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English Club

Automatic English For The People

Emotional Mastery 2 Vocabulary Text

Hello. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Emotional Mastery 2." Let's get started.

Now are you smiling? Is your posture strong? Are your shoulders back? Is your head

up? Are you moving? You should be. Get in a strong peak emotional state right now

before we begin. Okay, let's start.

Acquisition, the word acquisition. I talk about language acquisition. Acquisition means

to get something and keep it. So to get and keep. So language acquisition means you

get language, in other words you learn it. You get it and you keep it. So the idea is that

you don't lose it. And sometimes, some teachers talk about language learning and

language acquisition. And the idea is that learning is more temporary, for example, in

school for a test you learn English, you take the test then you forget it. That's language

learning. Language acquisition means you get the English, you keep it, you never

forget it. So acquisition, to get and keep something.

Another word we use in this lesson is anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety is nervousness or a

feeling of stress. So anxiety, a feeling of nervousness or a feeling of stress. Anxiety, it's

the feeling, it's a noun. Now the adjective is anxious. So you might say "I am anxious"

or "I feel anxious." It means I feel worried, I feel nervous, I feel stressed. I feel anxious.

So anxiety is the noun, anxious the adjective.

Our next word, vividly. I say imagine your future vividly. Imagine your goal vividly.

Vividly means clearly, colorfully. It has this idea of very powerfully, right? You can

imagine your future. Let's say, imagine yourself speaking English very well. Maybe the

picture is kind of small and dark, not clear. But if I say imagine your future vividly, you

see yourself speaking English but it's a big, clear, colorful picture. So vividly has this

idea of colorfully. The adjective is vivid. Vivid, we sometimes talk about a vivid picture,

a vivid photograph. Very colorful, clear, strong photograph, a vivid photograph.

Alright, another word we have in this lesson is visualize. You probably know visual.

Visual means related to seeing, related to the eyes. To say "I am a visual person"

means I like to look at things. My emotions are strongest when I look. So visual,

related to seeing or about seeing, about your eyes. To visualize is a verb, it's an action.

And it really means to imagine. It means to see in your head. So visualize your future

means see your future in your head. I can say "Visualize a hamburger right now" it

means see a hamburger in your head, visualize. Visualize.

Another word we have in this lesson is comprehension. I talk about listening

comprehension. Comprehension means understanding, very simple. So listening

comprehension means listening understanding. It means you understand what's