hey everyone I'm Emma welcome to another
English lesson now I know that many of
you are desperate to expand your
vocabulary and start using more
sophisticated English words so today
let's focus on some words that can
inspire inspire you and inspire the
people around you in English there are
many ways to say the same thing you know
a lot of simple vocabulary already which
is awesome but if you want to earn the
respect and the attention of people
around you using interesting thoughtful
and meaningful words is definitely
something that you want to work on
what's a powerful man and the words that
you choose to use tell people a lot
about the type of person that you are
expanding your vocabulary and using
inspiring words can make you more
successful in business in school in life
right
your words can make others want to be
around you they command respect people
are more likely to trust you or to
follow your advice if you use powerful
words and the words that you use don't
just affect others using powerful and
positive and inspiring words will also
have a positive impact on you today I'm
gonna give you 6 inspiring words that
you should learn and start using as soon
as possible I'm going to show you how to
say them because really if you can't
pronounce these words correctly it's
difficult to deliver an inspiring
message right I'll tell you what they
mean and I'll show you how to use them
correctly make sure you turn on the
subtitles down there if you need to and
if you would like to translate this
video for your friends or for others in
your country well that would be pretty
damn cool too the link to do that to
translate the video is in the
description all right let's
start with the word inspire yeah if
you're going to inspire people with your
words you're gonna have to know how to
use them
right if you inspire someone you make
them want to do something you make them
feel confident and excited to try
something maybe something new or maybe
something that they haven't done in
quite a while let's start with
pronunciation first inspire inspire so
that middle syllable is the stressed one
spy inspire in my accent you can't hear
that final AR sound but you would in an
American accent inspire and in the past
it's inspired
now that final D is a soft D sound so
when it's spoken you hardly hear it
inspired inspired so hear how the air
doesn't come out I feel inspired by her
not inspired by her but inspired by her
so I'm catching that sound before I
release it so someone can inspire
someone to do something right a friend
inspired me to run a marathon the
orchestra inspired her to study music
his brother
inspired him to travel the world right
so if someone inspires someone else so
the structure is always the same right
but you can also be inspired by
something she was inspired by her boss I
was inspired by the speech who inspires
you is there someone in your life who
makes you excited to do something and
makes you want to do something tell me
about that person in the comments tell
me who inspires you you can also say
that they're an inspiration or that they
are inspiring so if you're thinking of
someone who wins
as you try to use all of these words all
of these words from the inspire word
family to talk about them now when
you're feeling inspired you may need
some motivation to help you take action
right motivation is the reason why you
want to do something it's all of the
things and the feelings that make you
keep working hard to reach your goals or
to finish something you want to become a
more confident English speaker for a
purpose right it could be to get a
better job it could be to meet people
from other countries to study abroad
maybe you'd love to travel these are all
reasons or your motivation to learn the
language okay
so motivation is like a better more
sophisticated way of seeing reason can
ask people what's your motivation for
learning English now there's a lot of
syllables to pronounce here motivation
so words that end in tion like this one
are usually stressed on the syllable
before last
so it's motivation and listen to that
last syllable as well shin shin
motivation that last syllable is
unstressed the vowel sound reduces right
down to the schwa so it's short and low
in pitch it's not motivation it's
motivation my sister Jill works full
time and she studies medicine at night
school that sounds crazy right but her
kids education is her motivation for
studying at night school now you've got
the motivation let's expand your
vocabulary a little because we can use
the verb to motivate to motivate someone
to do something to also express these
ideas she needs people around her who
motivate and inspire her
Exede there are also two adjective forms
that you need to know the IDI and the
ING forms motivated and motivating as
soon as I lost a few kilos I was
motivated to lose more his speech was
really motivating there is another
adjective motivational motivational he's
a motivational speaker so I'm curious
what or who motivates you to keep going
tell me about that person in the
comments I want to take a quick minute
to talk about a project that I've been
working on it's called the ladies
project now the ladies project is a
community especially for women who are
learning English and what makes this
community so special and why you might
be interested to join it yourself is
that our goal is not to push you to sit
exams or to get another certificate our
goal is to inspire you to build
confidence and to keep you motivated and
to transform you into the confident
English speaker that you dream of being
and we do this by helping you to meet
other women who are just like you
we have conversation topics and lessons
that allow you to have really meaningful
interesting conversations every day
about things that are really important
to us as women not like stuff in a
textbook you know what I mean so the
ladies project is not an online course
it's not another language app it's a
community a social network with real
people amazing inspiring women from all
over the world we all want to have the
courage to speak in front of strangers
and to express our thoughts and our
opinions right but you know what
becoming a more confident English
speaker is not something that you can do
alone the latest project is a place
where women from lots of different
cultures can safely meet speaking
partners online and feel comfortable to
speak in English while they build
confidence together
one conversation at a time if you follow
this link up here you can take a tour of
the ladies project I'll show you what
it's like inside and explain a bit more
about the amazing benefits of being part
of this community to apply you do need
to be a woman you need to have an
intermediate English level or higher and
you'll also need to register a credit
card
the ladies project is a paid community
I'm completely thrilled to be finally
mentioning the ladies project here on my
channel it's something that I've been
working on for quite a while now
something that I'm really passionate
about and guys dudes I know that this
project is not for you but if you have a
female friend or a family member who you
want to help them to develop some
confidence using English then I'm sure
they'd love to hear about the ladies
project and I would love your help in
sharing it learning a new language using
big words speaking out loud all of this
takes courage
now courage is the ability to do
something even though it might be scary
or dangerous or difficult at times it
relates to your emotional strength to do
something that you are scared to do so
it's kind of similar to bravery hands up
if this is a little difficult to
pronounce there are quite a few
different ways to pronounce the o you in
English words I talked about them in
this lesson actually courage in the word
courage we use the R as in up vowel
sound car car courage this is the
strongest syllable so you need to make
sure that you're pronouncing it right
and the final consonant sound might be a
little tricky to the sound so to make it
I've got my tongue behind my teeth and
pushed up to the top of my mouth but the
edges of my tongue are pushed or pressed
up to seal the sound in okay before the
air gets released
g-g-gee notice the movement in my lips
as well courage
now the verbs have and find are often
used with the noun courage he has the
courage to do the right thing or she
found the courage to stand up and speak
at the rally now it's definitely worth
knowing the adjective courageous as well
courageous courageous she's a very
courageous woman and if someone doesn't
have the courage well you can of course
encourage them right encourage sounds
really similar to courage the
pronunciation is almost the same but the
meaning is a little different if you
encourage someone you give them hope and
confidence and support to achieve
something you don't just tell them that
they can do it but you help them to
believe that they can by encouraging
someone you can help them to find
courage that they need and again we
encourage someone to do something
they're cheering encouraged me to finish
the marathon even though I was exhausted
her parents encouraged her to study
medicine
so now let's expand a little something
or someone can be encouraging okay that
was an encouraging sign I think we're on
the right track you can also use the
noun encouragement encouragement and you
can use it with verbs like give and meet
I think she needs a little encouragement
her teacher should give her some
encouragement
so it's an uncountable noun right it's
really common to hear this word used
with a quantifier like some or any a
little or a lot and power to empower
someone is to give them the strength and
the confidence or the authority
to do something the ladies project
empowers women to speak English with
strangers even the word itself sounds
powerful notice that the first vowel
sound is actually a short e sound even
though it's spelled with an e it's not a
it's in power so the second syllable is
the stressed one and pow and that final
syllable is unstressed it's the schwa
sound and you don't hear me say that
and power and power and surely you've
noticed the word power in their right to
empower someone is to make them stronger
and more confident to do something and
it's often used to talk about giving
power or strength or control to someone
who doesn't have it but don't be
confused if you are empowered it doesn't
always mean that you are powerful these
two words have quite different meanings
so for example the CEO wants to empower
his management team to make strategic
decisions for the company what makes you
feel empowered or have you ever
empowered someone else in some way
you'll hear the e d and the ing
adjectives forms here so something can
be empowering and you can also feel
empowered okay and it's worth knowing
the noun empowerment as well empowerment
education is a tool for empowerment
these words and their word families are
challenging challenging to pronounce and
challenging to use these different types
of words correctly but if you're still
here you're still working hard then
you've got perseverance so someone with
perseverance keeps trying to succeed
even when it's difficult even when
things are hard they keep going when
they get stuck they find a way around it
when they fail they try again they've
give up so perseverance it really isn't
something that you can learn you either
have a really strong desire in you to
achieve something or you don't so I've
got a question for you do you have the
perseverance to become fluent in English
can you keep going even when it's
difficult since you're here and you're
practicing with me I know that you don't
give up easily
you have perseverance or determination
you're very determined or tenacity
you're very tenacious these are all
synonyms of perseverance let's focus on
the pronunciation for a second
perseverance perseverance that third
syllable is the stressed one vir vir
perseverance perseverance don't forget
that consonant sound at the end that
double consonant
it's perseverance perseverance now it's
really common to hear the verb persevere
in difficult situations right she chose
a difficult career path but she
persevered and she graduated with the
degree that she wanted can you think of
anything that you have persevered
through any of the mummer's out there
well you've persevered through
childbirth right
anyone who's failed there driver's
license
several times before maybe before they
finally got it will you persevere as
well so I hope this lesson has inspired
you to be a little more courageous with
your English vocabulary and that you're
motivated to use these words again soon
if you're feeling a little uncertain or
a little unsure about how to use some of
these words then practice by writing
some sentences in the comments below so
that I can check them for you
I've also got a little quiz over on the
English blog so you can test what you
learned here today
the link is in the description below
this video or there's a link somewhere
around right now and now it's time for
our next lesson see you in there