The Vocabulary of Respect: 40 Ways to Improve Your English & Our World

This lesson can change your life! Join me and learn 40 special ways to thank people in English. Through respect, you can build better relationships, express real feelings, and show true appreciation in personal and professional life. See how to combine verbs and nouns to say: I respect your opinion, I value your friendship, I applaud your performance, I salute your vision, and much more. Build your English identity along with English skills. Start now! https://www.engvid.com/40-beautiful-w...

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In this lesson:
0:00 Show your respect and thanks in English
2:10 appreciate
10:07 respect
10:58 value
12:49 admire
14:28 salute
16:02 applaud

Transcript:
Hi, I'm Rebecca from engVid, and this is a very special lesson for me and I hope for you as well. In this lesson, I want to give you the vocabulary of respect. What does that mean? I want to show you several words that you can use to express your feelings of gratitude or thankfulness to someone or some people who you know have helped you and who have been kind to you, and so on. Now, you can always show your thanks and your gratitude to someone by simply saying "thanks" or "thank you", right? We can use these very basic words, and you should. That's absolutely fine. However, it can be even more meaningful to have some more words to follow up with after that or to find other ways in which to express these very important feelings and ideas to someone else.

Now, the vocabulary that we're going to look at today can be used in your personal life or in your professional life because we need to express this in all kinds of situations, whether it's to the people who are near and dear to us, our family, our friends, and so on, or whether it's to people we work with, our colleagues, our managers. We need to show and establish a kind of relationship where we express to others the gratitude and the good feelings that we have for things that they have done for us or for things or for who they are. So, I'm going to give you the vocabulary to do that. We're going to do that with six main verbs, and then we're going to look at lots of other expressions and collocations that you can combine these verbs with to express these ideas. Okay? So, I hope this lesson will interest you and that you will start to use this to express some very important feelings to others. All right.

So, let's begin here with one of the most commonly used words, and that is this one, "appreciate". Okay? So, that's a verb that many students do use. I see that in emails and so on, and many people will write something like, "Thanks. I appreciate it." So, what does it mean to appreciate something? It means that you are... You realize that it's important, you realize that it's relevant, and you recognize that it's special and you want to thank someone a little bit more, and so you appreciate that. Okay? You say, "I appreciate it." Now, you could simply say, "Thank you. I appreciate it", if you already described what it is that the other person did for you that you appreciate, that you understand, has value, has importance. Or you can go further with your... And I'm going to give you the vocabulary so that you can be really precise, and that's part of having a more educated vocabulary, a more advanced vocabulary, is being able to describe exactly what it is that you're showing your appreciation for. So, let's look at some possibilities. And you could actually start to include this when you're speaking or in an email. All right? So, let's look at that.

So, first of all, let's look at the pronunciation of this word. Okay? It's written like this, but it's pronounced like this, "ah-pree-shee-ate". Say it after me, "ah-pree-shee-ate", "ah-pree-shee-ate". The stress is on "ah-pree-shee-ate", so the stress is here. Okay? "Ah-pree-shee-ate", "I ah-pree-shee-ate that", "I ah-pree-shee-ate it". Okay? Next. If we're going to be more specific, then we could say something like this, "I ah-pree-shee-ate your help." That's a sentence by itself. "I ah-pree-shee-ate your assistance." "Assistance" is just a little more formal or business-like word for "help". Same thing. "I ah-pree-shee-ate your time." Somebody spent time to help you, to explain something to you, to advise you, to guide you, so you could add that. Or, "I ah-pree-shee-ate your input" or your contribution, okay? When somebody gave something to you, that added to something that you were working on, a project, a report, or something like that, and they gave you their thoughts, their ideas, or their information, or they took part in it, then that's their input, what they put in. Or, what they contributed, okay? Alright. […]