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Welcome to the Sl-tastic program, The English we speak.

Hello, I'm Wang Fay.

This is our word-tastic program where you learn the latest English-tastic phrases.

Yes, and we hope you have a learning-tastic time with us today.

Finn, sorry for interrupting you, but why do you keep adding Tastic to all these words?

Oh, yeah, sorry, Wangfei.

I should have said, Tastic is our new word or should I say suffix for the day?

Mmm a suffix is something you add

onto the end of another word to change the meaning.

That's right. So when we add

Tastic what does that mean? Well it's kind of related to the word

fantastic. So when you add Tastic to a word, for example the word slang, it means

fantastic in terms of slang, okay? So English tastic means fantastic in terms of English.

And learning,

tastic means fantastic in terms of learning.

It does, absolutely. Let's hear a couple more examples

Did you hear Brittany's new song? Yes, it's poptastic. I love it.

Did you have a good time yesterday?

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