Ginormous

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🗓️ 23 December 2013

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The glass and steel buildings of modern Shanghai are ginormous. What does this mean?

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC learning English.
0:03.0	For more information and our terms of use go to BBCworldservice.com
0:09.0	forward slash podcasts
0:12.0	The English we speak.
0:15.0	From BBC Learning English. Hi, I'm Finn, and today in the English we speak, we're in Faye Faye's home country, China.
0:33.0	Well come, welcome.
0:35.0	What do you think, Finn?
0:36.0	Oh, well, Faye, there are so many skyscrapers.
0:41.0	Lots of tall buildings. Impressive, aren't they? Oh absolutely. Look at that one. It's
0:47.0	gigantic. Oh, the Jim Mao Tower, yes, it's pretty gigantic. Oh, and this one is really enormous.
0:55.8	Yes, it is.
0:57.0	The Oriental Pearl Tower is enormous.
1:00.0	Oh, and this one is absolutely gi-normous.
1:05.0	Jai what?
1:07.0	Finn, you just make that word up?
1:10.0	No, seriously, gi-normous is a word. It's very informal and means, well, gigantic and enormous,
1:20.0	a kind of a combination of both.
1:23.0	Gigantic, enormous,
1:26.0	and you're right, the World Financial Center is
1:30.0	gi enormous.
1:32.0	Can we go to the top of the tower? Sure. While we take the lift up,
1:37.0	listen to these examples.
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