Repetition Vocabulary Text

Hello, this is AJ Hoge again. And this is the vocabulary lesson for "Repetition." Again,

pretty easy today. Let's talk about the vocabulary.

First, let's use that word distinction. I talked about it a lot in the main story so let's just

repeat it again, review it again, one more time. And again a distinction is an important

difference. It often has the idea of a small difference, not always but often. But it's a

difference, a distinction, something that makes two things different, so a small

difference, an important difference, a distinction.

Right, next is the word vital. Vital means very, very important. Repetition is vital.

Repetition is vital for mastery. It's very, very important for mastery. So again, vital, vital

means very important, even necessary. Vital is something that is very important and

necessary, so vital.

Next is the word intensity. I used it a lot, intensity. Intensity again means power. It

really has the idea of concentrated power, so doing something with a lot of focus,

concentration, a lot in a small time. So repetition with intensity means a lot of energy,

concentrated energy is what we're talking about in this lesson. When I say you need to

have repetition with intensity, you need to have repetition with concentrated energy,

concentrated power, emotional power. That's what we're talking about with intensity.

It's kind of the opposite of laziness.

The next word is imitate. I told you to imitate me, imitate my speaking. And as I said in

the main story, imitate means copy. It's a verb, to imitate, to copy. But really imitate is a

bit stronger. To imitate means to copy very closely, exactly. And we usually use it when

we're talking about people. So, for example, you can copy a piece of paper, you can

copy a paper. But you can't imitate a paper. We usually imitate people, something

that's alive. Something that's moving, we imitate it. So if you imitate a person, it means

you try to speak like them. You try to look like them. You dress like them, everything.

You try to be exactly like them. That's called imitating and the noun is imitation. That

process, that action is called imitation. And the verb is to imitate.

Next we have one of my favorite words, bullshit. Bullshit is a great word and we say this

word, bullshit, we say it when we totally disagree with something. When we think

something is foolish or crazy or wrong, it really shows that you think something is

wrong, totally wrong. So if somebody tells me, a student tells me “AJ, I already know

the past tense. I don't need to learn it anymore. I want to learn the future perfect

progressive." And I say "Bullshit, you're totally wrong. You don't already know the past

tense. Because you just made a mistake with it. You just said yesterday I go to the