too much work to do. So,
imagine you have a lot of work, and somebody calls you and says: "Do you want to go see a
movie?" You might hear someone say: "I can't; I'm swamped", meaning: "I have too much to do."
Another word people are hearing a lot these days is the word "burn out", "burn out". So,
you'll hear people say: "I burned out at my last job" or "Mary is suffering from burnout",
"People are burning out nowadays more than in the past." We hear people say things like this. So,
what does it mean "to burn out"? "Burn out" means when you are working too much, so you have too
much work, and you have a lot of stress, and you feel this every single day to the point that your
health starts to be affected. So, work is making you sick. We call that "burn out" because there's
too much stress at work and too many expectations at work, so that's known as "burn out".
Okay, another word you hear people saying a lot these days is: "I'm stressed out. Stressed out".
So, "stress" is a type of anxiety or worry. When you feel stress, you feel pressure. I'll
give you an example. Think about before an exam or a big presentation: Your heart is beating,
you're very nervous, you might feel sick in your stomach - those are feelings of stress. So,
people who feel a lot of anxiety, they can say: "I'm stressed out." And here's my example:
"I'm stressed out because I have an exam", "I'm stressed out because my boss is not
nice." So, again, the words that... Oh, and there's... sorry, there's one more.
"Overworked". So, I hear this word a lot nowadays as well. "Over" means too much, and then we have
the word "worked", which means work; you're doing work. So, "overworked" means too much work. So,
maybe somebody is working 80 hours a week - we can say: "They are overworked." They work too much.
So, you hear these words a lot in our culture. People frequently talk about being swamped,
they talk about burning out, they talk about being stressed out, and they talk about being
overworked. So, I also wanted to talk about some things we talk a lot about in our culture, and
that's what the solution is to these problems. So, when I talk about solution, I'm talking about
what people in the media, in the news, maybe what some doctors are saying,
what journalists are saying are the solutions to being swamped, burnt out, stressed,
or overworked. So, a question people might ask you is: "How do you cope with stress?" So,
"cope" is an important word; it means: "How do you handle stress? How do you deal with stress?" So,
for example, some people cope with stress by breathing; taking deep breaths. So, I can say:
"I cope with stress by breathing deeply." Some people might cope with stress by writing down
their feelings. These are different ways to cope. So, my question to you is: How do you
cope with stress? Now let's look at some other common vocabulary people are saying nowadays
about how to solve problems with stress. So, another word you will hear a lot in the
culture right now is the word "mindfulness". Maybe you've seen this word before:
"mind-ful-ness". What is "mindfulness"? Well, it means different things to different people,
but in general, it's the idea of where to focus. You focus your mind on the present. So,
the idea is that some people focus too much on the past, some people focus too much on the future;
but according to mindfulness, it's very healthy to think about what's happening now and to be focused
on the present. So, this might be thinking about your senses, you know: "What are you seeing right
now? What are you hearing? You know, how do you feel at this moment?" and not worrying about the
future and not worrying about the past, but just being in the present; in the here and now.
So, I see this word a lot nowadays. I see it in newspapers, I see it online,
I see it even walking down the street; I see posters of mindfulness seminars or, you know,
things to do with mindfulness, so I think it's a very important word to know. And, again,
here is one aspect of mindfulness: People might recommend you focus on your senses, like your
sense of hearing or your sense of smell. So, this word is a noun. The way we use it is often... or
it can actually be an adjective, too. We might talk about a mindfulness seminar. You know,
we might tell somebody to be more mindful if we're using it more in an adjective sense.
Another word we use a lot nowadays is "resilience". So, this might be hard
for some people to pronounce, so let me say it slowly: "re-sil-ience". "Resilience". Okay? So,
what is "resilience"? Well, "resilience" is one of the solutions to burn out,
to having... being overworked, to feeling stressed and swamped all the time. Some people believe that
it's good to become resilient. "Resilient" means when you have bad things happen in your life,
you learn how to be strong and you are strong. So, I'll give you an example of a very resilient
person I know: My grandmother. My grandmother broke both her hips and she also had a stroke,
but she's very resilient. So, this means that even though bad things happened to her,
every day she wakes up and she is able to smile, and live her day, and... and even
though she has challenges, she's very strong. So that's what I mean by "resilient".
Do you know anyone who is resilient; someone who is able to be strong when bad things happen? Maybe
it's a family member, maybe it's you, or maybe it's a friend. So, nowadays we talk
a lot about the word "resilient", which is how we describe a person: "She is resilient", "He is
resilient". And we have the word "resilience", which is the noun. So, here are two examples:
"I want to be resilient", "I want to build resilience." So, in this case, "resilience"
is the noun; "resilient" is the adjective. So, all of these words I've talked about today
you will probably see on social media, online, in... on news sites. So, they're very good
to know and to understand because these words really are telling us a lot about our culture
today. People feel very stressed and burnt out, and people want solutions. So, this is what
the culture looks like, and these are the words people are using to talk about these issues.
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thank you so much for watching. I hope you are not swamped, I hope you're not overworked,
and I hope you have the most amazing day. So, thank you for watching and take care.