Michelle Kaplan

I'm excited for what's to come.

Yeah.

So guys, you see some words or expressions can be the same, but have different connotations depending on how we use them.

But some are mostly completely, you know, more black and white, positive or negative.

So, and the same thing goes for actual idioms too, not just single vocabulary words.

But for example, a positive, a word with a positive connotation is cheerful, negative connotation, rude.

Right.

What do we have?

All right.

So synonyms, I would say implication, right?

So what are you implying?

What are you actually, like, it's like the clues that you're giving, right?

Whereas antonyms would be like denotation, like the actual meaning, just the word.

Okay.

Yeah.

Or literal meaning, right?

That's just focusing on the actual, what is the definition?

I think this is one of the...

Yeah, I think this is one of the core pillars of our podcast really is like, and I actually remember like when I was getting my master's degree in TESOL, like the first day, I remember the teacher talking about like, what is it to teach a word?

And, you know, one thing is like the basic definitions.