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Learning English Conversations

Lit

Learning English Conversations

BBC

Education, Language Learning

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Learn an informal word to say something is amazing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from BBC Learning English.

0:03.0

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0:06.0

Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me,

0:10.0

Jai.

0:12.0

And me, Neil, you look tired today. Are you okay? I am. Did you watch the stream of the new fishing Dragons game last night.

0:22.8

No, it was too late for me.

0:25.6

Was the game any good?

0:27.2

It was LIT.

0:28.7

What do you mean LIT?

0:30.9

The stream was on fire? Or the dragons catch fish by lighting them on fire. What are you talking about?

0:37.0

I set lit, which means that something is amazing. I set that the game was amazing.

0:44.0

Ah, that's what you meant by Litt.

0:47.0

And do the dragons catch fish with fire?

0:50.0

Of course not. They use the power of their mind. Let's talk more about it after these examples.

0:57.0

John's new car is lit, it's so amazing.

1:04.1

I joined a virtual dance party last night and it was lit.

1:08.3

There was a DJ and everyone had an amazing time.

1:12.4

Erica said that new film was lit, but I thought it was a bit disappointing.

1:16.0

I didn't like the plot or characters.

1:21.0

You're listening to the English we speak from BBC Learning English and you're talking about the expression

1:26.8

LIT which is used to say that something is amazing.

1:31.6

Yes, that's right. For example, that video game we played is lit. You can also say that something is fire with the same meaning.

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