Thanks for having me on, Gideon. I thoroughly enjoyed it. My vote goes to Chat GPT! 😮

@freddiemercury8700

Жыл бұрын

What are you doing here Ben? 😉

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben. On the whole, your definitions where better than ChatGPT's. Some will suspect that you yourself are an AI Bot.

@freddiemercury8700

Жыл бұрын

Were not WHERE. Greetings from Casablanca

@ablessing891

Жыл бұрын

My vote goes to you.

@marylkap6498

Жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV If so, than he is The most charming version available 🥰

I'm 69yrs old. I knew and used ALL these words your discussing in junior high. I loved reading the dictionary starting 3rd grade. ABSOLUTELY loved and aced vocabulary tests. I find myself BEREFT over the lack of close friendships where you get together and actually visit.

What an excellent tandem today! Two of my favorite teachers sharing the screen again... You will never steal followers, in any case they will multiply after masterclasses like this! Great ending of the video, by the way... 🎆🎇 Hats off to both of you!

@AlexanderPoznanski

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they are masters! And not opponents for sure!

As a person deeply involved in studying Tolkien's texts, I've got to say that the vast majority of the list has its place there: Gollum is naturally leering at hobbits, especially Sam, and Fёanor declares: "No other race shall oust us!", meaning mortal Men vs. High Elves)

It’a such a pleasure to watch your videos, Gideon! And please keep the references to David Attenborough coming in, they’re hilarious!

How I love these guys sense of humour 😂 They've got a different kind of humour each and great on their own, but fantastic when combined. Makes learning much more fun. And learn we do!

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Very kind of you to say.

@marylkap6498

Жыл бұрын

Nicely put. And variety is the spice of life isn't it 😊

I think Chat GPT was correct in recommending use of "epistemology." We live in a time in which people living next door from one another are in completely separate "information bubbles." Consequently, I've become preoccupied with trying to figure out how it is that people determine what they believe is and isn't real. When someone expresses a belief about any current event that is contrary to my belief about the matter, I've started to ask them why it is they believe as they do. I'm almost always amazed at how diverse people are in how they reason. I think that differing epistemologies are the cause of people living in differing realities. Sorry for going off-topic and getting all serious, but I couldn't resist sharing. I enjoyed the discussion. Thanks.

@agatastaniak7459

Жыл бұрын

epistemology is a separate field within philosophy and if such things have caught your interest you might read some philosophers who over ages specialised in this is narrow field. We even have subfields. At my unversity we had for example separate courses in "epistemology of love". Youmay also venture to learn about subfield of sociology, very prominent in US at certain point. It's called "ethnomethodology" and yes, it was an attempt to investigate how humans "negotiate the meaning of the term" to a such degree that at certain point they mean the same thing by using the same term. As for "information bubbles", yes, there is a research into social media regarding this and in essence it tells us that people inside information bubbles mostly interact with their imagined self-reflection and select out information confirming their pre-existing bias. So it should be called "anti-social media". Or "self-focused media". ;-) We also call it "balkanization of social media" since we know it breads social violent divides and conflicts, just like social tension in the Balkans region that at some point almost overnight triggered a violent war. And this is why social scientists who investigate such social media bubbles talk about "balkanization of social media" and "balkanization of modern day society".

@kerryturner46

Жыл бұрын

@@agatastaniak7459 Especially love your comments on "anti-social media" and "imagined self-reflection." You have me also curious about the "balkanization" issue which I will search out additional information regarding. Thanks.

I consider both of you eminences in English teaching. You could certainly oust each other at being the best youtube English teachers. It was a real pleasure to watch. I've learned a lot and I am looking forward to another episode of you two together. You both gave good proof of a very fine sense of humour.

Thank you for such a pleasant guest, Gideon! Ben is a very polite, intelligent, modest and very kind person, it is felt in his every look, in every word.

@ablessing891

Жыл бұрын

I defo agree!

Guys, I love English KZread videos, but never when they are longer than 10 to 15 minutes. This is one is an exception! Very very well done! Don't hesitate to reiterate the experience :-) And Gideon is really right: using Latin/Greek origin words as advanced voc is pretty useless for watchers whose first language is from Latin origin, so the chosen list is really "To The Point" ;-)

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks I'm glad to liked the (extremely long) video. Yes, there is no point in giving "advanced" words that are the same in English and most languages.

Thank you, Gideon and Ben! I think it was a great, fruitful collaboration! I've enriched my vocabulary thanks to your splendid dialogue! Oh, I forgot Chat GPT, thanks to it too!

Ben - I admire your responses! Plus your sense of humour. It's kind of shy and always expressing the main idea in a delicate manner. Love it 😊

I'm not a native English speaker but last week I used the word "wistful" to good effect in a twitter dialogue. "Flabbergasted" is another word I like to use from time to time. 😁 @quiver: In German that word (second meaning) is called "Köcher" and we have the saying "noch einen Pfeil im Köcher haben" = "to have one more arrow in the quiver" when, for instance, you almost (but not quite) run out of arguments.

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I didn't know it came from German

@johansoderberg9579

Жыл бұрын

It may not... They say Köcher. Could it be French?

@seanparker5595

Жыл бұрын

Quiver can informally be used in English to mean a set, where an owner would select from the set. For example, cyclists sometimes talk about their bikes as a 'quiver', where they have a specific bike for a specific purpose." I added a gravel racing bike to my quiver for my forest rides".

You both are brilliant! Thanks for the outstanding content.

In some cases, the difficult words are synonyms of easier words, eg. dearth/lack. A classic example is hate/loathe/detest/abhor/despise. The wealth of synonyms is partly caused by the collision of English, French, Norse and Latin.

Thanks as you were both amusing and enlightening, a combo hard to beat. Much obliged

Two dapper English teachers in the same video!!! Is it Christmas?

Great video! Especially loved the game at the end 😂

get a room you two ! good to see our teachers having a good time

I'm thrilled to see you both of my masters in English!! You are impressively amazing. Many thanks for all of your splendid videos. Cheers from Mexico!! 👋🏼🇲🇽

Impressive. Well done, both of you! 🙂

I have already jotted down some of those words in my word list but you have added a few to them. Love you both teachers! Amazing! Greetings from Bogotá Colombia

A thoroughly enjoyable video. Thank you!

You both are amazing!!! Love it🥰

Thank you both💚

I had read these words before but as a non- native speaker I didn’t recall the meaning of about half of them. The dia-(tria-)logue helped me towards a more in-depth understanding of the use and what might be called the “word sphere” of these words. I took some notes: to quiver: Quakers may have quivered a tycoon: Scott Fitzgerald: "The last Tycoon" luddites: Manual workers who destroyed upcoming engines for fear of losing their living and were executed by the British military. In German: "Maschinenstürmer".

Brilliant teachers. So intelligent funny and generally likable.

Thank you so much! Very useful lesson 👍 ❤

Great, great, great. As a subscriber of both channels, I am very happy to watch you together

Thank you so much for this enriching collaboration!! Greetings from Argentina.

You, teachers, are wonderful !!! Special jokes from you are really helpful in diving into English. I'd like to tell my thoughts about word "hapless". It is easily could be understood and remembered for beginners if we join two not advanced words together: "happy" and "less".

I truly savored your video, my esteemed professors, especially for that unmistakable dash of quintessential British humor you embellished it with. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, I know what you're thinking, and you're right. I did have a little help from ChatGPT in creating this comment. 🤣"

@historyandscienceisinteres7082

10 ай бұрын

hahah, yeah, this comment is written quite poshly.

Great to see the two of you together. Can a Catch-22 situation be a quandary? To have a foretaste of something... to relish?

Oh thanks, in littature I already met the words to ransom and to quiver... we need words like that to read more in Engish... very helpfull for a french. Thanks

Interesting.. Even Ben has difficulties with some C1, C2 words. Overall, excellent lesson! Always learn new words in context. Will have that watched full but in small portions.

Thanks ❤❤❤

I like a lot your courses. Thank you ! My problem that I don’t understand oral English without subtitles :-/

Thank you. 🙋🍀🍀🍀🇵🇱

ChatGPT will never replace our favourite KZreadrs 😉 this was another stellar video, thank you so much 😇 and you really spoilt us: nearly an hour 😍 "Rocky Tycoon" 😂😭 I’ll think of Ben everytime I’ll listen to this song for a good while!! Weirdly enough, Rocky Racoon has the name "Gideon" mentioned in it

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like the video. Yes, I'm aware of the Gideon ('s bible) reference in the song. Nice one Paul.

@agatastaniak7459

Жыл бұрын

The difference between human teacher and ChatGPT is that AI will throw at you at random all kinds of strange words whereas a living native speaker in the flesh will converse about what is relevant to you as a person and will respond to what natives would say in such a context. Language models do use entire lingustic corpus what does not mean that it's spoken register or even that it comes from a modern and common usage. Good rule of thumb? If ChatGPT suggest it but your human native speaker cannot define it off the top of their head , you probably do not have to try to memorize this word and might ask for something more useful instead.

On the word bereft, there’s a sense that the thing that’s missing ought to be there. When you discussed the word Dearth it highlighted this aspect of bereft for me because dearth seems more straightforwardly a lack or absence of something, while bereft implies that there’s something concerning or wrong with the absence of a specific thing - perhaps this relates to the other way we use bereft when discussing the loss of a loved one

Hello best teachers!! Here on this channel we are updated with the tools that can help, I'm going to play with ChatGPT, the words are really new, writing down each one of them in my notebook, Gideon you are more Advance than any app, amazing video, congratulations to the two teachers, come back here more!🤠🤓❤

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

We (ChatGPT and I) chose vocabulary that was advanced but useful. Ben explained things splendidly. I'm glad you liked the video

@isabelatence7035

Жыл бұрын

​@@LetThemTalkTV I agree with you, Ben was amazing...

@johansoderberg9579

Жыл бұрын

Ransack is indeed Norse. We still say rannsaka in Norway and Sweden, a word we find in the Edda and use in the exact same way still today. "Att rannsaka sig själv" - "to ransack oneself", a healthy but not always comfortable self exam, is maybe the most frequent use of it today.

Both of you were dapper and you drew

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

thanks. Very diplomatic

Thanks Gideon and Ben! Just a curiosity: what's that platinum record behind Ben?

Fantastic! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! Epistemology! House and book! Don't like it? Epistemology again!

Hapless: In on of the Farseer books there appears a orphaned boy called Hap (short for hapless).

I love you man.

Hi guys. I m in the? 2 thirds and must say my retentjon wishes you d have started with the usage first and then followed with définitions. BTW I wish you d mention éd towards x untoward and I knew the archer's quiver better than shiver since I played Adom. PS how the Ham came to West? Keep up the banter.

This is something new to me. I never knew there was such a thing as a an english language test...

@OceanChild75

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you do get ask for one to join British university (if you aren’t British), to apply for a visa to live in the UK or to apply for British citizenship

@nHans

Жыл бұрын

If you're already living and studying in an English-speaking country-such as the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand-then I suppose it's not a big deal. Otherwise, let's say you're from a non-English-speaking country (such as India). If you want to move to an English-speaking country-for higher studies, work, or emigration-you'll most certainly have to pass an English language test. Examples of such tests are TOEFL, IELTS, CELPIP etc.

Ah! The boys are back in town ! What a sensational pleasure ! I must watch this when I get to me gaff gaffers!

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Not to be missed. It's a treat!

@freddiemercury8700

Жыл бұрын

As EVER

Quell has certainly softened over the centuries from "kill" to "diminish". It does still have the kill meaning for those with a historical understanding of English. For example, "to quell a riot" certainly leans to its more martial meaning, though the authorities and their lawyers (barristers? I'm American) might disagree.

40:32 I think I'll have to correct you on this one. Technologies like knitting are not the least disliked by Luddites. Technologies that replace manpower with machine power are.

@hglundahl

Жыл бұрын

The Luddites had a counterpart in France, the Jacquerie, which was more successful, for the moment, and where France to this day is more handicraft and small business friendly than England.

This is such a useful channel where you can learn advanced vocabularies and have fun at the same time. Danke😊

I think epistemology is the most important discipline to know and study. I love it. Surprised it gave u the word 😮 hehe. Don't know why tho. Video is amazing thank you.

coming home at midnight, ransacking the fridge

As a French person, To "oust" makes me think of the phrase "ouste !" which means "get out of here!" in French. My grandmother kept saying that when, for example, she wanted the cats to get out of the house or when she wanted to do the housework and wanted everybody to get out of the room she was going to clean. So, to "oust" seems even more easy to understand and remember for me. Do you think it could come from the French?

He quivered uncontrolably when he came face to face with a bear in forest and discovered there were no more arrows in his quiver.

Hello Gideon! Erik here from Sweden. Just had to comment on "to ransack" ("att rannsaka" in Swedish (pronounced run with a rolling r + sark (silent r) + a short ah! 😊). In Swedish "rannsaka sig själv" (to ransack oneself) is often used, especially in Christendom. When you do this you dig deeply within yourself, soul-searching, to try to find out if you have behaved badly in some way. Often you have been criticised, and you are yourself unaware that you have been at fault.

@agatastaniak7459

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the insight. I'm not a complete newbie to Swedish but haven't known this one yet. Interesting.

You guys are really cool.

Gideon,you are my idol!

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

you're too kind.

@LetThemTalk TV Dear Gideon, dear Ben, with two great minds thinking alike, heaven is an anglistic ; )) place on earth. Strolling through this sidereal hour we couldn't be happier. From 🦋 M. with love

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

May thanks. I'm so pleased you liked it.

@madamecoeurdemontespan1712

Жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV You are amazing, thank you so much! 👋🌹👋

Well, I use the word epistemology and ontology combined with some tautology from time to time.

Cette vidéo m'a donné le goût des mots en anglais.

Luddite [41:56]. I associate the noun w someone willing to use violence to express his intense opposition to tech in general, or to a particular item.

Aloof [45:55]. Socially distant with a connotation of superiority.

On this time it is a draw I guess. You both were pretty good in the game)

I am Czech and from several examples of translation to my language I understand the word loathe more like despise. Am I correct? Thank you.

@michaelduffy6874

Жыл бұрын

Loathe means hate, as they said. Despise has the added meaning of feeling contempt.

@agatastaniak7459

Жыл бұрын

Loathe is often used as "I absolutely loathe something" and it is much stronger than "despise". Loathe signals "I have aversion towards it", "I avoid it at all cost". Or " I feel repulsion towards it". And repulsion can even make you throw up, so "loathe" signals even a violent physical negative response to something.Whereas "despise" is more about moral judgement. It means very strongly that you morally or ethically disapprove it. That people who do it should meet with contempt. Compared to this "loathe" is a much stronger and more deeply rooted hatred towards people doing this. It's like you can say "I despise racists" and it's a moral judgement- it is wrong and I disapprove it. But when you say " I absolutely loathe racists" than you say "I feel deeply rooted hatred towards them/ I hate them guts/ I feel like throwing up whenever I see a racist". The word "racist" used as an example of any social phenomenon that humans may feel strongly about. Both "loathe" and "despise" can be used to refer to anything or anyone. So both to things and humans and other living creatures.

Thank you both for this intelligent banter, I would imagine the word "quandary" originally came from the direction to take the four compass points and it seems a little strange that we can use it to decide two choices. Just "sayin" :-)

Great- I was exposed to much of these words “in the wild” but never understood the nuances. Hapless, particularly.

In my case is the other way around as I am a Let them talk subscriber😊

44:07 distanct 🤣 Gideon, I think I know why your own viewers frequently vote against you. See, as the host, you choose the format of the competition. You know the material in advance. Your collaborator doesn't-to them, it's a surprise quiz. So your viewers-out of an inherent sense of fairness-discount your performance and award your collaborator a handicap. Now you could make it fair by bringing on a neutral third party to conduct the competition-with material that neither of you has seen before. At which point, it's no longer a friendly, low-budget podcast-we've moved into high production cost game show territory. What a quandary!

❤

I think bereft and bereaved are not exactly synonyms. Bereaved means suffering the loss of a loved one. Yes, bereft means "deprived of something", so it is used in a different context.

“you see me shiver with anticipation” (dr frank’n furter)

Yes Ben, it wasn't the other commuters you were wrestling with, it was the transport system itself, was it not?

Excellent video, though I think that if you do “loathe” it’s important to also do “loath” as so many people get the two confused. Obviously chat gpt did not agree.

Lived in London for over 20 years and nearly 30 years in the UK. Never heard "to eke out" being said ever. "Dearth" & "leer" are also rare. It feels to me that they would only be used by someone who'd want to show off or put a particular literary emphasis in their speach. I reckon C2 level is probably higher than the language of many native speakers. I've heard you saying in passing "West Ham is a bit of an undetdog". Good word - "underdog". Would it be also a C2 level?

Love UK accent

A list of the 10 words in a pinned comment would have well satisfied my curiosity. There's no way I'm going to spend an hour on 10 words I already know well.

4 of 20... Damn!

The place had been ransacked thoroughly if not expertly. Drawers stood out, their contents strewn on the floor; the bed had been stripped of clothing, ... Dashiell Hammett, Nightmare Town

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the quote. It certainly seems appropriate in a crime scene context

I guess, the word 'untoward' is also used in regard with a personality, and does have some negative hue in it

I'm in quandary about employment

Quell- to quiet down

These are the most advanced words? I'm just a dumb American, but I already knew these words, and some of these I don't really consider to be advanced. Plz, don't pick apart my English. My father was Sicilian, and his family mainly lived in bayou country in Louisiana, so they had Cajun accents. My mother came from West Virginia where a lot of olden English is still expressed. I grew up in the New Orleans area, and many outsiders find my accent sounds like that of a New Yorker. I will say this. I find your channel quite interesting! Thank you!

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@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Dinner sorted

interstin newspeak XD I finally heard how to say Chelsea XD

This is Regarding your difficulty with making ChatGPT give you the specific answer you seeked. While ChatGPT will have memory of what you asked before, it is not always the best at using that information and thus can turn into a loop like you experienced, if I am not getting exactly what I want I will make a completely new sentence and will list the things ChatGPT shouldn't do separated by commas. this is what I told ChatGPT: "Make me a list of 20 advanced C1 and C2 words, do not include any latin and greek words, only give me Anglo-Saxon words." And the result was this: "Acquire Belligerent Circumspect Defiant Eloquent Ferocious Gracious Hesitate Indignant Jovial Keen Lament Melancholy Noble Obedient Persevere Quaint Resilient Serene Tremendous" Now I'm not sure if all these words are actually C1 or C2 level, and uppon asking ChatGPT about this it said that it can't be sure about this and a professional should be asked.

I thought quiver indicated a physical movement whereas someone's voice would quaver...

Listeners are the winners

Thanks for the support of Ukraine ) Great bracelet!

People quiver but there voices quaver.

I've really relished watching this video.

For sure, we need a human teacher for C1 C2 exmans, and for real life too! 😂

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Human here. Thanks

@patricial.sabbatella3716

Жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV 😂🛸🤩

@cavesalamander6308

Жыл бұрын

@@LetThemTalkTV Is it true? I thought that all this was AI's deep fake! I have to take a course of psychotherapy... No, it's better to give someone a course of psychotherapy!

By the way, Gideon was the winner this time.

Shoplifting is rife in California.

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

I'll remember to beef up the security in my shop in L.A.

A Quiverfull of Arrows, a book by Jeffrey Archer.

The wolf was leering at the Little Red Riding Hood. ???

@LetThemTalkTV

Жыл бұрын

Nice example.

Luddites fought with exploitation and turned in helpless fury against the machines introduced in the industry to replace workers...

21 if I can count

One star , another star .the Milky way owes gratitute to its offspring for teaching other emerging stars