How to Sound Clever in English?

How to Sound Clever in English?
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How to Sound Clever in English?

Unless there’s a good reason to use it….

….confabulating with pompous lexis and jargon does little to elucidate your verbalisations. On the contrary, my little homosapius rex, utilising such oral ejectamenta simply serves to obfuscate your communications.

There! I said it!

And it's true.

But unfortunately, a lot of people believe the opposite to be true...

“Believe what to be true, Julian??” you ask?

Quite. You probably didn't have a clue what I said a moment ago.

And that’s because I peppered my sentence with obscure and pompous sounding bullshit in an attempt to sound clever.

Bad idea.

Daniel Oppenheimer, a professor at Princeton University, ran a series of experiments. He wanted to know which were considered more intelligent: Simple essays, or essays that used complicated vocabulary.

In every case, the simple essays were considered more intelligent.

In fact, the more complicated the vocabulary an essay had, the lower it was rated.

Simply put...

The essays that were written in clear, easy to understand language were, well, clear and easy to understand. The key ideas and message contained in the essay weren't hidden behind a wall of incomprehensible crap.

Want to sound clever when you speak English?

Three things have to be true….

The language you use needs to be clear and understandable. Your message needs to be well thought out and intelligent. And the way you deliver the message needs to be appropriate to the person you’re talking about.

I call this the “ LKC Triangle” and you’ll learn all about it in my book, Master English FAST.

In this hunk of papery goodness, l show you how to learn the language you need and use it effectively to communicate your ideas in a way that’s appropriate to the people you’re talking too.

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[maestro]

You're completely right. My biggest problem about speaking is, that I always try to use more complicated words. I don't know how to get rid of that.

[fahada]

Many thanks to you Julian for this useful note

[ΕιρήνηΑθηναίου-ηι]

You are the best teacher i ve ever seen ....
You ve helped me so much with my english accent ...but i still have a very very very big problem! I am afraid to speak english to other people i feel shy and when i have to communicate with someone that come from abroad i forget anything!! What should i

[maximogil]

Where can i get that book? I'd love to read it, and become clever and a little bit smarter... I love English as a second lenguage, and I am completely sure that I will love this book... BTW it was a very good Congrats my mate, and I'll be watching your videos....

[rauln]

In my own language I tend to speak in complex words, and Let me tell you I am very intelligent. It's normal to me in fact some teacher said to me "you speak in a philosofical manner", The point here is to be able speak in a proper way in diferente situations, I cannot speak in a job or explain techniques terms with simple words because it´s not profesional.

[---xdot]

I understand what saying english, but I couldnt speak fluently as I'm thinking😞 what should i do

[EnglishwithDanielX]

Just practice the 🇬🇧accent.😉 great video!

[anwar]

hello teacher
i have a question
what's term that called for all of these( noun adjectives verbs tenses models and so
i hope u'll answer

[abdishakur]

What's homosapious? Please help guys
Coz I didn't find sufficient answer in the Google!

[sowminis]

Iam indian., , iam not understand your laguage .Why sir?

[JameBlack]

but I'm not clever why should I sound so?